Society of Friends
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin Collection
Collection
Identifier: FMS-1
Abstract
Correspondence, genealogy, autobiographical material, speeches, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting the lives of Charles F. and Rhoda M. (Johnson) Coffin, 1831-1917. Charles and Rhoda were Orthodox Quaker ministers with international reputations in prison reform. Charles was a banker in Richmond, Indiana, and the clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Orthodox Friends from 1857 to 1884.
Dates:
1831-1919; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1917
D. Elton Trueblood Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-115
Scope and Contents
The Papers of D. Elton Trueblood.
Dates:
1857-1995
David Huddleston Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-3
Scope and Contents
The David Huddleston Papers document the daily life and religious faith of a conservative Orthodox Friend in Wayne County, Indiana. They illuminate a period when most Midwestern Friends underwent significant changes in their ways of life and worship.
The Huddleston Papers include one folder containing correspondence concerning the acquisition and provenance of the collection, circulars advertising David Huddleston’s nursery, clippings concerning the Huddleston Inn operated by David...
Dates:
1872-1891; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1960
Elbert Russell Collection
Collection — Box 22
Identifier: FMS-8
Scope and Contents
The papers include correspondence, copies of his published writings, unpublished manuscripts, a large collection of handwritten sermon notes, and drafts of both his history of Quakerism and his autobiography.
Dates:
1871-1935
Five Years Meeting Sunday School Literature
Collection
Identifier: FRG-3
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Sunday School materials for Five Years Meeting and Friends United Meeting.
Dates:
1941-1959
Francis W. Thomas Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-25
Scope and Contents
The Thomas Papers include diaries, correspondence, essays, and sermon drafts illustrating the concerns and tendencies of Indiana Friends in this period. The diaries span the years of the Civil War.
Dates:
1860-1905; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1990
George N. Hartley Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-22
Scope and Contents
The Hartley Papers consist of a diary for 1869-1870, a sermon notebook, and miscellaneous papers reflecting Hartley's career. The largest single item is an account book spanning 1876-1930.
Dates:
1876-1930
Jessup-Carson-Littler Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-35
Scope and Contents
The Jessup-Carson-Littler Family papers consist of correspondence, legal papers, notebooks, autograph books, ledgers, and genealogical material on five generations of Quakers in Howard and Marion counties, Indiana. The collection reflects Quaker farm and religious life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1831-1984; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1997
Leland K. and Kathaleen Johnson Carter Papers
Collection
Identifier: FMS-34
Scope and Contents
The Leland K. and Kathaleen Johnson Carter Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, photographs, and genealogical material documenting the lives of a number of Quaker families in North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection is especially valuable for Quaker settlement in Indiana, the Conservative Separation of the 1870s among Orthodox Friends, and the work of the Friends Reconstruction unit in France during World War I. The...
Dates:
1700-1994; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1991
Leonard S. Kenworthy Papers
Collection — Box 9
Identifier: FMS-76
Scope and Contents
The Leonard S. Kenworthy Papers includes correspondence and drafts of writings reflecting Leonard Kenworthy's career.
Dates:
1928-1991