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Quakers -- Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Wildman-White Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-128
Scope and Contents

This collection of legal documents, photographs, and genealogical material deals with several generations of Orthodox Quaker families in the Green Plain community of Clark County, Ohio, and in Raysville, Henry County, Indiana.

Dates: 1827-1973; Other: Date acquired: 09/04/2001

Willard Heiss Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-33
Scope and Contents

The Heiss Collection consists of extensive files on Quaker history and genealogy, as well as correspondence, photos, personal artifacts, and documents reflecting the lives of Quakers, especially in the Midwest and South. Photos include family, as well as landscapes. Correpsondence ranges from book companies, to family, to genealogical.

Dates: 1700-1986

William Dennis Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-26
Scope and Contents

This collection, assembled by Mary Wright Dennis of Dublin, IN consists of genealogical materials, photographs, correspondence, account books, and other documents of descendants of William Dennis (1767-1847), a Quaker of Randolph County, NC and Wayne County, IN, especially his grandson Wilson Dennis (1814-1904) of Wayne County, IN.

Dates: 1840-1990

William H. Coffin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-20
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence and reminiscences relating to Quaker history and Coffin genealogy, particularly the early Quaker settlers of Kansas.

Dates: 1833-1925

Willis B. Coale Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-129
Scope and Contents Willis Branson Coale (1885-1979) was a birthright Hicksite Friend, Congregational minister, English professor at the University of Hawaii, and genealogist. This collection documents his life and preserves material that he collected for Coale family history. The Coale Papers consist of two main groups of material. The first reflects the life of Willis B. Coale, and includes autobiographical writings, clippings, and published and unpublished materials on his life in Illinois, at Oberlin, and...
Dates: 1885-1977

Winslow Family Genealogical Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-119
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of two extensive typscript genealogies. The first was complied by Ellen Leiper Woolford Jones and is entitled Randolph Winslow, M.D., His Ancestry, Life, and Letters, 1952. The second was compiled by Randolph and Nathan Winslow prior to 1928 and is entitled a Brief Sketch of the Winslow Family. Included is extensive material on the Quaker Winslow family in Perquimans County, North Carolina.

Dates: Other: 1952

Wollaston-Bassett-White Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-163
Abstract

Correspondence, legal papers, genealogy, and photographs of six generations of the Wollaston, Bassett, White, and related families, Hicksite Friends of Salem County, New Jersey, and Harrisburg and Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1697-1950; Other: Majority of material found in 1790-1860; Other: Date acquired: 06/23/2010