Elkinton family
Family
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Mary G. Cary and John R. Cary papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-038
Overview
This collection includes letters, documents, and photographs of 18th, 19th, and early 20th century family members mostly of the Quaker Cary, Cope, Elkinton, Gilpin, Newlin, Stokes, and Waln families.
Dates:
1780-1920
Elkinton Family Doukhobor Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-133
Overview
The Doukhobors are a pacifist sect. They originated in Russia but were forced to emigrate to Canada in 1898 due to their refusal to bear arms for the Tsar. In the late 1930s their leader, Peter P. Verigin, created an organization known as the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ, also known as the Orthodox Doukhobors, which has maintained the tradition of Doukhobor cultural activities. The Elkinton Family, a prominent Philadelphia (Pa.) Quaker family, and other members of the Society of...
Dates:
1884-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Anna Bassett Griscom Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-053
Overview
Anna Bassett Griscom (Elkinton) (1889-1974) was a prominent American Quaker active in the peace movement. She served as Executive Secretary of the Friends General Conference, chairman of a committee to organize the Friends World Conference held at Swarthmore College in 1937, chairman of the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and was a founder of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She married J. Passmore Elkinton in 1931. The collection includes correspondence, speeches...
Dates:
ca. 1914-1962
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Northern District records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-030
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one volume of Mark Balderston's notes for the Monthly Meeting of Philadelphia for the Northern District during the year 1878. It includes a list of members at that time, an index, along with minutes (unknown whether the minutes are original or copied).
Dates:
1878
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- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Relations -- Dukhobors -- History -- Sources 1
- correspondence 1
- genealogies (histories) 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
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