Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971

American Friends Fellowship Council Records

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG4-004

Overview The American Friends Fellowship Council had its origin in the Fellowship Committee of the American Friends Service Committee. Founded in 1933, its primary purpose was to foster an increased interest in Quakerism throughout the United States and to draw all Friends groups into closer sympathy and fellowship. The Fellowship Council merged with the Friends World Committee, American Section, in 1954. The collection includes correspondence and administrative records, minutes, financial...

Dates: 1933-1954

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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

Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG1

Overview A Friends World Conference Committee, sponsored by the Fellowship Council of the American Friends Service Committee, was established in 1932 to promote better understanding among Friends world wide. The representatives at the Second World Conference of Friends, held at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Pa., in 1937, approved the establishment of a continuing international organization, a Friends World Committee, to promote international contacts and cooperation among Friends. In 1958, it...

Dates: 1933-2010

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

American Friends Fellowship Council Records

Elkinton Family Doukhobor Papers

Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records

Anna Bassett Griscom Papers

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