Truman, George
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1798 - 1877
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Overview
Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates:
1815-1880
Friends Historical Library Collection of Sermons
Collection — Othertype MSS-047
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-047
Overview
Collected sermons received from miscellaneous sources.
Dates:
1737 - 1870
Filtered By
- Subject: Society of Friends -- Sermons X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Abolitionists 1
- Antislavery movements 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Church work with Indians -- Society of Friends 1
- Congregational Friends 1
- Freed persons -- Virginia 1
- Freed persons -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Hicksites -- 19th century 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934 1
- Indians of North America -- Missions 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Virginia 1
- Sermons, American 1
- Slavery -- United States 1
- Social reformers -- 19th century 1
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
- Society of Friends -- History 1 + ∧ less
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