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O. Edward Janney (Oliver Edward) Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-072
Overview
Dr. O. Edward Janney was a prominent Quaker doctor from Baltimore who was active in many of the social reform movements of his time. He worked with the Society for the Suppression of Vice in Baltimore and labored in the causes of temperance, woman suffrage, inter-racial relations, peace, and other reforms. In 1907, Dr. Janney gave up the practice of medicine to devote his energies full time to reform activities. The collection contains correspondence (1874-1945), diary (1914), memoirs,...
Dates:
1874-1945
Elizabeth Marsh Jensen papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1154
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, articles and speeches relating to the service work and interests of Elizabeth Marsh Jensen in particular, as well as of her husband, Daniel Jensen.Collection includes biographical information about EMJ (including EMJ's own summary description of her life written in 1987), and her work, beginning as a teacher, and especially her work for the American Friends Service Committee in the U.S. and Mexico. Materials document the Jensens' life and work on ranches in...
Dates:
1912-1989
Jones-Cadbury family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1172
Abstract
The Quaker families of Jones and Cadbury were interrelated with many other Quaker families in America and England. This collection provides a rich source of genealogical and historical information, not only on the families Jones and Cadbury, and especially Mary Hoxie Jones (1904-2003) and Emma Cadbury Jr. (1875-1965), but also, significantly, Warder family, as well as Bartram, Brown, Carter, Foulke, Kaighn, Lowry, Mennell, Pearsall, Shinn and Shipley family materials.
Dates:
ca. 1770-1994
Margaret E. Jones Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-167
Overview
Margaret E. Jones (1895-1984), daughter of William B. and Phebe Jones, was a birthright Quaker member of Moorestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in New Jersey. She was involved with the American Friends Service Committee for many years, first as a staff member, then serving on the Board of Directors. The collection contains scrapbooks kept by Margaret E. Jones while she was in Europe involved in relief work in 1933 and again from 1958-1959. Includes a number of photographs of places and people,...
Dates:
1937-1969
Rufus M. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1130
Abstract
Rufus Matthew Jones was born on January 25, 1863 in South China, Maine. His parents were Edwin and Mary Gifford Hoxie Jones. Their family had been Quakers, and he was brought up in a spartan and religious household. By his own estimate, Rufus M. Jones was deeply influenced as a child by his Aunt Peace Jones for her life of Quaker homily and, as a young man, the spirituality and philosophical powers of oratory and discourse of his other aunt and uncle, the ministers Eli and Sybil Jones. He...
Dates:
1860 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1997
Kaltenbach Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-291
Overview
The collection consists primarily of letters written by John E. Kaltenbach to his parents, Edward C. and Ethel Kaltenbach, from Wesleyan University, Yale Divinity School, and while working as the acting director for the Scattergood Hostel for European Refugees in Iowa. Also a small number of letters from his sister, Linda Kaltenbach, while a student at Swarthmore College.
Dates:
1933-1941
Leonard Stout Kenworthy diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-039
Scope and Content note
This collection is composed of the single photocopy of Leonard Stout Kenworthy's "Quaker Berlin Diary." In his entries, Kenworthy describes his experiences in Germany during World War II working with German Quakers to assist unaffiliated German Jews to leave Germany. Entries provide details about meetings he attended and records correspondence he wrote and received as letters and telegrams.
Dates:
1940-1941
Kite-Bassett Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-080
Overview
The Kite and Bassett families were Orthodox Quakers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Lynn, Massachusetts, respectively. James Kite was born in 1808, the son of Benjamin and Rebecca Kite of Philadelphia. In 1837 he was granted a certificate to Salem Monthly Meeting in Massachusetts to marry Lydia B. Rodman, widow of Caleb Rodman and daughter of Isaac and Ruth Bassett of Lynn. James and Lydia had eight children, viz. Ruth, James Rodman, Eliza B., Rebecca, Isaac C. Bassett, Hannah B., Lydia...
Dates:
1837-1930
Robert Levering Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-080
Abstract
Robert E. Levering is a pacifist and Quaker. He has been the co-author of Fortune magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," and a speaker on workplace trends and management strategies aimed at improving workplace productivity. Levering is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social Change.
Dates:
1967-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bradford Lyttle Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-079
Overview
Bradford Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec - ...
Dates:
1954-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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