Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds) Holcombe Diaries
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the diaries (1904-1937) of Hadassah M.L. Holcombe (1891-1978), a Quaker educator who was a co-founder of the Friends Council of Education and served as Secretary of the Friends General Conference and Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Friends World Conference.
Dates
- Creation: 1904-1937
Creator
- Holcombe, Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds), 1891-1878 (Person)
- Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, Pa.) (Contributor, Organization)
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) (Contributor, Organization)
- Holcombe, Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds), 1891-1878 (Contributor, Person)
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Collection is open for research.
Copyright and Rights Information
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Biographical / Historical
Hadassah M.L. Holcombe (1891-1978) was a Quaker educator who was a co-founder of the Friends Council of Education and served as Secretary of the Friends General Conference and Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Friends World Conference. Hadassah Joanna Moore was born in 1891, the daughter of Robert Rowland and Margaret Gillingham (possibly Gittings. The former taken from Sandy Spring MM records) Tyson Moore of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting. She attended George School and graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1924. She married Morris E. Leeds, an Orthodox Quaker and member of Germantown Monthly Meeting, two years later. After his death in 1952, she married Raymond T. Parrot, and, later, Arthur N. Holcombe. Hadassah Holcombe taught mathematics at the Germantown Friends School for ten years, and, in addition to her other activities, served on the boards of Swarthmore College, Antioch, George School, Sidwell Friends, and Haverford College.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language
English
Overview
Hadassah M.L. Holcombe (1891-1978) was a Quaker educator who was a co-founder of the Friends Council of Education and served as Secretary of the Friends General Conference and Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Friends World Conference. Hadassah Holcombe taught mathematics at the Germantown Friends School for ten years, and, in addition to her other activities, served on the Boards of Swarthmore College, Antioch, George School, Sidwell Friends, and Haverford College. The collection contains her diaries from 1904-1937.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into two series:
- Biographical and genealogical
- Diaries
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Esther L. Cooperman, 1981
Subject
- Moore family (Family)
- Friends World Conference. Committee on Education (Organization)
Topical
- Quaker women -- Education
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Social service
- Quakers -- Societies, etc.
- Social service -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends
- Society of Friends -- Education
- Society of Friends -- Education
- Society of Friends -- Education
- Title
- An Inventory of the Hadassah M. L. Holcombe Diaries, 1904-1937
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1981
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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