Quakers -- Indiana
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Kirk family correspondence
This collection includes letters written by Thomas Kirk and his son Israel to their family in Pennsylvania as they moved first to Center Monthly Meeting in Ohio, and later to Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, Ind. The letters relate to family and local news and business. Two letters refer to the growing division in the Society, as the Hicksite controversy reaches Ohio Yearly Meeting.
Shaw Family Papers
Accounts, correspondence, indentures, and family papers which relate to the descendents of Samuel Shaw (1710-1781), Quaker farmer of Richland, Pennsylvania, and related families including Hill, Heacock, Foulke, and Rawlings. Some of his descendents moved to Ohio and Indiana. Letters from family members in Ohio give details of daily life and customs of Quaker families and sense of the hardships endured on the frontier.
Elwood Trueblood papers
This collection includes letters written to Elwood Trueblood regarding personal and meeting matters. Included are letters concerning Quaker philosophers on the issue.
Howard Haines Turner Papers
Howard Haines Turner (1909-1996) was a Quaker economist and educator who was active in a variety of social concerns, particularly in improving the justice system. He also had a lifelong interest in cooperative communities and worked in South Vietnam under the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
Ernest Votaw Family Papers
Aaron White Family Papers
Lawrence H. (Lawrence Hezekia) Williamson Papers on Conscientious Objection
Collection contains letters written by Lawrence Williamson to his family while at Camp Zachary Taylor in Lexington, Kentucky, and other related papers including the transcript of his court martial in 1918.
Winston-Clark Family papers
Approximately 500 letters (also a few clippings, poems and other items) of the related Clark and Winston families of Virginia and Indiana. Letters discuss family and friends, the small schools that many members of these families began in the Midwest, as well as comments on politics, slavery, religion, education, the Civil War and friends/family fighting in the Confederate army, and other topics.