Elkinton family
Family
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Mary G. Cary and John R. Cary papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-038
Abstract
This collection includes letters, documents, and photographs of 18th, 19th, and early 20th century family members mostly of the Quaker Cary, Cope, Elkinton, Gilpin, Newlin, Stokes, and Waln families.
Dates:
1780-1920
Elkinton Family Doukhobor Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-133
Abstract
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
Elkinton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-037
Abstract
Contains the papers of the Elkinton Family, a Quaker family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and its vicinity. Joseph Elkinton was born in Salem, New Jersey, in 1794 and settled in Philadelphia where he established a soap manufacturing business which eventually became the Philadelphia Quartz Company. He was involved with the Seneca Indians at the Quaker school at Tunesassa (Quaker Bridge), New York, where his oldest son, Joseph Scotton Elkinton, was born in 1830. The latter was a Quaker...
Dates:
ca. 1736-2002
Elkinton, Waring Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1239
Abstract
This collection includes information about multiple generations of the Elkinton and Waring families. It is concentrated on two generations: firstly, that of Howard West Elkinton (1892-1955) and Katharine Wistar Mason Elkinton (1892/3-1961), his wife, and secondly, that of their daughter, Theodora Elkinton (1927-) who married Thomas Waring (1921-2001). It is a story of life choices made by these Quakers: for Howard and Katharine Elkinton, to serve under the American Friends Service Committee...
Dates:
1815-2006
Anna Bassett Griscom Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-053
Abstract
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
Inazo Nitobe Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-107
Abstract
Inazo Nitobe (1862-1933) was a Japanese Quaker diplomat, agriculturist, and educator who sought to act as an emissary of understanding between Japan and Western nations. He was born in Morioka, Japan, in the waning days of feudal Japan and became a Christian during his studies in Sapporo. He was further educated at Tokyo University and in 1884 became one of the first Japanese students to study in the United States. He joined the Society of Friends in 1886, and in 1891, he married Mary...
Dates:
1890-1991
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Northern District records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-030
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one volume of Mark Balderston's notes for the Monthly Meeting of Philadelphia for the Northern District during the year 1878. It includes a list of members at that time, an index, along with minutes (unknown whether the minutes are original or copied).
Dates:
1878
Koozma J. Tarasoff photographs of visit to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-068
Abstract
Koozma J. Tarasoff (born 1932) is a scholar of the Doukhobors, a Spiritual Christian religious group of Russian origin with a sizeable community in Canada. This collection consists of black and white photographs taken by Tarasoff on a trip to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in March 1983. He photographed Quaker Meeting Houses and schools and prominent Quakers including E. Raymond Wilson and Laurama Pixton.
Dates:
1983-03
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- Quakers 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Conscientious objection 1
- Dukhobors -- Canada -- History -- Sources 1
- International relations 1
- International relations and culture -- Japan 1
- International relations social aspects 1
- Japan -- Social life and customs 1
- Peace 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Quaker businesspeople 1
- Quaker church buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Quakers -- History 1
- Quakers -- Japan 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Portraits 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Society of Friends -- Relations -- Dukhobors -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
- correspondence 1
- genealogies (histories) 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- minutes (administrative records) 1
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