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Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Massachusetts Peace Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-020
Abstract The Massachusetts Peace Society was first formed in 1815, and a new organization reformed in 1911. The records of both groups have been combined here to form one archival collection. The Massachusetts Peace Society (MPS)was the second [third?] such society to form in America on December 28, 1815, organized primarily by Noah Worcester (1758-1837), a Unitarian minister. By 1819 the MPS had over 850 members, with branches established throughout the state and beyond. The MPS...
Dates: 1816-1917; Majority of material found within 1911-1917

George Nasmyth and Florence Nasmyth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-057
Overview

George W. Nasmyth was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. He dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. He died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920. Florence Nasmyth was a writer on peace issues.

Dates: 1911-1937

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  • Subject: Peace -- Societies, etc. X
  • Subject: Peace movements -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources X

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International cooperation -- History -- Sources 1
Internationalism -- History -- Sources 1
Internationalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifism -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources 1