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Elkinton, Howard W. (Howard West), 1892-1955

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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-

Elkinton Family Papers

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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

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Dukhobors -- Canada -- History -- Sources 1
Quaker businesspeople 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- Relations -- Dukhobors -- History -- Sources 1
Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1