Jones, Margaret E., 1895-1984

American Friends Fellowship Council Records

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG4-004

Overview The American Friends Fellowship Council had its origin in the Fellowship Committee of the American Friends Service Committee. Founded in 1933, its primary purpose was to foster an increased interest in Quakerism throughout the United States and to draw all Friends groups into closer sympathy and fellowship. The Fellowship Council merged with the Friends World Committee, American Section, in 1954. The collection includes correspondence and administrative records, minutes, financial...

Dates: 1933-1954

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG1

Overview A Friends World Conference Committee, sponsored by the Fellowship Council of the American Friends Service Committee, was established in 1932 to promote better understanding among Friends world wide. The representatives at the Second World Conference of Friends, held at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Pa., in 1937, approved the establishment of a continuing international organization, a Friends World Committee, to promote international contacts and cooperation among Friends. In 1958, it...

Dates: 1933-2010

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Margaret E. Jones Papers

Collection — Othertype RG5-167

Identifier: SFHL-RG5-167

Overview Margaret E. Jones (1895-1984), daughter of William B. and Phebe Jones, was a birthright Quaker member of Moorestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in New Jersey. She was involved with the American Friends Service Committee for many years, first as a staff member, then serving on the Board of Directors. The collection contains scrapbooks kept by Margaret E. Jones while she was in Europe involved in relief work in 1933 and again from 1958-1959. Includes a number of photographs of places and...

Dates: 1937-1969

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Gilbert MacMaster papers

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-1016

Overview Gilbert MacMaster (1869-1967), a Quaker, was involved in charitable work in post-World War II Europe. The papers include his letters, photographs, and diary, which covers his and Margarethe Lachmund's (his wife) 30 years of service (1920-1950) with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) child feeding mission in Germany, after World War I, as head of the Friends Center in Hamburg, during Hitler's rise to power, and as American Friends' representative in Basel, Switzerland, during World...

Dates: 1901-1968

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

American Friends Fellowship Council Records

Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records

Margaret E. Jones Papers

Gilbert MacMaster papers

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