Coffin, Charles F. (Charles Fisher), 1823-1916
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Joel and Hannah Bean Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-012
Abstract
Joel Bean (1835-1914) and his wife, Hannah Elliott Bean (1830-1909), were prominent Quaker ministers in Iowa Yearly Meeting in the mid-nineteenth century when Quaker settlements were expanding in Iowa. Joel Bean was born in Alton, New Hampshire, in 1825, the son of John and Elizabeth Hill Bean, and educated at Friends Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island. He migrated to Iowa in 1853, and taught school at West Branch, Iowa, from 1850 to 1861. In 1859, he married Hannah Elliott Shipley...
Dates:
1825-1914
Coffin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-029
Abstract
The Coffin family were Quakers of Wayne County, Indiana. Elijah Coffin was born in 1793 in Guilford County, N.C., the son of Bethuel and Hannah Dicks Coffin. His son and daughter-in-law, Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin were active in the peace movement, prison reform, reform of the treatment of the insane, and the temperance movement. Father and son both served as Clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting. The collection contains family correspondence, journals, business papers, and miscellaneous...
Dates:
1797-1932
Coffin family photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-145
Abstract
The Coffin family were Quakers of Wayne County, Indiana. Elijah Coffin was born in 1793 in Guilford County, N.C., the son of Bethuel and Hannah Dicks Coffin. His son and daughter-in-law, Charles F. and Rhoda M. Coffin were active in the peace movement, prison reform, reform of the treatment of the insane, and the temperance movement. Father and son both served as Clerk of Indiana Yearly Meeting. This collection contains family portrait albums and films and Kodax of family homes.
Dates:
1850 - 1916
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- Quakers -- Indiana 2
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Mental Illness -- Treatment -- History 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Australia 1
- Quakers -- California 1
- Quakers -- England -- 19th century 1
- Quakers -- Hawaii 1
- Quakers -- Iowa -- 19th century 1
- Quakers -- Ireland -- 19th century 1
- Quakers -- North Carolina 1
- Quakers -- Scotland -- 19th century 1
- Social reformers 1
- Society of Friends -- California 1
- Society of Friends -- England -- 19th century 1
- Society of Friends -- Iowa -- 19th century 1
- Society of Friends -- Ireland -- 19th century 1
- Society of Friends -- Scotland -- 19th century 1
- Temperance 1
- Wayne County (Ind.) 1 + ∧ less
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