Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
American Friends' letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-851
Abstract
The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Dates:
1682-1986
Elijah Coffin scrapbook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-005
Abstract
Elijah Coffin's scrapbook includes his handwritten notes, typed materials, and published clippings. It features published materials on the history of westward expansion and pioneers, and the history of Indiana, as well as typed excerpts from a history of Kentucky (by Scudder), a history of Virginia (by Cooke), and Daniel Boone. In addition to material focusing on the history of the American West, the scrapbook includes excerpts from histories of Mesopotamia, Russia, Babylonia, Sumeria,...
Dates:
Undated.
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
Maramaduke Cooper Cope collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1022
Abstract
Letters to and from the Quaker Marmaduke Cooper Cope (1804-1897) of the prominent Philadelphia Cope family on various important issues of his day.
Dates:
1843-1874
Aaron White Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-163
Abstract
Contains the papers of Aaron White (1793-1863) and his family. He was a birthright member of Pasquotank Monthly Meeting, N.C., and transferred to Milford Monthly Meeting, Indiana, in 1829. The Whites were active in Quaker affairs and concerns, including abolition and controversies within Indiana Yearly Meeting. Aaron, as the oldest son in his family, played a central role in the family both in business and personal matters. The bulk of the collection is the correspondence of Aaron and...
Dates:
1805-1966
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- Quakers -- Indiana 2
- Quakers -- North Carolina 2
- Business 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Indiana 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Indigenous rights -- Civil rights 1
- Kentucky 1
- Mental Illness -- Treatment -- History 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Family relationships 1
- Quakers -- New England 1
- Quakers -- Travel 1
- Slavery 1
- Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States 1
- Slavery -- North Carolina 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 1
- Social reformers 1
- Society of Friends -- Education 1
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions -- Japan 1
- Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 1
- Spiritual life -- Society of Friends 1
- Temperance 1
- Virginia 1
- Wayne County (Ind.) 1
- West (U.S.) 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- genealogies (histories) 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
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