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Coffin, Rhoda M., 1826-1909

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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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Indians of North America 1
Mental Illness -- Treatment -- History 1
Prison reformers 1
Quakers -- North Carolina 1
Social reformers 1
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