Elkinton, J. Russell
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Elkinton Family Papers
Collection
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
Friends Medical Society and Reproductive Rights
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-293
Abstract
This collection contains various materials on the Friends Medical Society as they relate to reproductive rights and abortion rights between 1967 and 2017. It also contains corresponding letters, journal excerpts, and newspaper clippings relating to general reproductive rights and abortion rights by Quakers and non-Quakers.
Dates:
1967 - 2017
