Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Foster-Meyers Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-221
Abstract
Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings,...
Dates:
1765-2006
Joseph Meyers correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-883
Abstract
Joseph E. Meyers entered Westtown School at the age of 15 in November of 1873. The letters in the collection are from classmates at Westtown, discussing life events, mutual friends, and reminiscence of the Westtown days and are dated from his graduation from the school in 1877 until 1924.
Dates:
1877-1924
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- Agriculture -- Rhode Island 1
- Conservative Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Anecdotes 1
- Quakers -- Biography 1
- Quakers -- Conduct of life 1
- Quakers -- Costume 1
- Quakers -- Iowa 1
- Quakers -- Ohio 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Society of Friends -- Indiana 1
- Society of Friends -- Ohio 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Rhode Island 1
- Warwick (R.I.) 1
- correspondence 1
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