Bowles, Gordon Townsend
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bowles family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1212
Abstract
The Bowles family was deeply involved with Quaker missionary and relief work during the 20th century. In 1900, the Bowles moved to Japan under the auspices of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and managed the Friends School and established the Tokyo Friends Center. During World War II, the Bowles family moved to Hawaii and worked with war refugees. The Bowles family correspondence consists of correspondence from Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles to their son Gordon Townsend Bowles from 1922 to...
Dates:
1922-1960
Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1161
Abstract
The papers document the lives of service of Quakers Gilbert Bowles (1869-1960) and Minnie Picket Bowles (1868-1958), Quaker missionaries and ministers in Asia and Hawaii for over 60 years, from 1896-1960.
Dates:
1890-1974
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- Hawaii 1
- Incarceration 1
- Japan 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Hawaii -- Honolulu 1
- Quakers -- Japan 1
- Refugees 1
- Society of Friends -- Hawaii -- Honolulu 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions -- Japan 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1
- correspondence 1
- family papers 1
- postcards 1 + ∧ less
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