Series 6: Joseph Passmore Elkinton and Anna Griscom Elkinton

Joseph Passmore Elkinton (1887-1971) was the oldest child of Joseph and Sarah West (Passmore) Elkinton. He was born in Philadelphia, but the family moved to Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1893 where he attended Media Friends School. After the Westtown School and Haverford College, he married Mary Bucknell (1885-1929) and the family settled in Moylan where his parents and other Quakers built homes on 13 acres. He worked for the family company, PQ Corporation, until his retirement in 1949 and was recorded as a minister by Chester Monthly Meeting (held in Media, now Media Monthly Meeting) at the age of 35. He was active in founding the All-American Friends Conference. After the death of his first wife in 1929, he married Anna Bassett Griscom (1889-1974) in 1931. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she also was an committed Friend, active in Young Friends, Friends General Conference, and the American Friends Service Committee. Both were active in Friends World Conference and Friends World Committee. They died at Foulkeways, a Quaker continuing care facility in Gwynedd, Pa. Anna Griscom Elkinton donated some of her papers to Friends Historical Library in 1962, and these were catalogued separately as Anna Bassett Griscom Papers, RG 5/053.