Series 3 Edward F. Stratton Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection of miscellaneous papers, largely concerning Ohio Quakers, were collected by Edward F. Stratton, Curator of Salem Quarterly Meeting, Ohio, and an amateur historian. They include genealogical information, historical research papers, miscellaneous correspondence, and Quakeriana. Of particular interest is an 1804 report of the Committee on Indian Concerns, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, with a letter from Sawhe asking for aid for his tribe. Also letters and reports on yearly meetings which describe the Wilburite-Gurneyite controversies and copies of testimonies by prominent Quakers, including Elias Hicks and Thomas B. Gould, and Ann Branson. The papers are organized into three groups: Edward F. Stratton correspondence; Genealogical and historical papers, Salem Quarterly Meeting; and Miscellaneous Collected Papers. The Collected Papers are arranged chronologically.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Edward F. Stratton (1876-1968) was a Quaker from Salem and Barnesville, Ohio. He was the son of Edward and Mary (Raley) Stratton. In 1902, he married Clara E. Frame at Stillwater Monthly Meeting, Ohio. He served as Curator of the Salem Quarterly Meeting records and was Librarian of the Friends Society, Salem, Ohio. In 1964, he moved to The Walton, a Quaker boarding home in Barnesville, Ohio, where he maintained an avid interest in preserving the history of Ohio Quakers. As Curator of Salem Quarterly Meeting Records, Edward F. Stratton was involved with the deposit of Ohio Hicksite and western Pennsylvania Quaker records in Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College in the early 1960s.
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