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Elkinton Family, 1856 - 1987

 Series — Box: 1
Identifier: Ser. 1

Scope and Contents

1906 Family Trip to Europe [Sarah, Mary, Frances, Howard, Anna Moore, J. Passmore, and Deborah Passmore Elkinton]. American Friends Service Committee, 30th Anniversary, held at Roberts Hall, Haverford College, 1947. Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, 1987. Arch Street Yearly Meeting (West Room), Fifth Day Morning Meeting, ca. 1905. Carol Catchpool's wedding to Timothy Holding, Welwyn Garden City, England (ID on bottom) Chester Quarterly Meeting, Lansdowne, PA. April, 1958. Church of St. Mary of the Virgin, Cropredy, Oxfordshire, England (sketch). Rebuilt ca.1320. Richard Elkinton was churchwarden in 1543. Elkinton camp, Pocono Lake Preserve, 1951. Elkinton family, n.d., unidentified. English and Irish Fraternal delegates to Five Year’s Meeting, Richmond, IN. (ID on back of photo) International group of Friends (location not shown), n.d. [Philadelphia Y.M. Friends in photo (from top to bottom, 1 to r) include: M. Albert Linton, William B. Harvey, Robert and Elizabeth Yarnall, Mary Hoxie Jones, J. Passmore Elkinton, Elizabeth Cadhury Jones, Annette Way. English Friends include: Harry Silcock, Howard Diamond]. Jordans Meeting House, England, and Joseph Elkinton’s grave stone, 1980. Moving Industrial Hall, when building present school at Westtown, PA,1885-1886.

Family gatherings: 1889, 1911, 1932, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1954.

Miscellaneous, 1856-1985 and n.d., including photographs of the following individuals: Elizabeth Binford, G. Raymond Booth (d. 1953), Burnham Braithwaite, Deborah C. Cope (1833-1902), Jane M. Cope (1827-1915), Mary Elkinton Duguid, William Duguid, Alfred Cope Elkinton, Alfred Elkinton, Anna Griscom Elkinton, Anna L. Elkinton, David C. Elkinton, Howard Elkinton, Joe and Gwyneth Elkinton, J. Passmore Elkinton, Kitty Wistar (Mason) Elkinton, Thomas William Elkinton (1892-1960), William Elkinton, Anna Griscom (b. 1831), Chalkley Griscom (b. 1821), David Powell Griscom (b. 1810), Edwin Atle [?] Griscom (b. 1819), Elizabeth Griscom (b. 1815), Emetine Griscom (b.1831), Horace Griscom (b. 1816), Powell Griscom (b.1814), Rachel Den Griscom (b. 1808), Samuel Everett Griscom (b. 1817), William Morris Griscom (b. 1823), Margaret James, Esther and David Jones, Tomas and Canby Jones, Reverend C. Kajiwara and his coolly, George and Marge Leavitt, Isaac and Esther Mason, Richard Newby (from Des Moines, IA), Herbert V. Nicholson, Madeline and Virginia Nicholson, Deborah C. Passmore (1858-1937), Sarah West Passmore (1854-1936), Alice L. Pearson, William L. Pearson, Clarence and Lilly Pickett, Esther B. Rhoads, Elbert Russell, Edith Sharpless, Harry Silcock, Edward Smedley, Leslie Shaffer, Miss Stewart (from Wichita, KS), Frances Elkinton Stokes, Howard and Dorothy Thorne (at the Friends World Committee Meeting held in Germantown, OH, 1955), Anna Willits (3rd wife of Alfred Elkinton, dau. of Ellis J. and Mary Patterson Willits), Mary Willits.

Dates

  • Creation: 1856 - 1987

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