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Scope and Contents Detailed memoirs and correspondence. Describes attending local meetings, the sermons of traveling ministers such as John Henry Douglas and Sarah Linton. More controversy in the Society of Friends with visits from Joshua Maule, Martha Gould to Philadelphia in 1862 at the time of the yearly meeting and a separation in Ohio. In 1863, pressure of the draft/fee increased with some Quakers incarcerated. Westtown and other Quaker school affected. Joseph S. Elkinton was drafted in 1863 and appealed;...

Scope and Contents Detailed memoirs and correspondence. Death of Nathan Kite in 1867. Joseph Elkinton travels to visit Indigenous Peoples of New York State in November, dies in January 1868. Episode at a Quaker meeting where person leaves nosily in protest. Visited the Seneca in 5 mo 1868 and served on grand jury in June. His problem with the death penalty. Much illness in the City and death of their baby, Thomas. November 1868 fire on Market Street, Philadelphia. Records of Select School destroyed in James...