Box 1

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This file includes correspondence by and to L. Oscar Moon, who was minister of Friends' Church of Detroit when he left the meeting over sectarian differences. He requested a Certificate of Removal to Lansdowne Monthly Meeting, but ultimately joined other former Friends' Church Members in forming the Detroit Association of Friends, a then-independent meeting.

Scope and Contents These historical summaries were created by Kenneth Ives, meeting clerk, in 1959. The first abstract is about the Detroit Friends Church, which was set up in 1919 under the care of Muncie Monthly Meeting (part of Indiana Yearly Meeting) and remained active until 1984. Excerpts from its minute book (now in the Earlham College Quaker collections) cover 1919-1926. The church, also called First Friends Church, split in 1924 with some members and its minister starting an independent...

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Includes two typescripts, one by Carlisle Davidson (a member of Friends Church) and one unsigned, about William Savery and early Friends in Detroit. One typescript by Carlisle Davidson on “Anti-Slavery Activity of Hicksite Friends in Michigan, 1830-1860” and 1925-1926 clippings about Detroit Quaker meetings and weddings

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Includes committee minutes and a small file related to peace activist Alice Herz, who applied for membership to Detroit Friends Meeting in 1944. In 1951, the Committee of Overseers requested that she resign membership because of "the disturbances and disruption" that her calls to political action caused during meeting for worship.