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American Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-003
Overview
In the 1820s William Ladd of the Maine Peace Society suggested that the regional US peace societies become associated in a national organization. As a result, the peace societies of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) merged in May 1828 to form the American Peace Society [APS]. The stated purpose of the American Peace Society was to "promote permanent international peace through justice; and to advance in every proper way the general use of...
Dates:
1828-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Massachusetts Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-020
Abstract
The Massachusetts Peace Society was first formed in 1815, and a new organization reformed in 1911. The records of both groups have been combined here to form one archival collection. The Massachusetts Peace Society (MPS)was the second [third?] such society to form in America on December 28, 1815, organized primarily by Noah Worcester (1758-1837), a Unitarian minister. By 1819 the MPS had over 850 members, with branches established throughout the state and beyond. The MPS...
Dates:
1816-1917; Majority of material found within 1911-1917
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Pacifism -- Massachusetts -- History -- Sources 1
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- Abercrombie, Daniel Webster, 1853-1932 1
- Alexander, Joseph G. (Joseph Gundry), 1848- 1
- Alexander, Magnus W. (Magnus Washington), 1870-1932 1
- American Peace Society 1
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 1
- Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923 1
- Beals, Charles Edward, 1869-1931 1
- Blakeslee, George Hubbard, 1871-1954 1
- Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 1
- Christian Arbitration and Peace Society 1
- Dutton, Samuel Train, 1849-1919 1
- Eckstein, Anna B., 1868-1947 1
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 1
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 1
- Hall, James Jabez, 1849-1921 1
- Haskins, Henry S. 1
- Hudson, Jay William, 1874- 1
- Ikemoto, Seichi 1
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
- Massachusetts Peace Society 1
- Paine, Robert Treat, 1900-1965 1
- Peckover, Priscilla Hannah, 1833-1931 1
- Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954 1
- Phillips, Harry Clinton, 1880- 1
- Richard, Ernst D., 1859-1914 1
- Root, Robert Cromwell, 1858- 1
- Short, William H. (William Harrison), 1868-1935 1
- Suttner, Bertha von, 1843-1914 1
- Trueblood, Sarah H. 1
- Tryon, James L. (James Libby), 1864-1958 1
- Weston, Stephen Francis, 1855-1935 1
- White, Frederick 1
- Winslow, Erving, 1839-1922 1
- Wolkins, Lyra Trueblood 1
- Worcester, Noah, 1758-1837 1 ∧ less
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