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Anna S. Cox Brinton family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1228
Overview
The papers of the family of Anna S. Cox Brinton, a notable Quaker educator, activist and minister. Her family includes Joel and Hannah E. Shipley Bean, the founders of the Beanite branch of Quakerism, as well as Catharine M. Cox Miles, who was active with the American Friends Service Committee in Germany after World War I. Other family members are also included.
Dates:
1825-1960
Walter R. Miles correspondence concerning Why be loyal to the Society of Friends?
Collection — othertype: SC-081
Identifier: SFHL-SC-081
Abstract
In April of 1911, Walter R. Miles, then professor at Iowa State University, posed this query to other Quakers: Why be loyal to the Society of Friends as a distinct denomination? This collection includes responses he received over the next year from prominent Friends across the nation, particularly educators from the Midwest. The letters present their spiritual and doctrinal philosophies. Authors include J. Herschell Coffin, H. Lavinia Bailey, O. Edward Janney, Edward Grubb, Joseph Elkinton,...
Dates:
1911
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- Names: Miles, Walter R. ((Walter Richard)), b. 1885 X
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 1
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- Society of Friends -- Doctrines 1
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- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Spirituality -- Society of Friends 1
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- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Baily, H. Lavinia (Hannah Lavinia), 1837-1921 1
- Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 1
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 1
- Brinton, Anna Cox 1
- Coffin, J. Herschel (Joseph Herschel), b.1880 1
- Cox, Catharine E. Bean 1
- Cox, Charles E., 1854-1930 (Charles Ellwood) 1
- Cox, Lydia Shipley Bean 1
- Elkinton, Joseph, 1859-1920 1
- Grubb, Edward, 1854-1939 1
- Hanson, John F. (John Frederick), 1841-1917 1
- Haviland, Henry M. (Henry Morris), 1840?-1943 1
- Hobbs, L.L. (Lewis Lyndon), 1849-1932 1
- Janney, O. Edward (Oliver Edward), 1856-1930 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
- Kenworthy, Murray S., 1874-1951 1
- McGrew, Edwin, 1868- 1
- Miles, Catharine Cox 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Sharpless, Isaac, 1848-1920 1
- Stanley, Edmund, 1847-1928 1
- Stranahan, E.H. (Edgar Howard), 1875-1944 1
- Tebbets, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1855- 1 ∧ less
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