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Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Overview
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Kite-Bassett Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-080
Overview
The Kite and Bassett families were Orthodox Quakers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Lynn, Massachusetts, respectively. James Kite was born in 1808, the son of Benjamin and Rebecca Kite of Philadelphia. In 1837 he was granted a certificate to Salem Monthly Meeting in Massachusetts to marry Lydia B. Rodman, widow of Caleb Rodman and daughter of Isaac and Ruth Bassett of Lynn. James and Lydia had eight children, viz. Ruth, James Rodman, Eliza B., Rebecca, Isaac C. Bassett, Hannah B., Lydia...
Dates:
1837-1930
William Webb Price Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-126
Overview
William Webb Price (1892-1961) was a Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. The collection contains chiefly letters written by Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.
Dates:
1917-1923
Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-149
Overview
Wilbur K. Thomas (1882-1953), a Quaker born in Indiana, was executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee from 1918 to 1929. He graduated from Friends University in 1904, served as pastor of various Quaker churches, graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1907, earned a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1914, and was a member of Boston Friends Meeting after 1909. He was director of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation in Philadelphia from 1930 to 1946. The collection contains...
Dates:
1914-1933
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- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Thomas, Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey), 1882-1953 2
- American Friends Reconstruction Unit 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Bassett, Hannah, 1815-1855 1
- Bassett, Ruth, d. 1860 1
- Bassett, William, 1803-1871 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Boyce, Eliza B. (Eliza Bassett), 1807-1882 1
- Boyce, Eunice B. (Eunice Bassett), 1811-1864 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 1
- Conference of Christian Pacifists 1
- Elderkin, Noble S. (Noble Strong), 1878-1966 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Fuller, Walter G. 1
- Hardin, Floyd, 1890-1974 1
- Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 1
- Hoffman, Ruth McCollin, b. 1890 1
- Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
- Kelsey, Mary 1
- Kite, Abbie, 1851-1919 1
- Kite, James R. (James Rodman), 1840-1908 1
- Kite, James, 1808-1856 1
- Kite, Lydia B. (Lydia Bassett), 1813-1872 1
- Masters, Rebecca K. (Rebecca Kite), 1843-1895 1
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 1
- Newhall, Anna G. (Anna Greene), fld 1824-1863 1
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
- Pennell, Anne Walton 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Peace Committee (1916-1933) 1
- Price, William Webb, 1892-1961 1
- Smedley, Jacob, 1835-1893 1
- Smedley, Ruth K. (Ruth Kite), 1838-1914 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
- Whitaker, Robert, 1863-1944 1 ∧ less
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