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Joel and Hannah Bean Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-012
Overview Joel Bean (1835-1914) and his wife, Hannah Elliott Bean (1830-1909), were prominent Quaker ministers in Iowa Yearly Meeting in the mid-nineteenth century when Quaker settlements were expanding in Iowa. Joel Bean was born in Alton, New Hampshire, in 1825, the son of John and Elizabeth Hill Bean, and educated at Friends Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island. He migrated to Iowa in 1853, and taught school at West Branch, Iowa, from 1850 to 1861. In 1859, he married Hannah Elliott Shipley...
Dates: 1825-1914

British Friends' letters

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-861
Overview

Letters of English Friends containing information on Quaker history as well as religious and cultural activities. The collection also includes letters relating to the activities of early Friends.

Dates: 1650 - 1985

Friends General Conference slide show on "George Fox Country"

 Collection — othertype: PA-040
Identifier: SFHL-PA-040
Overview

The Audio-Visual Subcommittee of the Religious Education Committee of the Friends General Conference assembled this slide collection alongside a script. The purpose, according to the introduction, is "to help viewers feel better acquainted with George Fox, the period in which he lived, and to bring alive for present day Friends the feel of theh country where Quakerism began." This collection contains slides related to George Fox's life and surroundings and an accompanying script.

Dates: 1952 - 1970

Collection of Rufus Jones papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-066
Identifier: SFHL-SC-066
Abstract This collection includes letters and printed materials relating to Rufus Jones. Included are photocopies of letters commenting on or criticizing The American Friend of which Rufus Jones was editor. Among these are a letter from Henry Stanley Neuman, editor of The Friend, regarding the state of the Society in England, and a letter from Walter Malone relating events at Ohio Yearly Meeting in 1894. Letters from R.L. Kelly, Joseph Moore, David Hadley, and Thomas Newlin discuss The American...
Dates: 1894-1947?

Lindley Murray Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-198
Overview

Lindley Murray, Quaker author and grammarian, was born in 1745 in Pennsylvania and resided in England for many years while publishing grammar books and religious tracts. The collection is primarily composed of letters written by Lindley Murray and other family members between 1785 and 1822.

Dates: 1785-1830

Northern Friends Peace Board Collected Records

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Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Northern Friends Peace Board
Abstract

This collection includes minutes of meetings (1915-1917), annual reports, releases, pamphlets.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1915-1982

Vipont-Brown-Crowley Family Papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-157
Identifier: SFHL-SC-157
Overview

The Vipont, Brown, and Crowley families were active Quakers in England and were particularly involved in Mount Street Monthly Meeting.

Dates: 1802-1993

Nicholas Waln Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-966
Overview

Correspondence, portraits, photographs, poetry, genealogy, and miscellaneous papers related to Nicholas Waln and the Waln family. Bulk of the material consists of correpsondence related to Nicholas Waln's journeys as a Quaker minister in England and Ireland. Topics discussed include news of family, activities of Friends, travel, friendship, spiritual matters, and ministry. Includes a chart of Waln family genealogy.

Dates: 1783 - 1895; Majority of material found within 1783 - 1819

John Whiting Severall Book and Papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-146
Identifier: SFHL-SC-146
Abstract

This collection contains a bound volume of manuscript essays by early English Quaker John Whiting, most written during his imprisonment for failing to pay tithes. These essays include accounts of his confinement, testimonies on tiths, and accounts of Mary Whiting and of William Penn. Also included is typescript of a 1955 article written for the Journal of the Friends Historical Society by Frederick B. Tolles which describes the contents and significance of the volume.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1679-1695; 1679-1695, 1955

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Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
Ackworth School 1
Alexander, H.P. 1
Alexander, Samuel, 1840-1914 1
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Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 1
Bean, James, 1822-1915 1
Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 1
Beck, M.E. 1
Bewley, Maria, d.1886 1
Bewley, Samuel 1
Braithwaite, J. Bevan (Joseph Bevan), 1818-1905 1
Braithwaite, Martha, 1823-1895 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Cedric Vipont, 1896-1972 1
Brown, Dorothy, 1874-1968 1
Brown, E. Vipont (Edward Vipont), 1863-1955 1
Brown, Emily, 1827-1903 1
Cartland, Gertrude W. 1
Cartland, Joseph 1
Chamberlain, Martha Ann 1
Clark, Dougan, 1828-1896 1
Clark, Dougan, d.1896 1
Coffin, Charles F. (Charles Fisher), 1823-1916 1
College Park Association of Friends 1
Cope, Morris, 1800-1892 1
Cope, Samuel 1
Cox, Lydia Shipley Bean 1
Crosfield, Elizabeth, d.1883 1
Crowley family 1
Crowley, Mary Catherine, 1834-1912 1
Doncaster, Phebe 1
Elkinton, Joseph, 1859-1920 1
Fox, George 1
Friends General Conference (U.S.). Religious Education Committee 1
Friends University (Wichita, Kan.) 1
Hadley, David, 1842- 1
Hammond, Eleanor P. 1
Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 1
Hartshorne, Susan Vipont 1
Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1
Kelly, Robert Lincoln, 1865-1954 1
Langdon, Mary A. 1
Malone, J. Walter 1
Mather, J. Francis 1
Miller, Richmond P. (Richmond Pearson), 1902-1972 1
Moore, Joseph, 1832-1905 1
Murray family 1
Murray, Augustus T. (Agustus Taber), 1866-1940 1
Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826 1
Neave, Joseph J. 1
Negus, Jesse, 1831-1922 1
New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
Newlin, Thomas, 1855- 1
Newman, Henry Stanley 1
Nicholson, Timothy, 1828-1924 1
Northern Friends Peace Board 1
Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church (Evangelical : 1854-1971) 1
Penn, William, 1644-1718 1
Potter, William J. (William James), 1829?-1893 1
Potts, Anna, 1827-1905 1
Potts, Joseph 1
Pumphrey, Stanley, 1837-1881 1
Robson, Priscilla, d.1879 1
Scull, David, 1836-1907 1
Scull, Edward Lawrene, 1846-1884 1
Sharp, Isaac 1
Shipley, Anna, 1826-1888 1
Shipley, Murray, 1830-1899 1
Spencer, Robert, b. 1784 1
Tebbets, Mary B. 1
Thistlethwaite, Hannah, d.1893 1
Tolles, Frederick Barnes, 1915-1975 1
Turner, William E. 1
Vipont family 1
Vipont, Elfrida, 1902-1992 1
Waln, Nicholas, 1742-1813 1
Western Yearly Meeting of Friends (1877- : Plainfield, Ind.) 1
Whiting, John, 1656-1722 1
Whiting, Mary, 1654-1676 1
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 1
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