Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of the Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting and of Friends' Village, both located in Newtown, PA. The collection includes correspondence, minute books, constitution and legal papers, reports, and other papers.
Dates
- Creation: 1896-2013
Creator
- Friends Boarding Home of the Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Newtown, Pa.) (Organization)
- Friends Village (Newtown, Pa.) (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting, a Quaker boarding home for the aged in Newtown. Pennsylvania, was opened in 1897 and incorporated in 1899. In 1900 it moved to a new building erected on Congress Street, with funds given by Edward M. Paxson in memory of his parents.
In 1896 Bucks Quarterly Meeting appointed a committee to determine the need for a Home for Friends within the Bucks Quarter. In 1897 the Committee rented the property of Dr. Lettie A. Smith in Newtown, Pa., for a Friends Boarding Home. The Home was incorporated in 1899, and a building erected on a lot purchased from Emmor K. Janney, located between Congress Street and Centre Avenue in Newtown, Pa., with funds given by Judge Edward M. Paxson in memory of his parents. The Home was completed and transferred to the Bucks Quarterly Meeting in 1900.
In 1979, after the donation of the Styer property in 1978, construction was started on what was initially called the Annex; the renamed 44 unit Friends' Village was opened for occupancy in 1981.
Extent
2.3 linear ft. (2 boxes and 9 volumes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting, a Quaker boarding home for the aged in Newtown. Pennsylvania, was opened in 1897 and incorporated in 1899. In 1900 it moved to a new building erected on Congress Street, with funds given by Edward M. Paxson in memory of his parents. Friends' Village was opened in 1981. The records include correspondence, minute books, constitution and legal papers, reports, and other papers.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into 2 series. The series are:
- Minutes
- Miscellaneous Papers
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Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting
Date: 1975, 2014
Subject
- Friends Boarding Home of the Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Newtown, Pa.) (Organization)
- Friends Village (Newtown, Pa.) (Organization)
- Friends Boarding Home of the Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Newtown, Pa.) (Organization)
Topical
- Church work with older people -- Pennsylvania
- Church work with older people -- Society of Friends
- Church work with older people -- Society of Friends
- Nonprofit Organizations -- Pennsylvania
- Old Age Homes -- Pennsylvania -- Newtown
- Older People -- Care -- Society of Friends
- Older People -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania
- Older People -- Pennsylvania -- Newtown (Bucks County)
- Quakers -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania
- Title
- An Inventory of the Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting Records, 1896-2013
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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