Emily Cooper Johnson Family Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, articles, reviews, and other papers, relating to Johnson's books, Dean Bond of Swarthmore: A Quaker Humanist (1927), and Under Quaker Appointment: The Life of Jane P. Rushmore (1955); together with The collection contains correspondence, articles, reviews, and other papers, relating to Johnson's books, Dean Bond of Swarthmore: A Quaker Humanist (1927), and Under Quaker Appointment: The Life of Jane P. Rushmore (1955); together with business and financial papers, family marriage certificates, reference materials, clippings, and photos.
Dates
- Creation: 1884-1964
Creator
- Johnson, Emily Cooper (Person)
- Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926 (Contributor, Person)
- Rushmore, Jane P. (Jane Peter), 1864-1958 (Contributor, Person)
- Swarthmore College (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Emily Cooper Johnson was a Quaker author, peace activist, and social reformer. She was born in 1885 in Camden, New Jersey. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1907 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academcy of the Fine ARts. She married Edwin J. Johnson in 1915 under the care of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting..
Emily Cooper Johnson revised and updated her father's book, Historical Sketch of Camden, co-edited The Children's Story Caravan, and wrote a biographies of Elizabeth Powell Bond and Jane Rushmore, and edited Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader. She was active in the American Friends Service Committee and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, where she served as president. She died April 11, 1966.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Emily Cooper Johnson was a Quaker author and reformer, born 1885 and died 1966 The collection contains correspondence, articles, reviews, and other papers, relating to Johnson's books, Dean Bond of Swarthmore: A Quaker Humanist (1927), and Under Quaker Appointment: The Life of Jane P. Rushmore (1955); together with business and financial papers, family marriage certificates, reference materials, clippings, and photos.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series:
- Correspondence
- Business and financial
- Pictures
- Miscellaneous
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession information
Donor: Emily Cooper Johnson, ca. 1965
The collection was given by Emily Cooper Johnson, who also donated the Cooper Family Papers, RG5/031 in 1959-1962.
Separated Materials
The following marriage certificates from the collection were transferred to FHL Marriage Certificates:
- Howard M. Cooper to Lucy Smith, 4/22/1884, Race Street Monthly Meeting.
- Edwin James John and Emily Smyth Cooper, 5/8/1915, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting.
Processing Information
Unprocessed when received. Sorted and described, marriage certificates transferred to FHL Marriage Certificates. Some obituaries and related material in Johnson's clippings file transfered to PG 7, Biographical and genealogical reference files for access.
Subject
- Johnson, Emily Cooper -- Dean Bond of Swarthmore: A Quaker Humanist (Contributor, Person)
- Title
- Emily Cooper Johnson Family Papers, 1884-1964
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- ca. 1967
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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