Joshua L. Baily notes on quaker meetings
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of Joshua Baily's notes on the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, as well as various Quarterly meetings. The collection includes Baily's original handwritten notes, a volume of typed notes compiled later, and related materials, such as letters and extracts of sermons.
Dates
- Creation: 1826-1871
Creator
Use Restrictions
Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical note
Joshua Longstreth Baily (1826-1916) was a Quaker merchant in the dry goods business. He attended all the American Yearly Meetings between 1845 and 1855. He contributed to African American causes, was interested in peace issues, and worked toward temperance, establishing temperance coffeehouses in Philadelphia. He was also the vice President of the National Temperance Society. He was treasurer of the Mohonk Arbitration Conference, president of the American Bible Society, and was affiliated with the Pennsylvania Prison Society for 66 years, and was the organization’s president at the time of his death. He was an author on topics related to Bible study and temperance.
Baily married Theodate Lang in 1856. The couple had 5 children:
Frederick Lang Baily, b. 1858
Albert Lang Baily, b. 1859
William Lloyd Baily, b. 1861
Charles Winter Baily, b. 1866
Henry Paul Baily, b. 1868
Extent
0.17 linear ft. (1 volume, 3 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Acquisition
Unknown.
Processing Information
Processed by Kara Flynn; completed December 2015.
Subject
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 (Person)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library (Organization)
Topical
- Title
- Joshua L. Baily notes on quaker meetings, 1826-1871
- Author
- Kara Flynn
- Date
- December 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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