Society of Friends -- Oregon
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Harold Chance journals, reports, and evaluation of Friends Peace Service work
Collection — Othertype SC-195
Identifier: SFHL-SC-195
Abstract
Journals, reports, and surveys written by Harold Chance documenting his visits to and continuing relationships as an AFSC staff member with Evangelical Friends meetings, mostly in the western United States. The collection includes nine journals, 1949-1956, Friends Peace Service evaluation surveys, 1956 & n.d., and a number of miscellaneous reports to Friends Peace Service Council. Among the former is a report on the Second American Conference of Evangelical Friends (1950) and one on the...
Dates:
1949-1961
Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG1
Overview
A Friends World Conference Committee, sponsored by the Fellowship Council of the American Friends Service Committee, was established in 1932 to promote better understanding among Friends world wide. The representatives at the Second World Conference of Friends, held at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Pa., in 1937, approved the establishment of a continuing international organization, a Friends World Committee, to promote international contacts and cooperation among Friends. In 1958, it...
Dates:
1933-2010
William Hobson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-062
Overview
William Hobson, 1820-1891, was a Quaker minister and farmer from North Carolina, Iowa, and Oregon. The collection contains chiefly diaries (1859-1891) describing rural life in Iowa and ministerial visits to California, Kansas, Missouri, and Oregon; together with autobiographical fragments and notes for sermons.
Dates:
1851-1891
North Pacific Yearly Meeting Records
Collection — Othertype SW/NPYM
Identifier: QM-NPYM
Overview
North Pacific Yearly Meeting is made of of members of the Society of Friends in the northwestern United States. Some of the Yearly Meeting's records are stored at the Oregon Historical Society Library, Portland, Oregon, but copies of the Proceedings and Steering Committee minutes are also deposited in the Friends Historical Library, although FHL is not the formal depository.
Dates:
1945 - 2020
