Quakers -- Iowa -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Joel and Hannah Bean Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-012
Abstract
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
Levis Miller family correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-306
Identifier: SFHL-SC-308
Abstract
This small collection includes five letters. Four of them are letters from George Miller in Trenton, Iowa, writing to his brother, Levis Miller in Media, Delaware County, Pa. One letter is from Annie E. Miller (daughter of Levis?) to her brother, Edgar Miller. George's letters primarily relate farming matters, but of special interest is a political discussion including "negro suffrage" on the last page of the December 1868 letter.
Dates:
1866 - 1869
