Society of Friends
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Emily Howland additional papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941598]
Identifier: 3115
Scope and content
Six looseleaf notebooks: "Interesting Miscellaneous - Letters, Essays," "Letters and Diary from Miss Miner's School, Washington, D.C., and Letters from Heathsville, Va.," "Journal, Report, Reminiscences and Letters from Contraband (Freedmen's) Camp - 1863-1866," "Commencement Addresses at Sherwood Select School and Interesting Quotes from Diaries," "Speeches about Temperance, Woman's Suffrage and Peace," "Biographical Sketch of Emily Howland, 1827-1929."
Dates:
1857-1929.
Emily Howland papers
Collection
Identifier: 2681
Abstract
Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's...
Dates:
1797-1938.
Gould family papers
Collection
Identifier: 2033
Abstract
Diaries, 1799-1832, of Stephen Wanton Gould, concerned with meetings of the Society of Friends, the activities of his family members and friends as well as several public events; extracts from the records of monthly meetings, 1676-1707, held by Rhode Island Quakers; letters, 1862-1868, from John Stanton Gould to his daughter Mary (Gould) Baldwin, relating to the Goulds and the related families, Gould's early life, his interests, and other personal matters; journal, 1866-1869, showing Gould's...
Dates:
1799-[ca. 1869]
Hathaway family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938750]
Identifier: 190
Scope and content
Hathaway family, Watkins Glen, Schuyler County (N.Y.) papers and correspondence discuss the Friends Society, the Abolitionist movement, life in a poor house, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union; includes photographs.
Dates:
1827-1910.
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- Temperance. 3
- African Americans -- Education 2
- Antislavery movements. 2
- Freed persons 2
- Women -- Education. 2
- Women -- Suffrage. 2
- Abenaki Indians. 1
- Abolitionists. 1
- Agriculture. 1
- Almshouses. 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States. 1
- Cattle -- Diseases. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- Columbia County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Deeds. 1
- Diaries 1
- Drawings. 1
- England -- Description and travel. 1
- Families -- New York (State) 1
- Families -- Rhode Island. 1
- Florence (Italy) 1
- Genealogies. 1
- Grasses. 1
- Hudson (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Indentures. 1
- Japan -- Description and travel. 1
- Lausanne (Switzerland) 1
- League of Nations. 1
- Missionaries. 1
- Munich (Germany) 1
- New York (State) -- Politics and government. 1
- Philanthropists. 1
- Photographs 1
- Prison reformers. 1
- Quaker women. 1
- Quakers -- History. 1
- Quakers -- New York (State). 1
- Quakers -- Rhode Island -- Newport. 1
- Quakers. 1
- Real property, Exchange of. 1
- Religion. 1
- Rhode Island -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Schuyler County (N.Y.) -- History, Local. 1
- Schuyler County (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Scotland -- Description and travel. 1
- Social reformers. 1
- Society of Friends. 1
- Switzerland -- Description and travel. 1
- United States -- History. 1
- Women educators. 1
- Women social reformers. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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