Williams, John E.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hoffmire family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6871
Scope and content
Papers comprise a genealogy chart of thirteen generations starting with John Carman and Florence Fordham through children born in the 1960s and significant correspondence from the 1830s to the 1880s, by which time the family was in upstate New York in Mecklenburg, Bridgewater, Buffalo, and Trumansburg. Members of the family were Quakers and the correspondence includes positions on faith and religion, news about the Civil War, views about slavery, hungar, factory work, and the Mexican War,...
Dates:
1743-1968,-1837-1880 (bulk).
William Reginald Wheeler papers
Collection
Identifier: 4284
Abstract
Personal correspondence, 1927-1957; documentation on agricultural work in China, 1927; athletics, 1933; Chinese women, 1935; foreign missionaries in China, 1934-1935; observations and eyewitness accounts by missionaries and teachers at Nanking ("The Nanking Incident of March 24-25, 1927").
Dates:
1927-1957.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Atrocities -- China. 1
- China -- History -- 20th century. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949 -- Personal narratives. 1
- China -- Politics and government. 1
- Chinese -- Missions. 1
- Communism -- China. 1
- Education -- China. 1
- Families -- New York (State). 1
- Mecklenburg (N.Y.) 1
- Missionaries -- China. 1
- Missions -- China -- Agricultural work. 1
- Missions -- China -- Educational work. 1
- Quakers -- New York (State). 1
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 1
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1 + ∧ less
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