Quakers -- New York (State).
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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).