Elkinton family.

Quaker family of Philadelphia and Moylan, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Elkinton, the son of Asa and Letitia Elkinton, was born in Salem, N.J. in 1794. Soon after, his family moved to Philadelphia, Pa. Joseph Elkinton married Mary Nutt in 1829, and two years later established a soap manufacturing business which grew into the Philadelphia Quartz Co. He was involved with the Senecas at the Quaker school at Tunesassa (Quaker Bridge), New York, where his oldest son, Joseph Scotton Elkinton, was born in 1830. The latter was a Quaker minister, and was involved with the resettlement of the Doukhobars in Canada. Joseph Scotton Elkinton married Melinda Patterson. Their oldest son, Joseph Elkinton, was born in Philadelphia in 1859. He was an officer in the Philadelphia Quartz Co., and was active in the work of the Society of Friends in the Midwest. He also travelled to Japan and China on religious visits. His son, Joseph Passmore Elkinton, was born in 1887, daughter Mary Cope Elkinton in 1888, Howard W. Elkinton in 1892, amd Francis P. Elkinton in 1894.

(Cont.) Joseph Scotton Elkinton's sister, Mary Elkinton, married the Japanese diplomat, Dr. Inazo Nitobe in 1891. Joseph Passmore Elkinton married Mary Russell Bucknell in 1909; after Mary's death in 1929, he married Anna Basset Griscom, a Hicksite minister, in 1931. He was a minister and Overseer of Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Joseph Passmore Elkinton's sister, Mary Cope Elkinton, married William Morrison Duguid in 1915. His youngest son, David Cope Elkinton, was born in 1915 and married Marion Dunham in 1940. His son, Thomas D. Elkinton, was born in 1941.