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Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ). Society of Friends, Ohio Yearly Meeting Records, 1808-1991 [microform].

Title: Society of Friends, Ohio Yearly Meeting Records, 1808-1991 [microform].

Minutes and related documents of the Ohio Yearly Meetings and several of its subsidiary meetings include quarterly meetings of Short Creek, Stillwater and Pennsville. Redstone, Salem, and those meetings separated from them are not in this collection. Other documents kept by Monthly meeting recorders include birth, death, marriage, and removal information. Original records are maintained at the Olney Friends Boarding School in Barnesville, Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 34 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40950254 View

Stratton, Edward F., 1876-1968,. Collected Papers of Ohio Quakers, 1770-1967.

Title: Collected Papers of Ohio Quakers, 1770-1967.

The collection contains historical and biographical information collected by Edward F. Stratton about the Maule, Stratton, Williams, and related Ohio Quaker families, especially those involved in separations in Ohio Yearly Meeting. Of particular interest are Joshua Maule's diaries and his correspondence concerning the Wilburite-Gurneyite and Maulite (Primitive) separations and the Williams family correspondence and diaries written while they were teaching at schools for freed blacks in Mississippi and Texas (1867-1876). Correspondents include Joshua Maule, Thomas B. and Martha S. Gould, Hannah Hall, and Charles Evans. Miscellaneous Society of Friends records include advices, sermons, a report of the Committee on Indian Concerns, Baltimore Yearly Meeting with a letter to "Brother Quakers" from Sawhe asking for aid (1804), an account of a conversation between Thomas Gould and Joseph John Gurney (1838), a letter from a Civil War conscientious objector, and accounts of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes ; 2.75 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67837312 View

Foster, John B., b. 1926. Foster-Meyers Family Papers, 1765-2000.

Title: Foster-Meyers Family Papers, 1765-2000.

Contains the papers of the Foster family, a Wilburite Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings, reminiscences and biographies which offer insight into conservative Quaker life in Iowa, Ohio, and New England in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Also includes extensive records of the Foster family farm in Warwick, R.I., memorabilia, and pictures.

ArchivalResource: 43 boxes ; 21.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50426931 View

Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ). Society of Friends, Ohio Yearly Meeting, 1808-1991 [microform].

Title: Society of Friends, Ohio Yearly Meeting, 1808-1991 [microform]. 1808-1991.

ArchivalResource: v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27122183 View

Continuing Committee on Greater Unity. Records, 1958-1964 & n.d.

Title: Records, 1958-1964 & n.d.

Includes: Kenneth Ives' correspondence regarding the Continuing Committee of Greater Unity, 1958-1961 and n.d.; minutes of the Continuing Committee on Greater Unity, 1958-1963; and information on the Gatherings of Friends, 1959-1964.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33239480 View

Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957. Family papers, 1835-1957.

Title: Family papers, 1835-1957.

Papers consist of correspondence, 10 journals (1893-1957), accounts of trips to Quaker conferences, essays, speeches, and genealogical notes and correspondence of Benjamin F. Whitson. Whitson was active in local organizations in the town of Media, Pa. Included in the papers are a 1936 diary of his wife, Jane T. Whitson; Thomas H. Whitson's "Account of Religious visit to Ohio, Indiana, Iowa;" piece books, extensive correspondence, and other memorabilia of members of the Cooper, Masters, Thorp, Whitson, and Yarnall families. Also of interest is a copy of an 1824 letter of Huldah Hoag.

ArchivalResource: 14 boxes ; 7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50418849 View

Stratton, Edward F., 1876-1968,. Samuel Walton Family Papers, 1813-1890.

Title: Samuel Walton Family Papers, 1813-1890.

The collection contains historical and biographical information collected by Edward F. Stratton, curator of the Salem Quarterly Meeting records and librarian of the Friends Society, Salem, Oh. It includes family correspondence of the Walton family, especially letters to Joseph Walton from his siblings and the correspondence of Samuel and Sarah Walton of Stillwater Monthly Meeting. A large number of the earlier letters were sent to Joseph Walton from his sister, Rebecca Walton. Other correspondents include Lydia L. Walton and Mary and Nathan Kite. Topics include family concerns, the Wilburite-Gurneyite controversy in Ohio and related tensions in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. There are lengthy descriptions of the yearly meetings and meetings for worship with visits by Quaker ministers including Thomas B. Gould, William Evans, and Ezra Comfort.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes ; 1.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/67837212 View

Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937. Papers, 1869-1940, bulk 1928-1929.

Title: Papers, 1869-1940, bulk 1928-1929.

Reminiscences, essays on topics of conservative Quaker concern, and biographies of Friends in Ohio and Iowa.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36099134 View