Harold S. Gray Papers 1896-1972

Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.)

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The Fellowship of Reconciliation was established in December of 1914, during a meeting at Cambridge, England. Its members believed that Christians were forbidden to wage war, and that instead they should work positively to establish a new world order of peace and justice. The F.O.R. had its office in London. It produced and distributed literature, including its monthly magazine Reconciliation; worked with youth; fostered groups of members throughout the country; and supported the work of the Int...

Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author. Baldwin was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Lucy Cushing (...

Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977

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Episcopalian minister, pacifist and internationalist; staff member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Section, 1924-1967, served as chair, 1935-1940; worked with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and served as chair, 1935-1955; served as editor of The World Tomorrow (1922-1924) and Fellowship magazine 1940-1945); a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Committee on Militarism in Education. From the description of Papers, 1885-1982 1922-1967 (bu...

Chaplin, Maxwell.

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Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955

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John Raleigh Mott was born on May 25, 1865 in Livingston Manor, New York to John Stitt and Elmira Dodge Mott. John R. was the third of four children, having two older and one younger sister. The family soon moved to Postville, Iowa, where the elder Mott prospered as a retail lumber and hardware merchant and became mayor. In this conservative, ethnically diverse environment, young Mott grew to mid-adolescence in a home warmed by Methodist "holiness," which faith he confessed...

Swomley, John M., 1915-2010

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John M. Swomley, Jr.; b. Harrisburg, Pa., in 1915; graduate of Dickinson College; Ph. D. in Political Science from University of Colorado; minister of the Methodist Church; National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation; active with the American Friends Service Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union; campaigned against universal military training; served as Director of the National Council Against Conscription, and as editor of Conscription News; author of books on militarism a...

Couzens, James, 1872-1936

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U.S. senator from Michigan, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and industrialist. From the description of James Couzens papers, 1903-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982271 Detroit Mayor and civic leader, U.S. Senator, Ford Motor Co. executive James Couzens was born in Chatham, Ont., Aug. 26, 1872, son of James J. and Emma (Clift) Couzens; married Margaret A. Manning, Aug. 31, 1898. Began the manufacture of automobiles in 1903 ; vice-president, genera...

Gray, John Simpson, 1841-1906.

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Gray, Philip Hayward, 1865-1922.

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Porter, David R.

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Lunde, Erling H.

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Erling Lunde was imprisoned as an absolutist conscientious objector during the first World War. Through his correspondence with his father, Theodore H. Lunde, atrocities against conscientious objectors, including fatalities, were publicized. From the description of Collection, 1918-1976, 1918-1920. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28329196 ...

Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow)

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Brent Dow Allinson; conscientious objector, pacifist, author, poet; court martialed in 1918 from the US Army in World War I; served two years of hard labor and released in 1920. From the description of Brent Dow Allinson collected papers, 1918-1920. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 771930632 ...

Gray, Harold Studley, 1894-

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Conscientious objector during World Wars I and II and founder of the farming cooperative Saline Valley Farms. From the description of Harold Studley Gray papers, 1896-1972. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418471 Harold Studley Gray was the developer and owner of the Saline Valley Farms, an experiment in cooperative farming and living. Born in Detroit, February 23, 1894, Gray was a graduate of Exeter Academy, then attended Harvard University as wa...

Vaughn, Marian.

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Shaw, Mark R. (Mark Revell), 1889-

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Page, Kirby, 1890-1957

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Vaughan, Harold M.

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Eddy, Sherwood, 1871-1963

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YMCA secretary for Asia, evangelist and author. From the description of Letter of Sherwood Eddy, 1932. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 31743372 George Sherwood Eddy was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on January 19, 1871. He prepared at Phillips-Andover Academy in Massachusetts from 1887-1888 and earned a Ph.B. degree from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University in 1891. He attended Union Theological Seminary and graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1891-18...

Jones, Paul, 1880-1941

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Paul Jones, Episcopal bishop of Utah at the outbreak of World War I, was an active socialist whose opposition to United States participation in the war ultimately cost him his ecclesiastical position in 1918. He died in 1941 after being at least partially vindicated by the Episcopal hierarchy. He was a leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in its early years. From the description of Collection, 1917-1939, 1917-1918. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 284...

Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974

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Crane, Henry Hitt, 1890-1977

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Methodist clergyman, pastor of the Centre Methodist Church in Malden, Massachusetts, the Elm Park Methodist Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Central Methodist Church in Detroit, Michigan. From the description of Henry Hitt Crane papers, 1902-1977 (bulk 1938-1958). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80045132 From the description of Henry Hitt Crane papers, 1902-1969 (bulk 1938-1958). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418797 ...

Bennett, James O'Donnell, 1870-1940

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Chicago newspaper correspondent and author. James O'Donnell Bennet was born in Jackson, Michigan in 1870. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish war, dramatic and literary critic of the Chicago record-herald, later on the Chicago tribune, and won fame as correspondent in the World War. He was also author of several books, including Much Loved Books: Best Sellers of the Ages. Bennett died at his home in Chicago in 1940. From the description of James O'D...

Gray, Almena Studley.

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Studley Family.

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Zhang, Fuliang, 1889-

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Jones, Edgar De Witt, 1876-1956

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Minister at Central Woodward Christian Church, Detroit, Michigan. From the description of [Correspondence to the author concerning American history.] 1930-1956. (Oakland University). WorldCat record id: 21343760 Minister, Author. Jones, a minister with the Disciples of Christ, attended Transylvania College and the College of the Bible. He was the author of twenty-four books. From the description of The influences of Henry Clay upon Abraha...

Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970

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Pacifist/anarchist. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154299795 Ammon Ashford Hennacy was born in 1893 in Negley, Ohio, to Benjamin and Lida Fitz-Randolph Hennacy. He married Selma Melms in 1919, they were divorced in 1964, and then he married Joan Thomas. Hennacy was a "Christian-anarchist-pacifist" (as he called himself) who never paid taxes or went to war. He was a conscientious objector in both world wars, and a lifelong anti-war activist. He...

Thomas, Emma Mattoon.

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Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967

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Clergyman, pacifist. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741542 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681124 A.J. Muste (1885-1967). Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919. When he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrenc...

Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970

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Clergyman and pacifist; died 1970. From the description of Frederick Joseph Libby papers, 1846-1973 (bulk 1890-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982364 Biographical Note 1874, Nov. 24 Born, Richmond, Maine 1894 Bachelor of arts, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine ...

Columbia Conserve Company

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Morrison, Charles Clayton, 1874-1966

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Nelson, Walter Morrow.

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Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990

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Hapgood, William Powers, 1872-1960.

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Dunham, Arthur, 1893-

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Social worker, professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan. From the description of Arthur Dunham papers, [ca. 1900]-1980. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418874 Social worker, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Dunham : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569653 Arthur Dunham was a social work educator at the University of Michigan. ...