Quaker miscellany, oversize, 1659-1963.

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Quaker miscellany, oversize, 1659-1963.

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Letters, accounts, testimonies, genealogy, photographs, facsimiles, periodicals and other miscellaneous oversized material related to the Society of Friends. Includes account book pages (1866-1878) of George B. Borton; testimonies concerning Robert Walker (1717-1785), Esther Tuke (d. 1794); printed genealogy of Cadbury family; printed genealogical charts of Cope, Garrett and Price families compiled by Gilbert Cope; printed transcriptions and facsimiles of two letters (1659-1660) of William Dyer concerning his wife, Mary Dyer; translations of three letters and advertisements concerning 1785 Friends in France; approx. 100 letters (photocopies) of Herbert Hoover to Levi T. Pennington; two issues (1838) of "The Social Magazine of the Penn Literary Society of Philadelphia"; photocopies of three issues (1872-1873) of "The Maryville Monitor" (Maryville, Tennessee); letter to Ohio Yearly Meeting from New England Yearly Meeting (1828) touching on Hicksite controversy; letters and documents related to the Quakers exiled to Winchester, Va. during the Revolutionary War.

ca. 168 items (1 box)

Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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New England Yearly Meeting of Friends

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Dyer, William, -1696

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William Dyer was a contemporary of the polar explorers Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) and Sir James Clark Ross (1800-1862). From the guide to the William Dyer collection, 1848, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) Epithet: Perpetual Curate of Imber, county Wiltshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000752.0x000237 ...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928

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Pennington, Levi T. (Levi Talbott), 1875-1975

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President, Pacific College, Newberg, Oregon. From the description of Levi Talbott Pennington correspondence, 1928-1962, with Herbert Hoover. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869748 Biographical/Historical Note President, Pacific College, Newberg, Oregon. From the guide to the Levi Talbott Pennington correspondence with Herbert Hoover, 1928-1962, (Hoover Institution Archives) Levi T. Penn...

Garrett family.

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Walker, Robert, 1717-1785

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Robert Walker was born the 17th of the 3rd month 1717 (old style), the son of John and Sarah Walker of Batley, Yorks. He was appointed an Elder when young and was very serviceable in meetings for discipline. He became a clothier. He married in 1743, at Liversedge, Hannah Firth, daughter of Jacob Firth of Liversedge, Torks. They lived at Gildersome, near Leeds. In 1751 he was called to the ministry, in which he appeared with few words and mostly in his home neighborhood until 1756, after wh...

Price family.

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Borton, George B., ca. 1830-1916.

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Dyer, Mary, -1660

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Tuke, Esther Maud, 1727?-1794.

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Cope family.

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Cadbury family.

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