Papers 1857-1922.

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Papers 1857-1922.

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Family correspondence of the Haines family and the diaries of Anna P. Haines (1870, 1881-93, 1895, 1896, 1916). Correspondents include their oldest son, T. Harvey Haines, particularly while he was a student at Westtown. Also includes letters of Zebedee Haines to his wife, describing his visits to Tunesassa and to native American groups in Nova Scotia with Joseph S. Elkinton in 1903, and of his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Haines, who taught at Tunesassa from 1908-09.

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Westtown Boarding School

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Friends Boarding School for Indian Children (Tunesassa, N.Y.)

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Haines, Thomas Harvey

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Elkinton, Joseph Scotton, 1830-1905

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Joseph Scotton Elkinton (1830-1905), a Quaker, attended Westtown School in Westtown, PA, and with his brother, Thomas, went into the soap business, which later became the Philadelphia Quartz Company. He was instrumental in garnering interest and securing aid for the Doukhobors, a religious group which emigrated from Russia to Canada. He was a minister in the Society of Friends. In 1856, he married Malinda Patterson. He was author of Arrival of Doukhobors in Canada from Cyprus. From t...

Haines, Anna P. (Anna Philips), 1849-1924

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Haines, Zebedee, 1843-1923.

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Zebedee Haines was a Quaker who was active in the work of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends and of its Indian Committee in the late 19th century. Zebedee was born in New Jersey, the son of Zebedee and Elizabeth Hendrikson Haines of Medford. He entered the Westtown School as a student in 1860, and subsequently served as teacher, administrator, and school committee member until his retirement in 1918. He married Anna P. Harvey, an assistant teacher, in 1870. The H...