Records 1915-[ongoing].

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Records 1915-[ongoing].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40875872

This collection includes the records of Pendle Hill, a Quaker study and cooperative living center, and of its predecessor, the Woolman School. The records include minutes, student and staff files, course material, financial records, correspondence, and related papers. Of particular interest are the correspondence files of the Joseph and Edith Platt, Henry T. Hodgkin, Howard and Anna Cox Brinton, D. Robert Yarnall, and the Board of Directors. Topics of particular interest include the 1998 Conference on "Friends and the Vietnam War."

39 boxes ; 26 linear ft.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 7431022

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Platt, Joseph E. (Joseph Eyre), 1886-1980

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Platt, Edith Stratton, 1888-1986

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Woolman School (Swarthmore, Pa.)

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Yarnall, D. Robert (David Robert), 1878-1967

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Brinton, Howard H. (Howard Haines), 1884-1973

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Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933

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Pendle Hill (School : Wallingford, Pa.)

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Pendle Hill is a Quaker study center located in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1930 out of an earlier Quaker institution, the Woolman School. The Woolman School was established in 1915 under the care of the General Conference Committee of the Seven Yearly Meetings (Hicksite). In 1917, it was reorganized as a joint enterprise of Hicksite and Orthodox Friends, and was governed by a Board of Managers. The Woolman School was incorporated in 1918. In 1928, i...

Brinton, Anna Cox

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Joel Bean (1825-1914) was a Quaker minister associated with the "Beanite" branch of Quakerism. Born in New Hampshire, he moved to West Branch, Iowa as a young man, where he met and married Hannah Elliot Shipley. Joel was appointed clerk of Iowa Yearly Meeting in 1867, and the couple went on a ministry tour of Europe from 1872-1873. When they returned from the trip to Europe the Beans could not approve of the direction the revival movement among Friends in Iowa had taken. The revival...