Foster-Meyers Family Papers, 1765-2000.

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Foster-Meyers Family Papers, 1765-2000.

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

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.

43 boxes ; 21.25 linear ft.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 7625503

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Foster, John, 1926-

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Henry B. Foster (1895-1987) was a Quaker farmer from Rhode Island, and his wife, Thyra Jane Meyers Foster (1898-1984), was a school teacher. Both were active members of Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends. Thyra Jane's father was Joseph E. Meyers (1858-1937), a conservative Orthodox Quaker. In 1880, he moved to Barnesville, Ohio, where he became acquainted with members of Ohio Yearly Meeting. About 1929 he began to compile biographies on Quakers that he knew from his youth in Pennsdale, Pa., a...

Coope, Rachel.

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Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio)

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Foster, Henry C. (Henry Cope), 1895-1987

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Sharpless, Joshua, 1746/7-1826.

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Foster family.

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Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Hickory Grove Quarterly Meeting.

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Foster, Thyra Jane

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Warner family.

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Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends (Providence, R.I.)

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Meyers family.

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New England Yearly Meeting of Friends

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Foster, Thyra Jane, 1898-1984

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Thyra Jane Meyers Foster, a secondary school teacher, author, archivist and Mount Holyoke College graduate, was born on March 12, 1898 in West Branch, Iowa to Joseph E. Meyers, a dairy farmer, and Mary Meyers. She attended Westtown Preparatory School in Westtown, Pennsylvania and went to Mount Holyoke College from 1917-1921, graduating with a B.A. in chemistry and minors in zoology and physiology. She married Henry C. Foster, a farmer, on September 5, 1924 and had three children. She taught high...

Sharpless, Edith Yarnall, 1743-1787.

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Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937

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Joseph E. Meyers (1858-1937), the son of William D. and Mary Warner Meyers, was a Conservative Orthodox Quaker, raised in Pennsdale, Pennsylvania, as a member of Muncy Monthly Meeting. He attended Westtown School and worked as a school teacher and, later, farmer in Iowa and Ohio. He was a member of Stillwater Monthly Meeting of Friends for much of his life. From the description of Papers, 1869-1940, bulk 1928-1929. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 36099134 Joseph Me...

Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- )

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In 1808 Redstone, Salem, and Short Creek quarterly meetings, originating within the Baltimore Yearly Meeting, requested a new yearly meeting west of the Allegheny Mountains. The Ohio Yearly Meeting "set off" in 1813 included Ohio, Indiana Territory, and adjacent parts of Pennsylvania and Indiana. In 1820, the Ohio Yearly Meeting parented the Indiana Yearly Meeting. Three schisms occurred in the Society of Friends: in 1828 followers of Elias Hicks (Hicksites) separated from the orthodox Friends; ...