Creator: Elkinton, David Cope, 1915- - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Collection includes correspondence, administrative files, flyers, publicity materials, newspaper clippings, photos.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 53 linear ft. (132 boxes)
Abstract:: Contains the papers of the Elkinton Family, a Quaker family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and its vicinity. Joseph Elkinton was born in Salem, New Jersey, in 1794 and settled in Philadelphia where he established a soap manufacturing business which eventually became the Philadelphia Quartz Company. He was involved with the Seneca Indians at the Quaker school at Tunesassa (Quaker Bridge), New York, where his oldest son, Joseph Scotton Elkinton, was born in 1830. The latter was a Quaker minister and involved with the resettlement of the Doukhobors in Canada. His oldest son, Joseph Elkinton, was active in the Society of Friends in the Midwest and traveled to Japan and China on religious visits. His sister, Mary Passmore Elkinton, married the Japanese diplomat, Dr. Inazo Nitobe, in 1891. His son, Joseph Passmore Elkinton, married Mary Russell Bucknell in 1909; after Mary's death in 1929, he married Anna Bassett Griscom, a Hicksite minister, in 1931. J. Passmore also was a Quaker...(see more)

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:: This photograph album follows David Cope Elkinton's junior year abroad as he travelled with a group of friends through pre-WWII Europe and the Mediterranean. The album covers the years 1934 and 1935, though the album is non-chronological and omits large periods of time.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: .01 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: This collection consists of 4 letters between David Elkinton, Curt and Rosalie Regen, and Koozma Tarasoff discussing a trip to visit Doukhobor families, as well as a message relating to the Canadian Yearly Meetings and Friends Journals, and a list of Doukhobor families.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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