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Emily Cooper Johnson Family Papers

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Call Number:
RG5.078
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG 5/078, Emily Cooper Johnson Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1884-1964 (inclusive)
Creator:
Johnson, Emily Cooper, Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926, Rushmore, Jane P. (Jane Peter), 1864-1958, and Swarthmore College
Form:
biographies (documents)
Abstract:
Emily Cooper Johnson was a Quaker author and reformer, born 1885 and died 1966 The collection contains correspondence, articles, reviews, and other papers, relating to Johnson's books, Dean Bond of Swarthmore: A Quaker Humanist (1927), and Under Quaker Appointment: The Life of Jane P. Rushmore (1955); together with business and financial papers, family marriage certificates, reference materials, clippings, and photos.

Emily Cooper Johnson was a Quaker author, peace activist, and social reformer. She was born in 1885 in Camden, New Jersey. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1907 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academcy of the Fine ARts. She married Edwin J. Johnson in 1915 under the care of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting..

Emily Cooper Johnson revised and updated her father's book, Historical Sketch of Camden, co-edited The Children's Story Caravan, and wrote a biographies of Elizabeth Powell Bond and Jane Rushmore, and edited Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader. She was active in the American Friends Service Committee and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, where she served as president. She died April 11, 1966.

The collection contains correspondence, articles, reviews, and other papers, relating to Johnson's books, Dean Bond of Swarthmore: A Quaker Humanist (1927), and Under Quaker Appointment: The Life of Jane P. Rushmore (1955); together with The collection contains correspondence, articles, reviews, and other papers, relating to Johnson's books, Dean Bond of Swarthmore: A Quaker Humanist (1927), and Under Quaker Appointment: The Life of Jane P. Rushmore (1955); together with business and financial papers, family marriage certificates, reference materials, clippings, and photos.

The collection is divided into four series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Business and financial
  3. Pictures
  4. Miscellaneous

Accession information

Donor: Emily Cooper Johnson, ca. 1965

The collection was given by Emily Cooper Johnson, who also donated the Cooper Family Papers, RG5/031 in 1959-1962.

Unprocessed when received. Sorted and described, marriage certificates transferred to FHL Marriage Certificates. Some obituaries and related material in Johnson's clippings file transfered to PG 7, Biographical and genealogical reference files for access.

See also:

  1. Cooper Family Papers, RG 5/031

The following marriage certificates from the collection were transferred to FHL Marriage Certificates:

  1. Howard M. Cooper to Lucy Smith, 4/22/1884, Race Street Monthly Meeting.
  2. Edwin James John and Emily Smyth Cooper, 5/8/1915, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
ca. 1967
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Letters concerning publication of Dean Bond of Swarthmore.
Box 1
Letters concerning publication of Under Quaker Appointment.
Box 1
General Corresponence.

Various business and Financial papers.
Box 1

Pictures used to illustrate Dean Bond of Swarthmore and snapshots of Jane Rushmore.
Box 1

Reference material.
Box 1
Clippings, primarily concerning her publications.
Box 1

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