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American Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-003
Overview
In the 1820s William Ladd of the Maine Peace Society suggested that the regional US peace societies become associated in a national organization. As a result, the peace societies of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) merged in May 1828 to form the American Peace Society [APS]. The stated purpose of the American Peace Society was to "promote permanent international peace through justice; and to advance in every proper way the general use of...
Dates:
1828-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Christian Arbitration and Peace Society Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Christian Arbitration and Peace Society
Dates:
1886-1895
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Christian Arbitration and Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-006
Overview
The Christian Arbitration and Peace Society was founded in 1886 in Philadelphia as a branch of the American Peace Society.
Dates:
1886-1896
Martha Schofield Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-134
Overview
Martha Schofield (1839-1916) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher from Pennsylvania who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, S. C., in 1868 to provide education for formerly enslaved people. The School gradually evolved into a boarding school for training young blacks in industrial trades or to become teachers. It was absorbed into the public school system in 1952. Martha Fell Schofield was born Feb. 1, 1839, near Newtown, Bucks County, PA. She was the daughter of Oliver W....
Dates:
1853-1944 (bulk 1856-1916)
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- American Peace Society 3
- Alexander, Joseph G. (Joseph Gundry), 1848- 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- American League for Peace and Democracy 1
- Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923 1
- Beals, Charles Edward, 1869-1931 1
- Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 1
- Call, Arthur Deerin, 1869-1941 1
- Dutton, Samuel Train, 1849-1919 1
- Eckstein, Anna B., 1868-1947 1
- Hall, James Jabez, 1849-1921 1
- Ikemoto, Seichi 1
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 1
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 1
- Peckover, Priscilla Hannah, 1833-1931 1
- Richard, Ernst D., 1859-1914 1
- Root, Robert Cromwell, 1858- 1
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 1
- Schofield, Martha 1
- Suttner, Bertha von, 1843-1914 1
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 1
- Trueblood, Sarah H. 1
- Tryon, James L. (James Libby), 1864-1958 1
- White, Frederick 1
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