Quaker Collections Update
Wilmington College - Watson LibrarySpecial Newsletter for the 2014Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting
FromJean Mulhern, Director, and Patti Kinsinger, Facilitator of Quaker Collections
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July 25, 2014
WATSON LIBRARY – WE CARE ABOUT OVYM INFORMATION AND HISTORYfeatures prominently in theholdings and deposit collectionsof the Quaker Rare area of Watson Library, Wilmington College.There are meeting minutes, reports, published materials, as well asprivate collections donated by Friends members.
Great News! WURC / NPS NetworkThe Waynesville Underground Railroad Committee (WURC) Last year’s Quaker Collections Update reported on the Waynesville Underground Railroad Committee (WURC) and their multiple research trips to Watson Library to study Miami Monthly Meeting minutes, both Hicksite and Orthodox. WURC representatives from the Mary L. Cook Public Library, the Museum at the Friends’ Home, Pioneer Village, the Harveysburg community, and others collaborated on the process to apply for Network to Freedom status. Network to Freedom locations may be sites, programs or facilities; WURC’s 44-page application for its educational program for 6th-graders, Waynesville's Role in the Underground Railroad, was approved by the National Park Service in March 2014.
Miami’s monthly meeting minutes are specifically mentioned as supporting historical documents in Waynesville’s online Network to Freedom program description.
The Network to Freedom demonstrates “the significance of the Underground Railroad not only in the eradication of slavery, but as a cornerstone of our national civil rights movement,” according to the National Parks Service website. Watson Library congratulates Waynesville on this successful outcome and achievement for Warren County!
Research TipsSee Special Collection and Gallery links on our Watson Library homepage within the Wilmington College website or this express link:
[Note the Quaker tab]
Watson Library’s digitization program for Special Collections continues while we search for an accessible repository solution to make digital content available to the public.
Researchers – Call Ahead !!!!
Advance planning is essential for researchers because Watson Library cannot accommodate walk-in visitors to the “Quaker Rare” collections. We need to coordinate staff schedules and gather the requested resources.
Please contact us first via this email: or this telephone number to discuss your research needs: 937-382-6661 ext. 345.
World War I Centennial Update: Watson Librarians prepared several archival collections featuring WWI Quaker conscientious objectors that have recently attracted historians developing commemorative projects. The Quaker perspective is well represented through these excellent personal archives.
Do you have family archives related to WWI or Quaker history? Please consider making the content available to your extended family and to historians through digitization and/or donation – Watson Library might be able to help.
Deposits of all meeting minutes and other publications (or copies/scans; paper-disc-email) are strongly encouraged and are very welcome.
PRESERVE YOUR MEETING’S HISTORY by depositing copies of minutes and publications with Wilmington College Watson Library annually.
Not sure when your meeting last made a deposit? – contact Patti Kinsinger for more information 937-382-6661 x441.
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NEWS ABOUT WATSON LIBRARY’S QUAKER COLLECTIONS AND SERVICES
Miami Monthly Meeting Quaker Homecoming
Watson Library hosted visitors from Miami MM’s Homecoming celebration on September 20th, 2013. Participants toured the Quaker Collections and discussed digitization of Quaker records at Watson Library. They also had the opportunity to browse and research in Miami, Center, Caesar’s Creek, Green Plain and other early Indiana YM records, most related to Bush River (South Carolina) MM origins.
To request a group tour of the Quaker Rare and Circulating Collections, e-mail , or contact us at Watson Library (937) 382-6661, ext. 345. Please contact us at least one month ahead of your prospective visit.
Quaker research topics for 2013-14
Maple Grove MM; Lafayette MM; the Gist Settlement; Virgie Hortenstine; “kitchen schools” connected with Hillsboro 1956 desegregation; those who had CO (conscientious objector) status during WWI from this area; John Henry Douglas; Quakers in film; 1929 Wilmington Peace Conference; meeting minutes in Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Maryland; Friends Conference on Peace and Reconstruction, 1942; Miami MM; Turtle Creek MM; Quakers in Barbados; Messenger of Peace and Advocate of Peace (publications); introductory writings on Quakerism; Whitewater MM; Yellow Springs MM; Richard Larkin, WWI conscientious objector; Sherborn MM.
Deposits to Ohio Valley YM archives included the following records:
Campus (2013-2014); Community (1991-2008); East Cincinnati (1955-1961); Miami MM (2012); and Yellow Springs (1940 -2011). Thanks for preserving your Monthly Meeting’s history!
Quaker genealogy searchers during the past year pursued these family names:
Bocock, Carter, Clark, Connor, Cook, Evans, Farr, Glass, Hall, Hodgson/Hodson, Hope, Johnson, Jones, Larkin, Luddington, Macy, Moorman, Morris, Purdue, Rosser, Sharp, Shipley, Snider/Snyder, Stewart, Taylor, Townsend, Wakeman, Watson, Wood.
WATSON LIBRARY – WE CARE ABOUT OVYM INFORMATION AND HISTORYPreservation News
Burt Weston, past researcher in the Ohio Valley YM Archives, made another generous donation this past year toward digitization of Miami records. We are grateful for Burt’s continued support of the collections.
Ancestry.com has recently added extensive online documentation of Quaker history, an estimated 11.5 million records.Watson Library Director Jean Mulhern says, “Ancestry.com has become my first choice resource for tracing and enriching the stories of area Quakers.” Although Ancestry.com is a subscription database ($240 annually), some Ohio public libraries offer a version of it for in-house use. Interested in seeing the list of Ancestry’s Quaker resources? E-mail and Watson librarians will send it to you. Email only.
Donations to the Quaker Rare collections are appreciated for preservation supplies and print acquisitions. Please direct donations of money to the Quaker Rare Library Restricted Fund, c/o the Advancement Office, Pyle Box 1307, Wilmington College, Wilmington OH 45177.
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