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Alva P. Macy Collection. 1848-1872. SC 186.

Alva P. Macy (born 1858) was an Orthodox Friend of White Lick Monthly Meeting, Morgan County, Ind. The collection consists of his diary for the year 1872, typescripts of letters of his parents, William M. and Julia Ann (Mills) Macy, and an oil portrait of Alva P. Macy as a young man. Gift, 1999.

Alvah J. Macy Account Book. 1839-1851. SC 215.

Alvah J. Macy (1813-1852) was a Quaker merchant and farmer who also operated a sawmill near Economy, Wayne County, Ind. This account book reflects his business and Indiana rural life generally in the period and includes the names of numerous area residents. Gift of Milton Hadley, 1960.

William Macy Autobiography. SC 220.

William Macy (1786-1869) was a Quaker farmer born in Guilford County, North Carolina, who moved to Tennessee as a young man and to Indiana in 1820, where he lived in Randolph and Morgan counties. The autobiography gives a vivid picture of life on the Tennessee and Indiana frontiers between 1800 and 1820. Purchase from John Nixon Collection, 2002.

Williams Austin Macy Collection. 1905-1937. SC 306.

William Austin Macy (born 1862) was a resident of Westchester County, New York. This collection consists of material that he gathered on his Quaker ancestry and that of his wife, Marion (Wright) Macy. Included is a lengthy transcription of a Bible record of the Quaker Wright and Dunbar families of New York. Purchase, 2009.

J. Walter Malone Collection. SC 114.

J. Walter Malone (1857-1935) was a leading minister of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Damascus) and the founder of the Cleveland Bible Institute, now Malone College. The collection consists of material assembled by John Oliver of Malone College, including a family history, "A Brief History of the Remarkable Malones," by Ralph H. Waterbury, and interviews with family and students. Gift of John Oliver, 1991.

Marriage Certificate Collection. SC 154.

Individual Quaker marriage certificates.

David Marshall Collection. SC 112.

David Marshall (1821-1890) was a prominent Friend of Carthage, Rush County, Ind. The collection consists of a draft of a letter from Marshall to Oliver P. Morton, governor of Indiana, 8th Mo. 13, 1862, concerning conscientious objection by Quaker men. Also included is a copy of the letter received by Morton, now in the Indiana State Archives, and correspondence between Ruth Hoskins and Opal Thornburg, Earlham archivist, concerning the letter in 1972.

Mary F. Thomas Woman's Christian Temperance Union Collection. 1896-1921. FRG 13.

The Mary F. Thomas WCTU consisted of residents of Richmond, Indiana, mostly Quakers. The collection consists of minute books for 1898-1921, a journal kept by Rowena Randle while attending the national WCTU convention in Omaha in 1909, and miscellaneous correspondence and programs. Acquired 1990.

Mather Family Collection. 1838-1939. SC4.

Papers of the family of Benjamin Mather (1822-1887) and wife Ruth (Brown) Mather (1826-1909), Orthodox Friends of Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio. Includes commonplace books of Ruth Brown, an 1888 diary of Mary Anna Mather (1855-1930), letters of Charles Mather (1868-1917) written in 1890 while a student at Earlham College, deeds and legal papers, and photographs, including women temperance crusaders in Waynesville in 1874. Gift of Allan F. Mather, 1991-1992.

Ira Maxwell Journal. 1858-1883. SC 216.

Ira Maxwell (1820-1874) was a farmer, pumpmaker, and mechanic in Union County, Ind. Born a Quaker, he lost his membership in 1844, a year before his marriage to Mary C. Stanford (1824-1893). She apparently continued the journal after his death. The sparse entries depict life in rural Indiana: mostly work, births, marriages, and deaths, with almost no attention to national events. Photocopy; gift of Robert Slagle, 2002.

Miriam A. Maxwell Collection. 1888-1896. SC 294.

Miriam A. Maxwell was born in Richmond, Indiana, in 1869, the daughter of John M. and Mary Ann (Moore) Maxwell. In 1898, she married William W. Ives, a gry goods merchant in Delphi, Indiana, and Shawnee, Oklahoma. The collection consists of calling cards, invitations, wedding announcements, and two long letters about social life in Richmond. Purchase and gift, 2009.

Nancy Parker McDowell Papers. SC 147.

Nancy Parker McDowell is the wife of James McDowell, professor of psychology at Earlham from 1951 to 1980. The collection consists of copies of letters written while she was teaching at the Friends School at Ramallah, Palestine, 1939-1940, and poems written for Earlham events from the 1950s to to the 1980s. Gift of Nancy McDowell, 1993.

Medieval Manuscripts Collection. SC 284.

This small collection consists of leaves of illuminated manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Elwood J. Meredith Papers, 1950-1954. SC 276.

Elwood J. Meredith (1902-1967) was a 1924 graduate of Earlham College, a physician, and an active member of First Friends Meeting in Richmond, Indiana. This small collection relates to Meredith’s service on the Building Committee of the Five Years Meeting of Friends in 1950-54, which oversaw the construction of the present Friends united Meeting headquarters. Donation, 2007.

Messenger of Peace Collection. 1887-1894. FRG 10.

The Messenger of Peace, founded by Daniel Hill in 1867, was an Orthodox Quaker periodical that advocated pacifism and the Peace Testimony of Friends. This collection consists of Hill's subscription book for 1887-1894.

Ernest E. Mills Papers. 1841-1986. FMS 38.

Ernest E. Mills (b. 1917) was a Quaker businessman and farmer of Henry County, Ind., a member of the Earlham Board of Trustees, and an active Friend. The Mills Papers include materials on genealogy, his efforts to obtain conscientious objector status during World War II, and his and his parents' peace work in Indiana Yearly Meeting.

John H. Mills Collection. SC 145.

John H. Mills (1843-1923) was a Quaker farmer who spent his life in the vicinity of Mooresville, Ind. The collection consists of his discharge certificate from the 121st Indiana Infantry, 1865. Gift of White Lick Monthly Meeting, 1993.

Richard and Nancy (Osborn) Mills Family Record. SC 35.

Richard Mills (1783-1847) and wife Nancy Osborn (1793-1855) were Quakers who moved from North Carolina first to Clinton County, Ohio, and then to Randolph County, Ind. This family record, kept for several generations, gives their ancestors and descendants. Typescript.

Samuel C. Mills Collection. 1890-1900. FMS 84.

Samuel C. Mills (1859-1900) was a Quaker pastor who served as superintendent of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Gurneyite) from 1895 to 1898. The collection consists of miscellaneous notebooks, mainly sermon notes and outlines. Gift of John E. Mills, 1998. Finding aid.

Sumner A. Mills Collection. 1917-1980. FMS 83.

Sumner Amos Mills (1895-1984) was a Quaker farmer and businessman of West Newton, Ind., and a 1920 graduate of Earlham College. Active in Quaker affairs, he served with the Friends Reconstruction Unit in France during World War I, was presiding clerk of Western Yearly Meeting and the Five Years Meeting, and was one of the founders of the Friends Committee on National Legislation. The collection consists of diaries, photographs, and correspondence. Gift of John E. Mills. 1998. Finding aid.

Mary E. Minnick Scrapbook. 1935-1936. FMS 118.

Mary E. Minnick (1907-1985) was an Earlham College student in 1925-1926. In 1935-1936 she was a teacher in the Friends School at Ramallah, Palestine. This scrapbook reflects her year at the school. Gift of Morrisson-Reeves Library, 2004.

Amy Moore Collection. SC 116.

Amy (Thompson) Moore (1788-1877) was a Friend of Lick Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, Ind. The collection consists of a memorial of Lick Creek Monthly Meeting, 1879.

Joseph E. Moore Collection. SC 150.

Joseph E. Moore (1868- ) was a native of Richmond, Ind. This autobiographical fragment deals with the family of his parents, the Moore and Bain families, and his relationship with Earlham president Joseph J. Mills.

Lydia Stanton Moore Collection. SC 125.

Lydia (Stanton) Moore (1839- ) was a student at Earlham College in 1862-1863. Born at Springborough, Warren County, Ohio, she was the daughter of Joseph and Catherine Ann (Stanton) Stanton and married Walter Moore in 1869. They lived in Washington and Hamilton counties, Ind. From 1893 to 1905 she was the Earlham postmistress. She died in Los Angeles. The collection consists of her recipe book, ca. 1870. Gift of Helen Carter Sprandling.

Mooresville High School Collection. FRG 17.

Mooresville High School was founded in 1861 as an academy under the care of the White Lick Quarterly Meeting of Friends. This collection consists of a history written by Rebecca S. Hardin 1971.

Homer and Edna Wright Morris Collection. 1911-1966. FMS 6.

Homer L. Morris (1886-1951) and Edna (Wright) Morris (1884-1966) were both Earlham alumni and prominent Quakers. This collection reflects his career as an academic economist and longtime member of the Earlham College board, and especially their work for the American Friends Service Committee. Finding aid.

Sarah Ann Morris Collection. SC 161.

Sarah Ann (Hill) Gray Morris (1827-1903) was a Quaker living in the Walnut Ridge community of Friends in Rush County, Ind. The collection consists of a scrapbook with a number of obituaries, 1866-1903, of Walnut Ridge Friends, and a photograph album with photos of area Friends and prominent ministers such as John Henry Douglas, Robert W. Douglas, Jane Jones, and Rufus King.

Marcus Mote Collection. 1835-1970. FMS 5.

Marcus Mote (1817-1898) was a Quaker artist of Lebanon, Ohio, and Richmond, Ind., best known for his portraits of Quakers. The Mote Collection consists of diaries, notebooks, correspondence, and works by Mote, as well as research material on Mote gathered by former Earlham College Archivist Opal Thornburg.

Mote-Kersey Family Papers. SC 34.

Two notebooks compiled by Luke Smith Mote (1812-1898), Friend and historian of West Branch Meeting, Miami County, Ohio, entitled "Note Book on West Branch" and "Sketch Book of Lineal Descent; or Genealogical Register of the Mote & Mendenhall Families" (1855). Also W. Rufus Kersey, "Traditions and Incidents of Family History," 1916, concerning the Steddom family of Bush River, South Carolina, and Warren County, Ohio. Photocopies; gift of Richard M. Kelly of Baltimore, 1991.

Lucretia Mott Collection. SC 149.

Memorabilia of Lucretia (Coffin) Mott (1793-1880), Quaker minister, feminist, and reformer of Philadelphia. The collection consists of three photographs of Mott and an inscription written in 1878.

Mount Pleasant Free Labor Store Collection. SC 225.

This collection consists of a list of stockholders in a "Free Labor Store," one that sold no goods produced by slave labor, in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. Although undated, it probably dates from about 1850. Transferred from Harlow Lindley Collection.

P.B. and Sylvia (Besser) Myers Collection. SC 138.

Pettit B. Myers (1892-1983) and wife Sylvia Estella (Besser) Myers (1887-1935) were members of Vermillion Friends Church near Alexandria, Ind. The collection consists of their marriage certificate from Delaware County, Ind., 1913, and photographs of their homes. Gift of Sarah Ann (Myers) Voyles and Mildred Louise Myers, 1987.