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Manuscript Collections: F

Fairfield Quarterly Meeting Scrapbook. SC 174.

This volume was originally used as a minute book by the women of Fairfield Quarterly Meeting in Western Yearly Meeting. Later, someone converted it to use as a scrapbook, with clippings mainly of poetry and moral essays. Gift of Wilma Reeve Wildman.

Fairmount Academy Collection. 1885-1929. FRG 16.

The Fairmount Academy, a Quaker school, opened in Fairmount, Indiana, in 1885, and functioned as both a Quaker institution and the township school until it closed in 1923. This collection consists of student and financial records and the minutes of the Aurora Literary Society.

Fairmount, Indiana, Women's Christian Temperance Union Records. 1908-1940. FRG 21.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the largest women's organization in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. This collection consists of the minutes of meetings of the auxiliary in Fairmount, Grant County, Indiana, from 1908-1913 and 1926-1940.

Farmer's Institute Collection. 1854-1882. FRG 19.

Farmer's Institute was a Quaker academy near Lafayette, Indiana, opened in 1851 by Greenfield Monthly Meeting. It closed in 1888. This collection consists of the minute book of the Western Literary Union for 1860-1882 and the minutes of the Farmer's Institute Stockholders and Board of Trustees 1854-1876.

Fifty-Seventh Street Meeting, Chicago Collection. 1931-1942. FRG 9.

Fifty-Seventh Street Meeting was formed in 1931 by the merger of the Chicago Executive Committee of Friends of Illinois Yearly Meeting and the 57th Street Preparative Meeting of Western Yearly Meeting. It was thus one of the first joint monthly meetings in North America. The collections consists of minutes, financial records, and correspondence.

Peter Fingesten Collection. 1960-1984. FMS 41.

Peter Fingesten (1916-1987) was a native of Germany who emigrated to the US in 1939. In 1950 he became the founding chairman of the Art Department at Pace University, where he taught until 1986. An active Quaker, he was a frequent contributor to Friends Journal. The Fingesten Collection includes clippings, draft articles, and other writings of Peter Fingesten.

Five Years Meeting/Friends United Meeting Sunday School Publications. 1941-1972. FRG 3.

The Five Years Meeting of Friends (later Friends United Meeting) included Friends in North America, the Caribbean, and Africa. This collection consists of a broken run of Sunday School publications for children and adults.

Mordecai Hiatt Fletcher Papers. SC 106.

Mordecai Hiatt Fletcher (1849- ) was an Orthodox Friend born in Richmond, Ind. who spent most of his life as a physician in Cincinnati. The collection consists of a letter to him from Webster Parry, 1892, giving an outline of Fletcher genealogy, and a transcript of the marriage certificate, 1747, of Joseph Ratliff and Mary Fletcher of Perquimans County, North Carolina.

Joseph Foulke, Jr., Letters. 1845-1869. SC 232.

Joseph Foulke, Jr. (1827-1906) was a Hicksite Quaker teacher and physician who spent most of his life in the Philadelphia area but died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Most of these letters date from 1845 to 1848 and concern Quaker schools. Several are from Joesph Foulke Jr.'s brother Thomas Foulke (1817-1888) of New York City, the father of William Dudley Foulke (1850-1935), the Richmond, Ind., editor and author. Purchase from Southern Cross Books, 2003.

Franklin and Walter Folger Journal, 1866-1904. SC 212.

Benjamin Franklin Folger (1806-1879) and his son Walter Folger (1846-1918) were millers in Rush County, Indiana. This small ledger consists of Franklin Folger's mill accounts from the 1870s and a few diary entries made by Walter Folger between 1899 and 1904. Gift of Dalton Folger, 2001.

Franklin Literary Junto Minute Book. SC 91.

The Franklin Literary Junto was a literary society connected with the Friends monthly meeting school at Bloomingdale, Ind. This volume contains its constitution, minutes 1844-1846, and some essays and poetry, including a poem by Addison Coffin.

Friends Africa Industrial Mission Collection. SC 88.

The Friends Africa Industrial Mission was established by Gurneyite Friends in the US in 1901 for missionary work in Africa. It supported the Friends Mission ar Kaimosi in what is now Kenya. These minutes cover Sept. 20, 1901, to April 27, 1911, when control of the Kaimosi mission was turned over to the American Friends Board of Missions. Photocopy of the original record book at Malone College; gift of John Oliver, 1991.

Friends Committee on Economic Responsibility Papers. 1972-1979. FRG 24.

The Friends Committee on Economic Responsibility was formed in 1972 to encourage Quaker organizations and individuals to consider the social and ethical implications of their investments. This collection consists of board minutes, correspondence, and reports.

Friends For Human Justice Papers. 1970-1974. FRG 26.

Friends for Human Justice was a short-lived Quaker group founded to advance racial, gender and other forms of justice in society and to help eradicate racism with the Society of Friends. This collection consists of board minutes, correspondence, newsletters, reports, and clippings.

Friends Theological Discussion Group Papers. 1958-1988. FRG 27.

The Friends Theological Discussion Group was formed in 1957 by scholars and others interested in exploring the meaning and implications of the Quaker religious experience. Since 1959 it has published the journal Quaker Religious Thought. This collection consists of correspondence and financial records.

Friends United Meeting/Five Years Meeting Collection. 1887-. FRG 37.

The Five Years Meeting of Friends was formed in 1902 to unite Gurneyite Friends in North America under a common discipline and to coordinate their missionary, evangelistic, and humanitarian work. This very large collection includes correspondence, publications, reports, photographs, and other materials reflecting activities of the organization. The name was changed to Friends United Meeting in 1965.

Isaac H. Furnas Papers. 1892-1905. FMS 96.

Isaac Hawkins Furnas (1837-1917) was a Gurneyite Quaker merchant and active Friend who lived in Ohio and in Randolph County, Indiana. This collection consists of letters and reports he received and produced while superintendent of Winchester Quarterly Meeting of Indiana Yearly Meeting. Gift of Willard Heiss, 1972. See also BX 7796 F9.8 A.1.

Helen Finley Fuson Papers. 1970-1976. FMS 53.

Helen Fuson (1913-1988) was a prominent member of West Richmond Friends Meeting, the Earlham College physician, and the wife of longtime Earlham faculty member William M. Fuson. The Fuson Papers consist of correspondence and printed materials reflecting Helen Fuson's work with the AFSC and USFW.