An Inventory of the Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting Records, 1896-1970
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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
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Encoded Archival Description
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002
collection
Records, 1896-1970
Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting
Biographical History for: Records, 1896-1970
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting, a Quaker boarding home for the aged in Newtown. Pennsylvania, was opened in 1897 and incorporated in 1899. In 1900 it moved to a new building erected on Congress Street, with funds given by Edward M. Paxson in memory of his parents. In 1896 Bucks Quarterly Meeting appointed a committee to determine the need for a Home for Friends within the Bucks Quarter. In 1897 the Committee rented the property of Dr. Lettie A. Smith in Newtown, Pa., for a Friends Boarding Home. The Home was incorporated in 1899, and a building erected on a lot purchased from Emmor K. Janney, located between Congress Street and Centre Avenue in Newtown, Pa., with funds given by Judge Edward M. Paxson in memory of his parents. The Home was completed and transferred to the Bucks Quarterly Meeting in 1900.
SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS This collection contains the records of the Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting, located in Newtown, PA. The records include correspondence, minute books, constitution and legal papers, reports, and other papers.
Aged -- Pennsylvania -- Newtown
Aged -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania
Church work with the aged -- Society of Friends
Church work with the aged -- Pennsylvania
Charities -- Quakers -- Aged
Nonprofit corporations -- Old age home
Old age homes -- Pennsylvania
Quakers -- Pennsylvania
Quakers -- Institutional care -- Pennsylvania
Quakers -- Charities -- Records
Quakers -- Church work with the aged
Quakers -- Old age home -- Pennsylvania
Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania
Society of Friends -- Old age homes
Society of Friends -- Aged -- Institutional care
Society of Friends -- Bucks Quarterly Meeting
Friends Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Newtown, Pa.) -- Records
Newtown (Pa.) -- Charitable and social work -- Old age homes
Pennsylvania -- Charitable and social work -- Old age homes
series
Ser. 1 Minutes
Minutes (Book 1)
Creation of Minutes (Book 1)
Time of Creation of Minutes (Book 1)
Minutes (Book 2)
Creation of Minutes (Book 2)
Time of Creation of Minutes (Book 2)
Minutes (Book 3)
Creation of Minutes (Book 3)
Time of Creation of Minutes (Book 3)
Minutes (Book 4)
Creation of Minutes (Book 4)
Time of Creation of Minutes (Book 4)
Minutes (Book 5)
Creation of Minutes (Book 5)
Time of Creation of Minutes (Book 5)
Ser. 2 Miscellaneous papers
Miscellaneous papers which were laid in the Minute Books were sorted according to form
Annual reports
Creation of Annual reports
Time of Creation of Annual reports
Constitution and By-Laws
Creation of Constitution and By-Laws
Time of Creation of Constitution and By-Laws
Joseph Jeanes Fund Inquiries
Legal Papers, Forms, Resolutions
Miscellaneous papers, includes correspondence