%eadnotat; ]> 4020bbuc An Inventory of the Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting Records, 1896-1970 Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, December 2000. ENG Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting Records, 1896-1970 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. ca. 1975 Descriptive Summary Records, 1896-1970 RG 4/020 Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting 2 boxes; 1 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. 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. The records include correspondence, minute books, constitution and legal papers, reports, and other papers.

Repository:

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 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.

The collection is organized into 2 series. The series are:

MinutesMiscellaneous Papers

For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting

Date: 1975

 Access

The collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting Records, RG 4/020, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

 Bibliography For a complete history of Friends Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting: Parry, Henry C.: History of the Friends' Boarding Home of Bucks Quarterly Meeting, 1897-1970 (BX7747.8,.B8P2) SELECTED SEARCH TERMS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

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 Newtown (Pa.) -- Charitable and social work -- Old age homesPennsylvania -- Charitable and social work -- Old age homes 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 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

 Ser. 1 Minutes Minutes (Book 1) 1896-1913 1 Minutes (Book 2) 1913-1928 1 Minutes (Book 3) 1928-1947 1 Minutes (Book 4) 1947-1958 2 Minutes (Book 5) 1959-1970 2 Ser. 2 Miscellaneous papers

Miscellaneous papers which were laid in the Minute Books were sorted according to form

 Annual reports 1922-1947 2 Constitution and By-Laws 1914 2 Joseph Jeanes Fund Inquiries 2 Legal Papers, Forms, Resolutions 2 Miscellaneous papers, includes correspondence 1899-1948, n.d. 2