Brinton, Howard Haines (24 July 1884–09 April 1973), and Anna Shipley Cox Brinton (19 October 1887–28 October 1969), Quaker educators, were born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Iowa, respectively. Howard was the son of Edward Brinton and Ruthanna Brown, farmers. Anna was the daughter of Charles E. Cox, a businessman and educator, and Lydia Shipley Bean. Howard Brinton attended high school in West Chester and received a B.A. from Haverford College in 1904 with a specialization in science. After spending an extra year studying mysticism with Haverford professor of philosophy ...
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Brinton, Howard Haines (1884-1973), Quaker educators
J. William Frost
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Jay, Allen (1831-1910), Quaker minister and educator
Thomas Hamm
Jay, Allen (11 October 1831–08 May 1910), Quaker minister and educator, was born in Miami County, Ohio, the son of Isaac Jay, a farmer and Quaker minister, and Rhoda Cooper. The Jays were a large and prominent Quaker family, and Allen Jay spent his early life in a Quaker community surrounded by relatives. He received his early education in Quaker schools in Miami and Montgomery counties, Ohio. In 1850 his family moved to Grant County, Indiana. Jay subsequently attended the Friends Boarding School (now Earlham College) at Richmond, Indiana, the Farmers Institute Academy near Lafayette, Indiana, and Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio). On 20 September 1854 he was married at Farmers Institute to Martha Ann Sleeper; they had five children....
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Malone, John Walter (1857-1935), Quaker minister and educator
Thomas D. Hamm
Malone, John Walter (11 August 1857–30 December 1935), Quaker minister and educator, was born near Marathon, Clermont County, Ohio, the son of John C. Malone and Mary Ann Pennington, farmers. When he was young, his family moved to the strongly Quaker community of New Vienna, Ohio. He attended public schools there and spent one term at Earlham College, a Quaker school in Richmond, Indiana, before entering the Chickering Institute, a preparatory school in Cincinnati. He graduated in 1877....
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Murray, Lindley (1745-1826), grammarian and Quaker moralist
Hugh Barbour
Murray, Lindley (22 April 1745–16 January 1826), grammarian and Quaker moralist, was born in Swetara, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the son of Mary Lindley and Robert Murray. His father’s success as a merchant took the family from North Carolina to New York City. Lindley and his brother, John Murray, Jr., were sent to the Friends School in Philadelphia but were then summoned as apprentices in their father’s firm, Murray, Sansom & Co., which became the largest New York shipowners. To assert his independence, Lindley ran away to school, to the Quaker Academy in Burlington, New Jersey. Discovered by his uncle ...
