%eadnotat; ]> 5250bawo Finding aid for Bailey-Wood Family Papers, 1847-1957 Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 2007 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by FHL Staff, 2007 ENG Finding aid for Bailey-Wood Family Papers, 1847-1957 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 2007 Descriptive Summary Bailey-Wood Family Papers 1847-1957 RG5/250 1 box ; .5 linear feet 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. This collection contains papers of the Bailey and Wood families, including diaries and school lesson books of Edith M. B. Wood and an account book kept by her husband, Herbert W. Wood, a Quaker pastor. Also family correspondence, 1847-1859, primarily to Edith's mother, and a small number of miscellaneous Quaker-related items. Edith Maria Bailey, a Gurneyite Friend, was born in 1877. In 1901, she married Herbert Wilbur Wood. Herbert Wood was born in 1881 and served as pastor at Unadilla Friends Church, N.Y., and New Sharon Friends Church, 1924-1927, in Iowa.

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

Edith Maria Bailey, a Gurneyite Friend, was born on January 17, 1877, in Litchfield, Maine, and later moved to New York, Massachusetts, and Iowa. She was the daughter of Mary Nichols Bailey and William Haskell Bailey, and she was active in her Quaker meetings.

On June 12, 1901, Edith Bailey married Herbert Wilbur Wood, son of Edward George Wood and Olive Edna Sherbondy. Herbert was born on June 26, 1881. About 1917, they moved to Athens, Maine (a town in Somerset County) with their three children: Edith Viola Wood, Vernice B. Wood, and Myrtle V. Wood. In June 1918, they transferred to Unadilla Monthly Meeting, New York, where their eldest daughter Viola soon died. Herbert was Pastor of the Friends Church. About 1922 they moved to South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to pastor the Friends Meeting there. In 1923, the family transferred to Iowa Falls Monthly Meeting, Iowa, and the following year, they moved to New Sharon MM where Herbert served as pastor 1924-1927 and about 1929-1939. He then pastored at Rubio Friends until near his death in 1945.

 SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS

This collection contains Edith's diaries from when she was 16 years old until she was 30, with gaps between 1896 and 1903; they describe attending church meetings, Bible school, and married life. The grammar and composition books include essays written by Edith Bailey and Bible studies lessons. Herbert Wood's account books document the family's finances from 1892 until 1914. Letters from various family members and friends to Edith's mother, Mary Bailey, give an account of daily life, 1847-1859. Other materials show the involvement of Edith and Herbert Wood in Quaker churches in New York, Iowa, and Maine.

Organized into four series:

Organization: Diaries and Notebooks Correspondence Financial Miscellaneous ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: Phyllis Blume, 6/7/2005 (Accession number: 2005-012)

Access

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], Bailey-Wood Family Papers, RG5/250, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

 Processing information

Photocopy of contents made by donor at time of donation. Genealogical information compiled by donor stored in folder at beginning of collection.

 SELECTED SEARCH TERMS DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

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:

Quakers -- Maine Quakers -- Iowa Society of Friends -- Maine Society of Friends -- Iowa Evangelical Quakers Bailey Family Wood Family Women, Quaker Wood, Edith M.B. (Edith Maria Bailey), b. 1877 Wood, Herbert Wilbur, b. 1881 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

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

 Series 1: Edith M. Bailey Wood Diaries and Notebooks (1888-1984) Diary 1/1/1893- 12/31/1893 1 folder 1 Diary 1/1/1894 - 12/31/1894 1 folder 1 Diary 1/1/1896 - 9/30/1896 1 folder 1 Diary 4/14/1903 -4/11/1905 1 folder 1 Diary 4/12/1905 -6/1908 1 folder 1 Bailey, Edith M. : Composition Book ca. 1892 1 folder 1

Essays, letter, and books read

 Bailey. Edith M. : Grammar Topics Notebook ca. 1888 1 folder 1

Notebook with lessons on grammar and added entries by another writer on Bible studies

 Bailey, Edith M. : Bible Studies Notebook ca. 1890 1 folder 1

Lessons on Devil/Satan and How To Read the Bible.

 Series 2: Bailey Family Correspondence (1847-1859) Letters from Hannah Lizzie Nichols to her sister Mary Nichols Bailey and husband William H. Bailey 1847-1859 1 folder 1 Letters to Mary Nichols Bailey from friends and family 1857-1858 1 folder 1

Includes letter from Jennie (1/7/1857) and letter from Mira

 Series 3: Account books Wood, Herbert W. : Account Book 6/12/1901 - 7/1914 1 folder 1

Bound account book which includes itemized purchases.

 Sunday School Register 12/1/1892 - 1/1905 1 folder 1

Later intended as a scrapbook for Vernice, but never used as such.

 Series 4: Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings (4) ca. 1914 1 folder 1 Public School Admission for Edith M. Bailey 6/18/1892 1 folder 1 Article on daughter of Mary Nichols Jenkins, Lavinia Jenkins Taber, 92d birthday ca. 1914 1 folder 1 Mr. F.C. Bailey's wedding 1 folder 1 Atkinson preached at Friends Church 1 folder 1 Portrait of Dr. Benjamin Trueblood 1 folder 1 Quotations from Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Modern Use of the Bible with a passage on Friends 1 folder 1

Bailey, Edith M. : Nature prose 8/3/1891 1 folder 1 Butternuts Meeting of Friends pamphlet 10/17-18-19/1919 1 folder 1

Pastor at the time was Wood, Herbert W.

Winthrop Monthly Meeting of Friends centennial card 1913 1 folder 1 A Message to Friends in Iowa Yearly Meeting from Hopewell-Rubio Monthly Meeting ca. 1945 1 folder 1 Faith and Practice of the Five Years Meeting of Friends in America 4/1944 1 folder 1

Herbert Wood's personal copy of Faith and Practice of the Five Years Meeting of Friends in America with annotations.

 Friends Church, New Sharon, Iowa, centennial pamphlet 1957 1 folder 1