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Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting Collection. FRG 8.

The Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting Collection consists of records deposited by monthly meetings of the yearly meeting. They include Clear Creek, Hopewell, and Whitewater Monthly Meetings. Also included in the collection are two boxes of letters and legal documents relating mainly to Whitewater Monthly Meeting, 1823-1929.

Ohio Yearly Meeting Collection. 1813- . SC 235.

The Ohio Yearly Meeting Collection consists of manuscripts relating to Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative) and its predecessor bodies. Included is a manuscript account of the 1873 yearly meeting session, probably written by a Philadelphia Friend.

Osborn Family Collection. 1827-1957. SC 222.

The Osborn Collection consists of material relating to Charles Osborn (1775-1850), an Orthodox Quaker minister and antislavery leader who lived in North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana. Included is an undated letter of Charles Osborn; an 1827 letter and 1841 address to an abolitionist convention in Union County, Indiana, by his son Isaiah Osborn (1803-1846); and material on the history of Economy, Ind. Purchase from John Nixon Collection, 2002.

Eliza B. (Thornberry) Ogborn Collection. SC 208.

Eliza B. (Thornberry) Ogborn (1820-1908) was an Orthodox Quaker woman and teacher in various places in Ohio and Indiana. This collection consists of her Family Bible record and two receipts for teaching in Clinton County, Ohio, in 1850 and 1853. Gift of Betty Rogers Blickenstaff, 1995.