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Guide to the Jenkin Lloyd Jones Papers 1861-1932 University of Chicago Library Guide to the Jenkin Lloyd Jones Papers 1861-1932 © 2010 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Descriptive Summary 3 Information on Use 3 Access 3 Citation 3 Biographical Note 3 Scope Note 5 Related Resources 5 Subject Headings 5 INVENTORY 6 Series I: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Correspondence 6 Series II: Henry Ford Peace Expedition, 1915-1916 15 Series III: Miscellaneous Jenkins Lloyd Jones Materials 16 Series IV: Edith Lackersteen Jones Correspondence 18 Series V: Mary Lackersteen Papers 20 Series VI: Abraham Lincoln Center Materials 21 Series VII: Photographs 23 Descriptive Summary Identifier ICU.SPCL.JONESJL Title Jones, Jenkin Lloyd. Papers Date 1861-1932 Size 8.5 linear feet (17 boxes) Repository Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Abstract Jenkin Lloyd Jones, minister, social reformer. The Jenkin Lloyd Jones papers contain correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs. Papers relate to All Souls Church and the Abraham Lincoln Centre. Other topics include the Unitarian Church, the Henry Ford Peace Expedition, the Western Unitarian Conference, the weekly publication Unity, the World's Parliament of Religion, Tower Hill Summer Camp in Wisconsin, and other aspects of Jones' ministry. Correspondents include William C. Gannett, Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Francis W. Parker, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Booker T. Washington. Also contains papers of Edith Lackersteen Lloyd Jones, Jones's second wife; her daughter, Mary Lackersteen; and the Lackersteen family. Information on Use Access The collection is open for research. Citation When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Jones, Jenkin Lloyd. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Biographical Note Jenkin Lloyd Jones, born in Wales in 1843, was brought to the United States by his parents in 1844 and was raised on a pioneer farm in Wisconsin. Several of his ancestors, including Jenkin Jones and David Lloyd, had been pioneer ministers in the Arminian movement in Wales. Jones enlisted in the Union army during the Civil War as a matter of conscience, fighting in the battles of Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge. He was mustered out in 1865 as a confirmed opponent to war, a position he maintained throughout his life. Upon graduation in 1870 from Meadville Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, he was ordained a Unitarian minister, serving at Winnetka, Illinois, 1870-71, and Janesville, Wisconsin, 1871-80. In 1882, Jones began 3 missionary work on the south side of Chicago, which resulted in the organization of All Souls Church, of which he remained pastor until his death. Jones early in his career was active in forming "Mutual Improvement Clubs", a new idea in church life in the 1870's, a movement that spread and eventually became the "Unity Clubs" found in almost all Unitarian churches of the Middle West. In 1874, Jones became secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference, a position he held until 1884. He infused new life into the dying organization, moved its headquarters to Chicago in 1880, and devoted all of his time to the Conference, giving up his church in Janesville. He helped found the weekly magazine Unity in 1878, dedicated to "Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion," and remained its editor until his death. He set up a Sunday School society which published numerous lessons and vigorous tract-publications. But Jones also led a movement within the Western Conference for ethical rather than theological unanimity as the basis for liberal fellowship. This issue erupted at the Cincinnati meeting of the Conference in 1886, where many of the conservative churches withdrew and the eastern branch of the movement set up a rival organization. Until the breach was healed in 1894, Jones used his editorship of Unity to advance the liberal cause and the magazine became the mouthpiece of the liberal party within the movement. Soon after the foundation of All Souls Church Jones dropped the word "Unitarian". He felt that denomination built a fence around religion and he did not want his church, even by remote implication, to exclude anyone. This church became the nucleus of Jones' even more ambitious project, the Abraham Lincoln Centre, founded in 1905. Lincoln Centre was a combination social, civic and religious center in its early years, with All Souls Church at its core, but it also provided a gymnasium, manual training, domestic science classes, reading rooms, libraries, lecture courses, as well as study classes in subjects including religion, citizenship, literature. Jones' idea of universal religion inspired the World's Parliament of Religion, in connection with the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. He was the moving force behind the movement as well as its General Secretary. He also sailed on the Ford Peace Ship Mission in December 1915 and became the chairman of the Committee of Administration after the withdrawal of Henry Ford due to illness. He maintained his pacifist viewpoint until his death and in 1918 his editorial opposition in Unity to war in general and American participation in World War I led to the suspension of mailing privileges of the magazine by the United States Postmaster-General. Jones also founded the Tower Hill (Wisconsin) Summer Camp in 1889, which gave systematic lectures on literary and liberal religious subjects. He was the author of numerous works, among them: An Artilleryman's Diary (1914); The Faith That Makes Faithful, with W. C. Gannett (1886); Jess: Bits of Wayside Gospel (1899); A Search for an Infidel (1901); and Love for the Battletorn Peoples (1916). He received an honorary LL.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1909. 4 Susan Barber, Jones' first wife died in 1911. In 1915, he married Edith Lackersteen, his longtime associate at Lincoln Centre. Jones died at Tower Hill, Wisconsin, in 1918. Edith Lloyd Jones died in 1932. Scope Note The Jenkin Lloyd Jones papers contain correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs. Papers relate to All Souls Church and the Abraham Lincoln Centre. Other topics include the Unitarian Church, the Henry Ford Peace Expedition, the Western Unitarian Conference, the weekly publication Unity, the World's Parliament of Religion, Tower Hill Summer Camp in Wisconsin, and other aspects of Jones' ministry. Correspondents include William C. Gannett, Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Francis W. Parker, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Booker T. Washington. Also contains papers of Edith Lackersteen Lloyd Jones, Jones's second wife; her daughter, Mary Lackersteen; and the Lackersteen family. The collection is organized into seven series: Series I: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Correspondence; Series II: Henry Ford Peace Expedition, 1915-1916; Series III: Miscellaneous Jenkins Lloyd Jones Materials; Series IV: Edith Lackersteen Jones Correspondence; Series V: Mary Lackersteen Papers; Series VI: Abraham Lincoln Centre Materials; and Series VII: Photographs. Series VII notably includes images of Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Edith Lloyd Jones and others aboard the Ford Peace Ship in 1915, and includes images of the Hillside Home School, a co-educational boarding school established by Jenkin Lloyd Jones’ sisters Jane and Nell in 1887 and located near Spring Green, Wisconsin. The building was designed by their nephew, Frank Lloyd Wright, then an amateur architect in Chicago. After the school closed down in 1915, Frank Lloyd Wright inherited the building. Related Resources The following related resources are located in the Department of Special Collections: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/select.html Subject Headings • Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 • Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 • Gannett, William C. (William Channing), 1840-1923 • Jones, Edith Lloyd • Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 1843-1918 • Parker, Francis W. (Francis Wayland), 1837-1902 • Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 • Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 • Abraham Lincoln Centre (Chicago, Ill.) 5 • All Souls Church (Chicago, Ill.) • Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) • World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) • Unitarian churches INVENTORY Series I: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Correspondence Box 1 Folder 1 Copies and excerpts of letters 1861-1872 Box 1 Folder 2 A Box 1 Folder 3 Addams, Jane Box 1 Folder 4 Allen, Joseph H. Box 1 Folder 5 Anthony, Susan B. Box 1 Folder 6 Ba Box 1 Folder 7 Be-Bl Box 1 Folder 8 Bo Box 1 Folder 9 Br Box 1 Folder 10 Bu Box 1 Folder 11 Barrows, John H. Box 1 Folder 12 Barrows, Samuel J. Box 1 Folder 13 6 Batchelor, George Box 1 Folder 14 Bickerdyke, Mary Ann Ball Box 1 Folder 15 Bonet-Maury, Gaston Box 1 Folder 16 Ca-Ch Box 1 Folder 17 Cl-Cr Box 1 Folder 18 Chadwick, John W. Box 1 Folder 19 Coffin, William A. Box 1 Folder 20 Collyer, Robert Box 1 Folder 21 Crooker, J. H. Box 1 Folder 22 Crothers, Samuel M. Box 1 Folder 23 D Box 1 Folder 24 Dharmapala, H. Box 1 Folder 25 Duncan, Lewis J. Box 1 Folder 26 E Box 1 Folder 27 Emerson, Edward W. Box 1 Folder 28 Emerson, Edward W. 7 Box 1 Folder 29 Fa-Fi Box 1 Folder 30 Fl-Fu Box 1 Folder 31 Fiske, John Box 2 Folder 1 Ga-Gi Box 2 Folder 2 Go-Gr Box 2 Folder 3 Gannett, William C. Box 2 Folder 4 Gannett, William C. Box 2 Folder 5 Gannett, William C. Box 2 Folder 6 Gannett, William C. Box 2 Folder 7 Gunsaulus, Frank W. Box 2 Folder 8 Ha Box 2 Folder 9 He Box 2 Folder 10 Hi Box 2 Folder 11 Ho Box 2 Folder 12 Hu Box 2 8 Folder 13 Hale, Edward E. Box 2 Folder 14 Harper, William R. Box 2 Folder 15 Heath, Helen S. Box 2 Folder 16 Herford, Brooke Box 2 Folder 17 Higginson, Thomas W.
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