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Howard Brinton

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Howard Haines Brinton (1884–1973) was an author, professor and director whose work influenced the Religious Society of Friends movement for much of the 20th century. His books ranged from Quaker journal anthologies to philosophical and historical dissertations on the faith, establishing him as a prominent commentator on the Society of Friends.

Early life[edit]

Howard Brinton was born on 24 July 1884, in West Chester, Pennsylvania to a Quaker couple, who were from different strands of the Quaker faith: his father Orthodox and his mother Hicksite.[1]

Academic career[edit]

He studied at Haverford College with Rufus Jones and graduated in 1905, obtaining a master's degree in 1906. He taught at Olney Friends School in Barnesville, Ohio, and at Pickering College in New Market, Ontario. In 1909, he obtained a doctorate in Physics from Harvard.[??]

In 1916, Howard Brinton was appointed acting President of Guilford College, North Carolina, at a troubled time for the college. He visited conscientious objectors imprisoned at Camp Jackson, South Carolina, who were not permitted to communicate with outside and whose location was not known to their relatives and friends.[1]

AFSC[edit]

This visit inspired him to join, in 1919, the American Friends Service Committee soon after, which allowed Quakers and other pacifists to serve during wartime in nonviolent means.[1] It also co-ordinated relief to the victims of war.

The chaotic consequences of war, that he witnessed in Upper Silesia influenced his work as a pacifist speaker and writer in the 1920s and 1930s. It was during this period that he met Anna Shipley Cox (19 October 1887 - 28 October 1969), who also worked in Europe for AFSC. They married when he returned to the United States [2] on 25 July 1921.[3]

Academic career (continued)[edit]

In 1925, he obtained a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of California,[1] while Anna taught at Mills College. Then they moved to Earlham College, Indiana, where both taught and their first three children were born. In 1929, they returned to California, where their fourth child was born and both taught at Mills. During this period he became involved in the case of Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings.

In 1931, they spent a year in England at Woodbrooke Quaker College in Birmingham. In that year, Howard gave the Swarthmore Lecture at London Yearly Meeting, with the title Creative Worship.

Pendle Hill[edit]

In 1936, Howard and Anna Cox Brinton became co-directors at the Pendle Hill religious center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.[4]

A pen portrait of Pendle Hill in the Brinton period appeared in Time Magazine 21 June 1948.[5] The article indicates the diversity of the students and the variety of their studies.

Brinton used this opportunity to produce over a dozen books and pamphlets dealing with Quakerism. Ironically, one of his most productive writing periods came during World War II, during which he published the widely used "A Guide to Quaker Practice.".[6] One of his later works, "Friends for 300 Years," was cited by Elizabeth Vining as "one of the great Quaker books of all time."

Japan and later years[edit]

In 1949, Anna Brinton left Pendle Hill to work with AFSC. Howard continued until 1952, when he retired and the couple moved to Japan, in AFSC service. They returned to Pendle Hill in 1954. Howard's Japanese secretary, Yuki Takahashi, a widow, returned with them to help her employer write his memoirs, which have never been published. In May 1972, the nearly blind and aged Brinton, having obtained consent from his adult children, surprised everyone by marrying Takahashi.

Howard Brinton died on 9 April 1973.[7] He is buried with Anna Brinton at the Oakland Friends Cemetery, West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania.[8]

Publications[edit]

incomplete list
  • A Religious Solution to the Social Problem (1934)
  • Quaker Education in Theory and Practice (1940)
  • Guide to Quaker Practice (1943)
  • The Society of Friends (1948)
  • Friends for 300 years (1952)

Pendle Hill pamphlets by Howard Brinton[edit]

  • A Religious Solution To The Social Problem by Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill pamphlet #2
  • The Quaker Doctrine of Inward Peace by Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill pamphlet #44
  • The Nature of Quakerism by Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill pamphlet #47
  • The Society of Friends by Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill pamphlet #48
  • Prophetic Ministry by Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill pamphlet #54
  • Reaching Decisions by Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill pamphlet #65
  • How They Became Friends by Howard Brinton, Pendle Hill pamphlet #144

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Living the Peace Testimony: the legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton by Anthony Manousos. Wallingford, Pennsylvania, Pendle Hill, 2004 (Pendle Hill pamphlets #372) ISBN 0-87574-372-2
  2. ^ for a biography of Anna Brinton see Pendle Hill pamphlets #176 (1971) Anna Brinton: a Study in Quaker Character by Eleanore Price Mather
  3. ^ Date of marriage deduced from Manousos (p. 31): "She returned home to Pendle Hill [in 1946] on 23 July, the twenty-fifth anniversary of her marriage".
  4. ^ Manousos p.19: Howard became Acting Director in 1934
  5. ^ "Religion: Pendle Hill". Time. 21 June 1948. Archived from the original on February 27, 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  6. ^ Jump up to:a b "List of Howard Brinton's publications on Pendle Hill website". Archived from the original on 26 October 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  7. ^ "Brf - Brn - New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors". www.authorandbookinfo.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  8. ^ "Howard Haines Brinton (1884-1973) at Find a Grave". Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  9. ^ For an extensive list of Howard Brinton's publications see Tripod Catalog: Catalogue of the libraries of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore colleges. His papers are at Haverford College.

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Anna Cox Brinton

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Anna Cox Brinton
A white woman's face, in profile, facing viewer's right. Her hair is pinned up.
Anna Cox Brinton, from a 1934 newspaper.
Born
Anna Shipley Cox

October 19, 1887
San Jose, California
DiedOctober 28, 1969 (aged 82)
Wallingford, Pennsylvania
Occupationclassics scholar, Quaker leader
Known forco-director of Pendle Hill Center for Quaker Studies
Spouse(s)Howard Brinton
Children4; daughters Lydia, Catharine, and Joan, and son Edward Brinton

Anna Shipley Cox Brinton (October 19, 1887 – October 28, 1969) was an American classics scholar, college administrator, writer, and Quaker leader, active with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).

She has credited with being one of those who "reinvented Quakerism" for the 20th century.

Early life[edit]

Anna Shipley Cox was born in San Jose, California,[1] the daughter of Charles Ellwood Cox and Lydia S. Bean Cox, and the granddaughter of Quaker leader Joel Bean.[2] Her father was mathematics professor at Stanford University.[3] She attended Westtown School in Philadelphia, and completed both undergraduate work and doctoral studies at Stanford University, in 1909[4] and in 1917,[5] respectively. Her sister was Catharine Cox Miles, a psychologist based at Stanford University.[3]

Career[edit]

Academic work[edit]

Brinton was a professor of archaeology and art history, on the faculty at Mills College.[6] She was convener of the college's School of Fine Arts, and dean of the Mills College faculty. She also taught Latin and Greek and was head of the classics department at Earlham College in Indiana, from 1921 to 1928.[7][8] Her dissertation project, a translation and commentary titled Maphaeus Vegius and his Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid, was published by Stanford University Press in 1930,[9] and reissued in 2002.[10]

Brinton prepared A Pre-Raphaelite Aeneid, which was privately published in 1934 by art collector Estelle Doheny (wife of Edward L. Doheny).[11] She was a delegate to the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Hawaii in 1930.[12][13] In 1931 and 1932, she held a Woodbrooke Fellowship, for advanced studies at Selly Oak College in England.[1] She was a speaker at the Institute of World Affairs meeting in Riverside, California, in 1934.[14]

American Friends Service Committee[edit]

Brinton was active with the AFSC for decades, serving on the organization's board from 1938 to 1965. After World War I, she went to Silesia with the organization's child feeding program. In 1931, she and her husband organized the Pacific Yearly Meeting, a west coast organization of Friends.[5] In 1936, the Brintons were named co-directors of the Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, near Philadelphia.[5] She was the AFSC's Commissioner for Asia from 1948.[15] In 1952, the Brintons went to Japan with the AFSC, to direct Quaker postwar relief work in Tokyo.[16][17]

In the 1960s, she was president of the Friends Historical Association. She edited a text by William Penn (No Cross, No Crown, 1945),[18] an essay collection, Then & Now: Quaker Essays, Historical and Contemporary (1960)[19] and a reference work, Quaker Profiles: Pictorial & Biographical 1750-1850 (1964),[20] and wrote a biography, The Wit and Wisdom of William Bacon Evans (1964), and a history, Toward Undiscovered Ends: Friends and Russia for 300 Years (1951).[21]

Personal life[edit]

Anna Cox married writer Howard Haines Brinton in 1921. They had four children together. Lydia, the eldest, Cathrine, an elementary school teacher, Joan, the youngest, and their son Edward Brinton (1924-2010) became a noted oceanographer. She died from a stroke on October 28, 1969, aged 82 years, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.[1]

Biographies[edit]

  • Eleanor Price Mather, Anna Brinton: a Study in Quaker Character (1971)[22]
  • Anthony Manousos, Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton (2004 pamphlet)[23]
  • Catharine Forbes, compiler, with Catharine Brinton Cary and Joan Brinton Erickson, A Quaker Marriage of Philosophy and Art: Words and Pictures of Howard and Anna Brinton (2012)[24]
  • Anthony Manousos, Howard and Anna Brinton: Re-Inventors of Quakerism in the Twentieth Century (2013)[25][26]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b c "Anna Cox Brinton Dies; Author, Scholar". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 30, 1969. p. 20. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ J. W. B. (June 15, 1922). "Lydia Shipley Cox, an Appreciation". The Friend. 95: 594–595.
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b "Former Richmond Resident is Dead at Philadelphia". The Richmond Item. June 13, 1930. p. 15. Retrieved September 20, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Class of 1909 Has Farewell Day on 'Quad'". San Francisco Call. May 18, 1909. p. 16. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  5. ^ Jump up to:a b c Abbott, Margery Post; Chijioke, Mary Ellen; Dandelion, Pink (2006). The A to Z of the Friends (Quakers). Scarecrow Press. pp. 31–33. ISBN 9780810856110.
  6. ^ Rood, Alice Ryan (October 4, 1932). "Dr. Anna Brinton Will Speak on Orient, Europe". Oakland Tribune. p. 26D. Retrieved September 20,2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  7. ^ "Anna Cox Brinton Talks About Italy to Altrusa Club". Palladium-Item. December 8, 1927. p. 9. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Secure H. H. Brinton, Wife, for Earlham Faculty Next Year". Palladium-Item. February 22, 1922. p. 4. Retrieved September 20,2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Brinton, Anna Cox (1930). Maphaeus Vegius and his thirteenth book of the Aeneid,chapter on Virgil in the Renaissance. Stanford University Press. hdl:2027/mdp.39015005391282.
  10. ^ Buckley, Emma (February 2003). "Review of: Maphaeus Vegius and his Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  11. ^ Brinton, Anna Cox; Doheny, Estelle; Ritchie, Ward; Rogers, Bruce; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (1934). A pre-Raphaelite Aeneid of Virgil in the collection of Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny of Los Angeles: being an essay in honor of the William Morris centenary, 1934. Los Angeles, Calif.: Printed for Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny by Ward Ritchie. OCLC 4233993.
  12. ^ "Mrs. Cox, Dr. Brinton Entertained on Kauai". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. August 19, 1930. p. 9. Retrieved September 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Delegates to Conference in Hawaii". The San Francisco Examiner. July 27, 1930. p. 63. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Women Leaders to Take Part in World Institute". The Los Angeles Times. December 5, 1934. p. 6. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Anna Cox Brinton". Women In Peace. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  16. ^ Chun, Ella (February 7, 1955). "Friends Organization in Important Role in Japan". The Honolulu Advertiser. p. 15. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Leeds, Claire (February 15, 1955). "Distinguished Quaker Leader Back from Japan Assignment". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 16. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "William Penn's No Cross, No Crown". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. 1945. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  19. ^ Brinton, Anna Cox (1960). "Then & Now: Quaker Essays, Historical and Contemporary". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  20. ^ Brinton, Anna Cox (1964). Quaker profiles, pictorial and biographical, 1750-1850 / Anna Cox Brinton. Wallingford, Pa.: Pendle Hill Publications. OCLC 1437981.
  21. ^ Brinton, Anna Cox (1951). "Toward Undiscovered Ends: Friends and Russia for 300 Years". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  22. ^ Mather, Eleanor Price (1971). "Anna Brinton: a Study in Quaker Character". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  23. ^ Manousos, Anthony. "Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  24. ^ "A Quaker Marriage of Philosophy and Art: Words and Pictures of Howard and Anna Brinton". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  25. ^ Manousos, Anthony. (2013). Howard and Anna Brinton : re-inventors of Quakerism in the twentieth century : an interpretive biography. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 9781937768102. OCLC 847246085.
  26. ^ Stanfield, Pablo (2013-11-01). "Howard and Anna Brinton - Review". Western Friend. Retrieved 2019-09-20.

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