T. Canby Jones
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Religious Society of Friends
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activist, a professor emeritus of Wilmington College in Ohio, and was a student of Thomas R. Kelly
Thomas R. Kelly
Thomas Raymond Kelly was an American Quaker educator. He taught and wrote on the subject of mysticism. His books are widely read, especially by people interested in spirituality....
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T. Canby Jones (born 1921 in Karuizawa, Japan to Friends missionary parents) is a son of Esther Alsop Balderston Jones (1894(?)-1967) and Thomas E. Jones
Thomas E. Jones
Thomas Elsa Jones was the fifth president of Fisk University, serving from 1926 to 1946. He was also president of Earlham College. A Quaker, Jones served as a missionary with his wife in Japan....
(1888-1973), who was president of Fisk University
Fisk University
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, 1926-1946, and of Earlham College
Earlham College
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, 1946-1958. He graduated from Westtown Friends' Boarding School (1938), Haverford College
Haverford College
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(1942), and Yale University
Yale University
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(1955), where he earned divinity and Ph.D. degrees.
During World War Two he was a conscientious objector serving primarily in a Civilian Public Service camp in Trenton, North Dakota. He married Helen Eunice Meeks while in CPS on August 19, 1945. Immediately after the war he and his wife went to Finnmark province in north Norway where they did postwar reconstruction work under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee.
He served as a Professor of Religion & Philosophy at Wilmington College from 1955 until his retirement in 1987. His book publications include George Fox's Attitude Toward War; A Documentary Study (Friends United Press, 1984), "The Power of the Lord Is Over All": The Pastoral Letters of George Fox (Friends United Press, 1989), and Thomas R. Kelly As I Remember Him (Pendle Hill, 1989).
He is a founding member of the Friends Association for Higher Education (FAHE), and a charter member of Campus Friends Meeting in Wilmington, Ohio. He is the subject of the book Practiced In The Presence: Essays In Honor of T. Canby Jones (Friends United Press, 1994). [Brief biography provided by Watson Library Archives, Wilmington College (OH)]