Howard Haines Brinton and Anna Shipley Cox Brinton - Haverford ...

Howard & Anna Brinton Papers
Coll. no. 1189
p. 2
N.B. Papers of additional Brinton family members and Bean, Cox and Shipley
families have been received as an addition to this acquisition, but have not yet been
described in detail, though they have at least folder-level identification.
Biographical Note:
Howard Haines Brinton was born a birthright Friend in West Chester PA on July
24, 1884, son of Edward and Ruthanna Brown Brinton. He married Anna Shipley Cox in
1921 with whom he had 4 children, and Yukiko Takahashi in 1972. He received a B.A.
from Haverford College in 1904 and a M.A. in 1905 also from Haverford. He also
received a M.A. in 1909 from Harvard and Ph.D. from the University of California in
1924.
Brinton taught at Friends Boarding School in Barnesville, Ohio (1906-1908), then
Pickering College (1909-1915). He was a professor of mathematics at Guilford College
(1915-1919) where he also served as acting president and dean. HHB was faculty advisor
to the Guilfordian (student newspaper at Guilford College) at least for the period 1917-
1918.
He was secretary and publicity director of the American Friends Service
Committee (1919-1920), director of the child feeding program in the Plebiscite area of
Upper Silesia (1920-1921). In 1927, HHB was recorded a minister in the Society of
Friends. He returned to teach physics at Earlham College (1922-1928), religion at Mills
College (1928-1936). Brinton served as acting director and lecturer at Pendle Hill
Graduate School of Religion & Social Study (1934-1935) and director (1936-1952). He
continued to be active as the Swarthmore lecturer in London (1931), resident fellow and
lecturer at Selly Oak in England (1931), lecturer at Haverford College (1932, 1945 &
1949), William Penn lecturer in Philadelphia (1932 & 1938), lecturer at Bryn Mawr
College, (1934 & 1936), Dudleian lecturer at Harvard (1949). He was representative of
the American Friends Service Committee in Japan (1952-1954).HHB was author of
several books, including Friends for 300 Years (1952), The Mystic Will (1930), Creative
Worship (1931), Divine Human Society (1938), editor & contributor to Children of Light
(1938), Quaker Education (1940), editor and contributor to Byways in Quaker History
(1944, Creative Worship and other Essays (1963). He was also author of pamphlets
published by Pendle Hill. Howard Brinton died in 1973.
Anna Shipley Cox Brinton, scholar, teacher, activist and organizer was born a
birthright Friend in 1887, the daughter of Lydia Bean Cox and Charles Cox and
granddaughter of Joel and Hannah Bean of College Park, CA. Anna attended Westtown
School and graduated from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa, and Ph.D. in 1917. She
also studied at the American School of
Archaeology and Classical Studies in Rome. In 1918, she became a member of
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Western District. In ca. 1920, she was appointed
to the child feeding program of the AFSC in Upper Silesia (northern Poland). In 1928,