Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Zebedee HAINES
Zebedee Haines was born in 1843 in Medford, New Jersey, the son of Zebedee and Elizabeth Hendrikson Haines, and became a student at Westtown Boarding School in Pennsylvania in the fall of 1860. By 1867 he was a teaching at Westtown. In 1870 he married Anna P. Harvey, who also had taught at Westtown, 1867-1868. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) appointed Zebedee to its Westtown School Committee in 1879, and Anna Haines was appointed in 1885. Both served on the Committee until 1891 when they became Superintendent and Matron of the School, serving until 1896. Zebedee was also academic head of the School from 1894-1896. He and Anna were again appointed to the School Committee in 1897 and 1900, respectively, and served until retirement in 1918. Each had almost a lifetime involvement with the school, as did some of their children, all of whom graduated from Westtown between 1892 and 1904.
Their son, Alfred S. Haines, who graduated in 1894 and went on to Haverford College, served as assistant teacher, as a teacher of botany, English, and rhetoric, and originated the School's eight acre “pine forest”. The Haines family also ran a dairy farm at West Grove, Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
Zebedee was equally active in the work of the Society of Friends, in particular, the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting which in 1797 had established reservations among the Seneca Indians at Allegheny and the Oneidas at Cattaraugus in western New York State. In 1903 Zebedee traveled to these reservations with Joseph S. Elkinton (1830-1905), and later the same year both visited Indians in Nova Scotia and Ontario. Zebedee's letters of Nov. 1903 describe conditions of the Indians at these places. Elkinton's father, Joseph Elkinton (1794-1868), had been a founder in 1822 of the school for Seneca Indian boys at Tunesassa, and Joseph S. was himself born there. By 1852 girls had been admitted as boarders, and education at Tunesassa is described in some of the 36 letters written in 1908-1909 by (Mary) Elizabeth Haines, daughter of Zebedee and Anna Haines, who taught there. Zebedee continued his involvement with Tunesassa as late as 1910, and also traveled widely, visiting other Yearly Meetings.
Anna P. Harvey was the daughter of Thomas M. Harvey and his first wife, Deborah Phillips, who died when Anna was only four years old. Thomas married second to Cassandra Brinton of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting in 1857, and Anna regarded Cassandra as her mother. Thomas M. Harvey ran a model farm for experimental agriculture in West Grove, Pennsylvania,
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