The News Publishing Company Collection consists of issues of The News from 1933 to 1934, as well as a subscription card, letter regarding fundraising from the Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C.,
and a bulletin to the Lincoln Monthly Meeting of Friends discussing spiritual development. The news articles include discussion
of plays and other events at Lincoln High School, sermons at the Friends Meetings, recipes, and handmade drawings of local
activities. These issues were kept by subscribers Franklin P. (1857-1946) and Elizabeth H. (n.d.-1948) Wilson, who had spent
much of their early lives in Loudoun County. A letter to Mrs. Wilson is also included, explaining that the student paper
will not be continued during summer vacation.
Benjamin Harrison Branch, Jr. (1919-1993) was an active member of the Goose Creek United Meeting. In 1933, Branch became
editor of a student newspaper, the News Publishing Company, at Lincoln High School in association with Howard W. Babb (1899-n.d.).
Branch was later named historian of the Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C. He donated collections detailing personal genealogy
and his work with the Conference of Friends to both the Library of Congress and the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore
College.
The News Publishing Company Collection consists of issues of The News from 1933 to 1934, as well as a subscription card, letter regarding fundraising from the Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C.,
and a bulletin to the Lincoln Monthly Meeting of Friends discussing spiritual development. The news articles include discussion
of plays and other events at Lincoln High School, sermons at the Friends Meetings, recipes, and handmade drawings of local
activities. These issues were kept by subscribers Franklin P. (1857-1946) and Elizabeth H. (n.d.-1948) Wilson, who had spent
much of their early lives in Loudoun County. A letter to Mrs. Wilson is also included, explaining that the student paper
will not be continued during summer vacation.
Ancestry Library, Census and Voter Lists, www.ancestrylibrary.com (Accessed 22 June 2011)
Ancestry Library, Social Security Death Index, www.ancestrylibrary.com (Accessed 22 June 2011)
Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/ead/5176bebr.xml (Accessed 22 June
2011)
Loudoun Cemetery Database, http://www.leesburgva.gov/index.aspx?page=940 (Accessed 29 June 2011) Loudoun Times Mirror , Obituary, 24 October 1946.
Ancestry Library, Census and Voter Lists, www.ancestrylibrary.com (Accessed 22 June 2011)
Ancestry Library, Social Security Death Index, www.ancestrylibrary.com (Accessed 22 June 2011)
Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/ead/5176bebr.xml (Accessed 22 June
2011)
Loudoun Cemetery Database, http://www.leesburgva.gov/index.aspx?page=940 (Accessed 29 June 2011) Loudoun Times Mirror , Obituary, 24 October 1946.