T. Canby Jones

T. Canby Jones (September 21, 1921 in Karuizawa, Japan – February 13, 2014 in Pennsylvania) was a Quaker peace activist, a professor emeritus of Wilmington College in Ohio, and a student of Thomas R. Kelly.

Biography

Thomas Canby Jones was a son of Esther Alsop Balderston Jones (1894(?)–1967) and Thomas E. Jones (1888–1973), who were serving as missionaries for the Friends Mission Board at the time of his birth. His family returned to the US when he was three years old, and his father became president of Fisk University, 1926–1946, and of Earlham College, 1946–1958.

He graduated from Westtown Friends' Boarding School (1938), Haverford College (1942). He was a founding member of the Friends Association for Higher Education (FAHE), and a charter member of Campus Friends Meeting in Wilmington, Ohio. He also taught at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana for a short time.

Jones died in Paoli Memorial Hospital, suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Family

Jones married Helen Eunice Meeks on 19 August 1945; they had one son.

Publications

His book publications include;

‘Triumph through Obedience’ (1964) ‘The Lamb’s Peacemakers’ (1987) ‘Thomas R. Kelly As I Remember Him’ (Pendle Hill, 1989) ‘A Distinctively Quaker View of Teaching and Learning’ (2004)

He also co-wrote a book on David Updegraff.

His personal papers are held by the S. Arthur Watson Library Special Collections, Wilmington College (Ohio). His professional papers are held at the Brynmawr TriCollege Library.