Horace M. Lippincott, Jr. Collection, 1943-1999 | Archives of the American Field Service and AFS Intercultural Programs

Horace Mather Lippincott, Jr. (typically referred to as H. Mather Lippincott, Jr.) was born on November 6, 1921, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, to Horace Mather Lippincott and Sarah Jenkins. Lippincott attended the Westtown Friends School in Westtown, Pennsylvania, and went on to Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. in history (Class of 1943).

Lippincott volunteered to become an American Field Service (AFS) ambulance driver in October 1943. He departed from New York in January 1944 with AFS unit CM 58 and posted to the 567 Company (Coy) upon arrival in Naples, Italy, in March 1944. Lippincott was promoted to section leader in December 1944. He went on leave in Italy in April 1945 and was planning to return to an AFS unit with the French Army in May when V-E Day occurred on May 8, 1945. He was reassigned to lead a unit to Burma in June 1945, but subsequently resigned from the position and was repatriated to the United States in July 1945.

Following the war, Lippincott attended the School of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1949. He was an active Quaker and served with the Friends General Conference Central Committee and American Friends Service Committee (1950-1953.) He began his career as an architect in the office of Oscar Stonorov and became a co-founder of Cope & Lippincott Architects in 1956. He led several projects to build or renovate Quaker meeting houses and schools, and the architecture firm won several historic preservation and design awards. He served as an officer of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (1954-1969) and as president in 1969. He was also a lecturer on architecture at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

Horace Mather Lippincott, Jr. passed away on September 20, 2010, at age 88, in Haverford, Pennsylvania.