Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Quaker History - period ended 9.1.2006

Quaker History/Women/Paul, Alice//Paulsdale offers wine, dining event/Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/30-Aug-06//... org. The Alice Paul Institute was created in 1985 to enhance public awareness of the life and work of Quaker suffragist Alice Paul. ...

Quaker History/Women/Mott, Lucretia/Suffrage: 86 years of voting/Scranton Times-Tribune/Scranton/PA/USA/27-Aug-06//... Other leaders included Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, a Quaker minister who called for the famed Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, where participants ...

Quaker History/Women/Anthony, Susan B./Saving suffrage leader's home/Newsday/Long Island/NY/USA/24-Aug-06//... In the front hall is a sign that the Anthony family, part of the anti-slavery Quaker community, may have hid escapees from the South. ...

Quaker History/Women/Anthony, Susan B./Susan B. Anthony and the struggle for women’s equality/Dominican Today/Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic/Carirbbean/30-Aug-06//Collective memory pinpoints the history of women’s suffrage to Quaker teacher Susan B. Anthony who in 1837 was the first to stand up for equal pay for women ...

Quaker History/Women/Anthony, Susan B./Suffragist's home may be preserved/Baltimore Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/27-Aug-06//... In the front hall is a sign that the Anthony family, part of the anti-slavery Quaker community, may have hidden escapees from the South. ...

Quaker History/Women///Final M'Clintock House event of the season planned/Finger Lakes Times/Waterloo/NY/USA/30-Aug-06//... "The public is invited to visit the home where the close-knit Quaker family of seven harbored fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad, entertained famous ...

Quaker History/Usefulness/Woodworking/Home tour features history/Anderson Herald Bulletin/Anderson/IN/USA/24-Aug-06//... “The house and barn were built in 1886 by Quaker craftsmen.”. Crow said that a notable feature of the barn is a Fairbanks Scale. ...

Quaker History/Tolerance///Council votes for statute/Chester Daily Local Online/West Chester/PA/USA/17-Aug-06//... welcoming community. "West Chester has that Quaker history," she said. "We’re a tolerant community. Everyone is welcome here.". The ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Them-vs.-Us/Woolman, John/Another Dividing Fray Rears its Head/Kerrville Daily Times/Kernville/TX/USA/8-Aug-06//… Kerrville needs a John Woolman - urgently. We recall him as the Quaker, who in contrast to radical abolitionists, traveled quietly through the South, asking fellow members of the Society of Friends to reflect ....

Quaker History/Slavery/Brown, Moses/Slavery divided Brown brothers, then a nation/Cleveland Plain Dealer/Cleveland/OH/USA/30-Aug-06//... While mild-mannered Moses became a Quaker, stubborn, outspoken John lived up to the nickname -- "Old Thunder" -- that his children gave him. ...

Quaker History/Religious Faith/Grellet, Stephen/A 'good thing' endures/Gulf Breeze News/Ft. Lauderdale/FL/USA/23-Aug-06//... Stephen Grellet, a Frenchborn Quaker Minister wrote, "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.." ...

Quaker History/Politics and Economics/Magie, Elizabeth/Public face/Times & Star/London/England/UK/24-Aug-06//... The workshop - How to become a Fairtrade School - is being organised by Cumbria Fairtrade Network and will be held in Penrith’s Quaker Meeting House. ...

Quaker History/Politics and Economics/Madsion, Dolley/President Madison's extreme home makeover/Cincinnati Post/Cincinnati/OH/USA/25-Aug-06//... After Madison married Dolley Payne Todd, a Quaker widow who quickly transformed herself into an elegant Virginia matron, he added a 30-foot extension to one ...

Quaker History/Politics and Economics//Did this Hamilton make name for himself?/Trenton Times/Trenton/NJ/USA/15-Aug-06//... All of this is background for understanding the politics that went on in the 1600s, with heavy emphasis on Quaker influence over West Jersey. ...

Quaker History/Natural Science/Religious Faith/Trueblood, Elton/THE PRAIRIE GARDENER: Dru Sjodin Memorial Garden blooms bright/Grand Forks Herald/Grand Forks/ND/USA/24-Aug-06//... The Sjodin memorial garden is about three blocks north of the depot. Besides plantings, it consists of two stone benches, engraved stones, a delicate wrought-iron piece and terraces. A maple sapling in the center will provide shade in future years. Tucked among the plants are several small elephants. One decorative stone features this verse by Quaker theologian Ellton Trueblood, Dru's favorite:

"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants a shade tree under which he knows full well he will never sit."

Another stone bears these words, "Friends are angels that stay with you for life.": ...

Quaker History/Natural Science/Medicine/Hoxey, John/Abraham Cherrix and the Hoxsey Formula/Chronogram/New Paltz/NY/USA/1-Sep-06//...in 1840, that Harry Hoxsey's great-grandfather, John Hoxsey, a Quaker farmer in Illinois, discovered that a prized stallion of his had a cancerous tumor on its leg. Rather than put the horse down, Hoxsey yielded to nature's ways, letting the animal graze until its time was over.

But after several weeks the horse's leg looked better; several months later the tumor appeared "to dry up," separate from the leg, and fall off. The horse completely recovered. Hoxsey had observed the horse munching on different plants than usual while in the pasture; he collected those and combined them with herbs known for healing properties at the time to create a tonic. He used the mixture to treat other farm animals and shared it with neighbors. The precise formula was kept a family secret and willed from one Hoxsey generation to the next, with two caveats: The exact formula must never be revealed (simple plants couldn't be patented), and it must be given free to those who couldn't afford to buy it.

Two generations later, in 1924, great-grandson Harry Hoxsey founded the first clinic to treat cancer patients with the formula. Simplified versions of his story note that Harry partnered with physicians, asked clients to bring their medical records, eventually opened clinics in 17 states, and had thousands of patients credit him with "curing" their cancers. But there is much more to this story. Dr. Morris Fishbein, chief of the American Medical Association at the time, courted Hoxsey for the rights to his formula. But, says Hoxsey in his autobiography You Don't Have to Die, the AMA wanted out of the family pledge to give the treatment free of charge to those who couldn't afford it. On that point, Hoxsey refused to sell. ...

Quaker History/Museum / Library//Smithsonian exhibit nears/Maryville Daily Times/Maryville/TN/USA/26-Aug-06//... Local aspects of Blount County's part of the exhibit, such as the Friends Church and Cemetery in Friendsville, and fences in Cades Cove and Townsend, will be ...

Quaker History/Madison, Dolley//Montpelier has become more as Madison knew it/commercialappeal.com/Chattanooga/TN/USA/20-Aug-06//After Madison married Dolley Payne Todd, a Quaker widow who quickly transformed herself into an elegant Virginia matron, he added a 30-foot extension to one side, making Montpelier essentially a duplex, with James and Dolley living in one part and James' parents in the other.

Quaker History/Faringdon Friends Meeting/Open house to history/This is Wiltshire.co.uk/Faringdon/England/UK/30-Aug-06//... In nearby Faringdon, the Faringdon Quaker Meeting House on Lechlade Road will be open giving visitors the chance to look inside the 1672-vintage structure ...

Quaker History/Equality/Crandall, Prudence/BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF PRUDENCE CRANDALL/Norwich Bulletin/Norwich/CT/USA/1-Sep-06//... Sept. 3
BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF PRUDENCE CRANDALL. Born to a Quaker family on this date in 1803 in Rhode Island, this American schoolteacher sparked controversy in the 1830s with her efforts to educate black girls. When her private academy for girls was boycotted because she admitted a black girl, she started a school in Canterbury for “young ladies and misses of colour.” Died Jan. 28, 1890, in Elks Falls, Kan. ...

Quaker History/Equality/Crandall, Prudence/BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF PRUDENCE CRANDALL/Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/1-Sep-06//... Sept. 3
BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF PRUDENCE CRANDALL. Born to a Quaker family on this date in 1803 in Rhode Island, this American schoolteacher sparked controversy in the 1830s with her efforts to educate black girls. When her private academy for girls was boycotted because she admitted a black girl, she started a school in Canterbury for “young ladies and misses of colour.” Died Jan. 28, 1890, in Elks Falls, Kan. ...

Quaker History/Children of Peace/Lount, Samuel/Unlikely rebels paid the highest price when they joined revolt in .../Toronto Star/Toronto/Ontario/Canada/25-Aug-06//... One of the condemned men, Samuel Lount of Holland Landing, was from a pacifist Quaker sect called the Children of Peace; the other, Peter Matthews of Newmarket ...

Quaker History/Business/Politics and Economics/Vickery, William/Stockholm's Syndrome/Wall Street Journal/New York/NY/USA/31-Aug-06//…The project is essentially a giant behavior-control experiment designed
to distribute traffic more efficiently throughout the day and to spur more people to take public transportation. The
approach, known as "congestion pricing," first gained attention in the 1950s through work by Nobel-prize winning
economist William Vickery. He theorized that billing drivers for driving at peak hours would give them an incentive
to modify their routines. Because even small declines in the volume of cars on the road can have a huge impact on
the flow of traffic, some economists believe pricing could eliminate some of the worst snarls. ...

Quaker History/Business/Medicine/Hopkins, Johns/Johns Hopkins Christ statue is source of consolation/Catholic Online/Los Angeles/CA/USA/25-Aug-06//... The statue was a long-awaited acknowledgement of God that had been conspicuously lacking when the university was dedicated in 1876. Johns Hopkins, a Quaker business¬man who endowed the institution named after him, intended the hos¬pital- university to be a non-sectarian center of scientific advancement.

But after many across the country were outraged that there was no ref¬erence to the Almighty at the uni¬versity’s dedication, Daniel Coit Gil¬man, president of the university and hospital, asked for someone to donate a replica of the Thorvaldsen statue. William Wallace Spence, a Baltimore businessman, funded the artwork. .

Quaker History/Business/Cadbury, John/Chew on this/CNNMoney.com/New York/NY/USA/23-Aug-06//... Werewolves of London.". Cadbury's primary focus since its founding by Quaker John Cadbury in 1824 had always been chocolate. As recently ...

Quaker History/Brown University/Brown, Nicholas/Proctor: The Brown family cemetery/Pembroke Mariner/Pembroke/MA/USA/16-Aug-06//... They were members of the Quaker faith and indirectly related to Nicholas Brown, after whom Brown University in Providence, RI was named. ...

Quaker History/Arts/Painting/West, Benjamin/American Art In Paris/New York Sun/New York/NY/USA/17-Aug-06//... The fascination was mutual from early on. Benjamin West, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, had a decisive influence on French artists in the late 18th century. "The Death of General Wolfe" (1770) and "Death on the Pale Horse" (1796) were inspiring breaks with the tradition of history painting, treating current events with the heroic grandeur usually reserved for myths and ancient themes. The former painting became a popular engraving, and West, a favorite of King George III, perhaps the most famous American artist of the era.. ...

Quaker History/Architecture///Greenwood survives in spirit/DesMoinesRegister.com/Des Moines/IA/USA/23-Aug-06//... Coulson said he appreciates the history of Greenwood, which during the 1800s and early 1900s was occupied almost entirely by members of the Quaker faith. The town's Quaker church was torn down long ago because of vandalism, Coulson said, but the town's cemetery still exists on Northeast 78th Avenue.. ...

Quaker History/Architecture///In the shadow of Ahab: Nantucket's cobblestone streets, Old-World .../Pittsburgh Post Gazette/Pittsburgh/PA/USA/19-Aug-06//... The Mitchell House has been restored to replicate a typical mid-19th-century Quaker home. Clear fall days on Nantucket will beckon visitors outside. ...

Quaker History/Architecture///Quaker-built house holds memories/Anderson Herald Bulletin/Anderson/IN/USA/31-Aug-06//... Homes. The house’s story begins with Noah Haines. Born in 1843 in Ohio to a Quaker family, he moved to Madison County at age 11. He ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Coffin, Levi//Coffin's Underground Railroad home a top-25 historic site One-Tank .../nwitimes.com/Gary/IN/USA/22-Aug-06//... Raised in a Quaker family in New Garden, NC, Levi Coffin was taught the tenets of abolitionism early on and at 15, while at a corn husking, noticed a group of ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Coffin, Levi//Coffin's Underground Railroad home a top-25 historic site/Munster Times/Munster/IN/USA/22-Aug-06//... Raised in a Quaker family in New Garden, NC, Levi Coffin was taught the tenets of abolitionism early on and at 15, while at a corn husking, noticed a group of ...

Quaker History/"Give in Love and Trust"/Darnell, Doris/Bagged by the wags/Sydney Morning Herald/Sydney/Australia/Oceania/16-Aug-06//... The Quaker philosophy is to "give in love and trust", says Charlotte Smith, whose American Quaker godmother, Doris Darnell, certainly gave generously when she ...

Quaker History///Exploring London’s Jewish roots/European Jewish Press/Bruxelles/Belgium/E.U./30-Aug-06//... Before the Second World War, there were more than 150 synagogues in London’s East End. Now, only four remain and one of these is the Bevis Marks Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in Britain, which was built in 1701 by a Quaker who did not want to accept any payment for building a place of worship. ...


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