Quaker History - period ended 11.1.2006

Quaker History/Philadelphia/Tradition/Immigration/Philadelphia cheesesteak country is home to tacos, too/USA Today/New York/NY/USA/16-Oct-06/AP/PHILADELPHIA — Whether it's a result of the city's Quaker roots or its working-class character, Philadelphia has always cooked up a cuisine that's more meat ...

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Quaker History/Governance/Philadelphia/YO! PHILLY GETS DISSED, BIG-TIME/Philadelphia Daily News/Philadelphia/PA/USA/25-Oct-06/WSJ/…... In his "Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia" (1979), E. Digby Baltzell argued that Boston Brahmins, with their belief in authority and leadership, embraced ... But what makes cities successful - or even just lovable - can seldom be quantified. Even Baltzell, who admired the mind and achievements of Puritan Boston, said that his heart and loyalties were rooted in Quaker Philadelphia, which he criticized so harshly. ….

Quaker History/Governance/Philadelphia/A Tale of Several Cities/Wall Street Journal/New York/NY/USA/20-Oct-06/WSJ/…... In his "Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia" (1979), E. Digby Baltzell argued that Boston Brahmins, with their belief in authority and leadership, embraced ... But what makes cities successful - or even just lovable - can seldom be quantified. Even Baltzell, who admired the mind and achievements of Puritan Boston, said that his heart and loyalties were rooted in Quaker Philadelphia, which he criticized so harshly. ….

Quaker History/War/U.S. Civil War/Hatcher, Clinton/Remembering A Hometown Soldier/Leesburg Today/Leesburg/VA/USA/30-Oct-06//...T. Clinton L. Hatcher, a Quaker farmer who grew up in the area between Purcellville and Hamilton, was killed in the closing moments of the Battle of Balls Bluff on Oct. 21, 1861. A 6-foot, 7-inch tall soldier who carried the banner for the 8th Virginia Infantry, he was buried following the engagement, but without the military service provided for veterans.

Ken Fleming, the commander of Clinton Hatcher Camp 21 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, changed that Saturday by organizing a service that paid tribute to Hatcher's sacrifice and celebrated the dedication of Southern soldiers.
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Quaker History/War/American Revolution/Revolutionary spirit/Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/30-Oct-06//... England. Paine became good friends with Joseph Kirkbride, from a disavowed Quaker family, who lived in Falls Township, Bucks County. ...

Quaker History/Religious Faith/Bible/Borrow, George/George Borrow, el "guiri" de viaje romántico por la España del .../El Digital de Castilla la Mancha/Toledo/Spain/E.U./28-Oct-06//... del Nuevo Testamento, mediante su traducción al español y sin las preceptivas notas católicas) que apareció en España fue un cuáquero llamado Jorge Borrow …
“The first emissary of such societies (Biblical dedicated to the promotion of the New Testament, by means of its translation to the Spanish and without mandatory catholic notes) who appeared in Spain was a called Quaker Jorge Borrow, eccentric and of few letters, so simple personage crédulo and innocent as those that leave with the scale to receive the Holy Kings. Borrow has written its trip by Spain, crazy and graciosísimo book, of which we could say like of Brace the Target, that is treasure of recreation and mine of pastimes; book in sum able to produce inextinguishable laughter in the hipocondríaco leyente.”…...

Quaker History/Politics and Economics/Pennsylvania/Don’t clutter the Constitution/Bluefield Daily Telegraph/Bluefield/WV/USA/31-Oct-06//... of states whose cultural heritages rang from Hispanic (New Mexico) to Asain (Hawaii) and whose religious perspectives range from Quaker (Pennsylvania) to ...

Quaker History/Philadelphia//South Philly finds room for Mexican food, too/Myrtle Beach Sun News/Myrtle Beach/SC/USA/1-Nov-06/AP/... PHILADELPHIA - Whether it's a result of the city's Quaker roots or its working-class character, Philadelphia has always cooked up a cuisine that's more meat ...

Quaker History/Philadelphia//BALTZELL AGAIN!?/Centre Daily Times/State College/PA/USA/24-Oct-06//... S. Sigh - from E. Digby Baltzell's stubbornly undead dissertation on Puritan Boston (a city she raves about) and Quaker Philadelphia. ...

Quaker History/Philadelphia//Are You Sure You Were Really in Philadelphia When You Wrote That?/Wall Street Journal/New York/NY/USA/31-Oct-06//... Tale of Several Cities," Julia Vitullo-Martin is so anxious to recycle Digby Baltzell's 25-year-old thesis about "Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia" that ...

Quaker History/Penn, William/Yardley, William/Voices from the grave: Lantern-led cemetery tour digs up stories .../Yardley News/Yardley/PA/USA/26-Oct-06//... Blake said historians have not determined where William Yardley's remains are. She said while it is known that Yardley's family died of smallpox, it is not known whether he perished from the acutely, highly infectious disease.
Yardley, a prominent Quaker, corresponded with William Penn, who attended the Fallsington Friends Meeting. Penn only lived in the New World for four years. Penn's home, Pennsbury Manor, located on the banks of the Delaware River, is now restored, and open to the public.
Blake emphasizes that this is not a 'ghost' tour, but a timely opportunity to share some of the remarkable history of Slate Hill Cemetery. Reservations for the $5-tour are required. Call 215-493-1339 for information.. ...

Quaker History/Nayler, James/Arts/Performance Art/Playing God/Guardian Unlimited/London/England/UK/24-Oct-06//... In the most dramatic and painful way the Quaker movement therefore expelled its Ranter dimension - its appetite for subversive spectacle - and focused on ...

Quaker History/Native Americans/Feelings//The life of a Native American Christian walking in two worlds of .../Native Times/Oklahoma City/OK/USA/18-Oct-06//... My mother, who was French-Cherokee was adopted as a baby by Quakers. She told me when she was a young child she would ride down from Riverton, Kansas to Devil’s Promenade (Indian Territory in Northeast Oklahoma) in a horse drawn buggy driven by her adoptive grandfather who was a Quaker preacher. She said she would sit in the buggy and listen to him preach to the Indians. The Quakers who adopted her were kind, loving people and lived the peaceful prayer life the Quakers are noted for. In my childhood they had great influence on my life in the fact that they practiced “waiting” on the Spirit to move in their meetings rather than going by a determined agenda. “Feeling” what the Spirit’s direction was held as much, if not more, important than their programmed concepts.
My mother always upheld Indian way beliefs to me but she never in her life talked to me about the fact that she was of different lineage than her adoptive parents. . ...

Quaker History/Madison, Dolley//Montpelier loses its duPont trappings/Miami Herald/Miami/FL/USA/29-Oct-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/Church-State/Marriage//Books document South Carolina marriages/Dallas Morning News/Dallas/TX/USA/29-Oct-06//... If ancestors were members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), one should be aware that they did not believe the state had control over the religious matter of marriage.

Quakers, therefore, avoided civil marriage records, and one must rely on church records.

The colonial governments of Pennsylvania, New York and South Carolina exempted civil government from creating and storing marriage records. They relied on churches and synagogues to do that work. So courthouses in these places won't have marriage records. ...

Quaker History/Christianity/Penn, William/Jim Collins: Sunday Hunting In Pa. A Readers Survey – Part II/Towanda Daily Review/Towanda/PA/USA/22-Oct-06//... The opponents of expanded Sunday hunting point to many other considerations. One is that Sunday is the Sabbath Day for Christians and that the day should be a day of rest. Since Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, a devout Quaker, we have traditionally followed mostly Christian principles in dealing with both commerce and recreational opportunities on Sunday. ...

Quaker History/Cadbury, John/Fry, Joseph Storrs/Rowntree, Joseph/Let your taste buds pay homage to chocolate/ic Wales/Cardiff/Wales/UK/25-Oct-06//... smooth slabs we know today. In 1824 Quaker John Cadbury opened his first shop in Birmingham. Various inventions later, the grandson ...

Quaker History/Business/Wharton, Joseph/NJ asks voters to give historic sites a future/Press of Atlantic City/Atlantic City/NJ/USA/27-Oct-06//... During the 1770s, the ironworks changed hands several times and became an important supplier of munitions for the Continental Army.

In 1784, businessman William Richards bought the village and began to add on to the house in order to accommodate his 20 children. His son Jesse and grandson Thomas continued to operate the foundry and add on to the mansion, now in the antebellum style. After Thomas lost the foundry to bankruptcy, self-made millionaire and prominent Philadelphia Quaker (Joseph) Wharton purchased it in 1876.. ...

Quaker History/Business/Whaling//Whale of a rebirth/Boston Globe/Boston/MA/USA/17-Oct-06//... Herman Melville memorialized its whalers in ``Moby-Dick," and Ahab , Starbuck , and Queequeg still cast long shadows on those Quaker streets of uneven granite ...

Quaker History/Business/Whaling/Integrity/Starbucks and the White Whale/Huffington Post/New York/NY/USA/31-Oct-06//... The name tells us something. Starbucks was the coffee-drinking first mate of the Pequod in "Moby Dick," a Quaker known for his integrity and unromantic, mercantile instincts. Significantly, he was the one sailor aboard the Pequod who argued against fighting the white whale.

"How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab? it will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market."

Ahab explains: "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. If man will strike, strike through the mask!"

But Starbuck will have none of this metaphorical nonsense: "To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.". ...

Quaker History/Business/Banking/Shipley, Joseph/Historical marker to be placed at Rockwood Park/The News Journal/Wilmington/DE/USA/20-Oct-06//... Wilmington. Joseph Shipley, a Quaker merchant banker, built the Rockwood mansion between 1851 and 1854 in the Gothic revival style. ...

Quaker History/Architecture/Wilkinson, Ichabod/New Hope seeks grant for historic building/Lambertville Beacon/Lambertville/NJ/USA/18-Oct-06//... afternoon. The two and a half story stone house, built around 1740, was owned by Ichabod Wilkinson, a Quaker who ran an iron foundry. ...

Quaker History/Architecture/Simplicity//Basilica restoration sheds light on original vision/Baltimore Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/1-Nov-06//... of pendentives, domes and barrel vaults, but the light -- pure and elemental -- calls to mind the simplicity of a country church or Quaker meetinghouse. ...

Quaker History/Architecture/Business/Religious Diversity/London Jews' Hidden Jewel/Wall Street Journal/New York/NY/USA/28-Oct-06//... In 1695 Jewish leaders signed a lease for a site on a street called Bevis Marks, and in 1699 commissioned a Quaker named Joseph Avis to build the synagogue. ...

Quaker History/Architecture//Tour historic Camco homes Saturday/Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/21-Oct-06//... Pomona Hall, the restored 1788 mansion on the edge of Camden that was home to one of the region's wealthiest families -- a Quaker clan that used slaves and ...

Quaker History/Annapolis Friends Meeting/Finch, Kim//Quakerism took root in this area 350 years ago/Annapolis Capital/Annapolis/MD/USA/27-Oct-06//... Quakerism. Quaker communities existed along the Severn, Patuxent, South, West and Rhode rivers, as well as on Broadneck and Kent Island. ...