Quaker History - period ended 12.15.2006

Quaker History/Underground Railroad/Abolition/Suffrage/Wrecking ball looms again/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle/Rochester/NY/USA/6-Dec-06//(December 5, 2006) — FARMINGTON — Judith Wellman used to drive by the historic Quaker meetinghouse in Farmington wondering what could be done to save this ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad//Underground Railroad Museum coming together in York City/York Dispatch/York/PA/USA/11-Dec-06//... and others will act as people who would have interacted with him during his day, like a farmer who sells him merchandise or a Quaker abolitionist who works ..

Quaker History/Richardson, William/Penn, William/Anne Arundel History/Baltimore Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/3-Dec-06//…. William Penn, a well-born Englishman and a Quaker, was granted a royal charter to found and govern a large, rich American colony that he named Pennsylvania. The son of a famous admiral was becoming a royal nuisance to King Charles II, who didn't care to keep jailing members of the new Religious Society of Friends.

Peaceable in his dealings and treaties with American Indians, Penn was land-hungry when it came to settling the borders between Quaker Pennsylvania and Catholic Maryland. He journeyed to Maryland in December 1682 for a face-to-face conference with Charles Calvert, the third Lord Baltimore. While in the state, he visited a Quaker friend, William Richardson, at his home in what is now Anne Arundel County, a couple of miles from Route 468.

The boundary between the states, a source of contention, was not finally established until the Mason-Dixon Line was drawn nearly a century later.

[Jamie Stiehm with Paul McCardell, Sun library researcher, and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission] …s. ...

Quaker History/Religious Faith/Hoover, Herbert/DESIREE COOPER: Critic of Quran use hasn't done homework/Detroit Free Press/Detroit/MI/USA/19-Dec-06//... truthfulness is always expected. Quaker President Herbert Hoover, "affirmed" his oath of office instead. Over the years, members ...

Quaker History/Religious Faith/Hoover, Herbert/Ellison not first to forgo Bible for oath/The Christian Century/Chicago/IL/USA/18-Dec-06// ... Herbert Hoover, citing his Quaker beliefs, also affirmed his oath in 1929 but did use a Bible, according to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural ...

Quaker History/Religious Diversity/Tolerance/Underground Railroad/When talk turns to diversity, the city tells two tales/Greensboro News Record/Greensboro/NC/USA/9-Dec-06//... All this happened in a city, founded on inclusive Quaker principles, where Jews found friends in the Protestant South, and the sit-in movement and the Underground Railroad, two symbols of racial justice, took root.

You get the idea. So does Walker Sanders, executive director of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.

"I think Greensboro has gotten off track,'' Sanders says. "We forgot what took us there, the values of inclusivity and diversity, and if we only think we need to embrace people who act like us and protect what we've got, then our economic base will continue to crumble.
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Quaker History/Quaker-Amish//Quaker towns tell Ohio stories/Cincinnati Enquirer/Cincinnati/OH/USA/17-Dec-06//... Many people think of eastern Ohio as Amish country, and it certainly is that. However, just as prevalent are Quaker communities from Canton to Belpre. ...

Quaker History/Prison Reform/Ghosts//'One day Gilbert & George walked into the bar, and my life changed .../The Observer/London/England/UK/16-Dec-06//... And then there is Elizabeth Fry. According to Sandra, the ghost of the Quaker prison reformer lives in the cellar of the Golden Heart and occasionally flits across the saloon bar. I can't quite see myself why Elizabeth Fry should want to lurk in a pub cellar but Sandra explains. 'She protects me. Sometimes she turns the beer taps off. I do believe that.' And when Sandra tells you she believes something in that tone of voice, you do not argue. She has a will of iron. Although she has an excellent relationship with the local police, she rarely needs to call them - if there is ever any trouble in the pub, she evicts the wrongdoers herself. 'It's easier for a woman,' she explains. 'I just tell them to leave.'...

Quaker History/Penn, William//Anne Arundel History/Baltimore Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/4-Dec-06//William Penn, a well-born Englishman and a Quaker, was granted a royal charter to found and govern a large, rich American colony that he named Pennsylvania

Quaker History/Natural Science/Astronomy/Mitchell, Maria/Kenneally: A legacy of learning/West Roxbury & Roslindale Transcript/Roxbury/MA/USA/6-Dec-06//... In 1848, Quaker-born Maria Mitchell of Nantucket, following her discovery of a comet, became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and ...

Quaker History/Meetinghouse/Simplicity//Inspired by 350-year history/The News Journal/Wilmington/DE/USA/3-Dec-06//... The meeting house itself has much in common with Quaker Meeting houses – simple in design and free of images that might have been distracting in the 18th ...

Quaker History/Meetinghouse/Saratoga Friends Meeting/Seiler, George/Worship house more than 200 years old still running/The Saratogian/Saratoga/NY/USA/19-Dec-06//... Ruth Ralston, clerk of the Meeting, said that, as a Quaker, 'your whole life reflects moderation in possession, non-violence, respect for every person.'. ...

Quaker History/Holidays/Boone, Daniel/Daniel Boone Homestead's Christmas event a study in contrasts/Reading Eagle/Reading/PA/USA/7-Dec-06//... The Quaker non-observance of Christmas will also be interpreted by relating the work and chores that would be done at this time of year. ...

Quaker History/Free Quakers/Hillman, Samuel/Gunsmith Unearths Buried Treasure/Rocktown Weekly/Rocktown/VA/USA/19-Dec-06//... James, whose will was found in the gun, is the cousin of Josiah Hillman, the original owner whose name is inscribed on the gun.

Musser still isn’t sure how Josiah, the original owner, got his hands on the gun. But in his research, he learned that James’ father was Samuel Ashbrook Nicholson Hillman, a man dubbed "the Fighting Quaker." Musser’s research shows that Samuel was captured by the British and died during the war. ...

Quaker History/Equality///Spotlight dogs Moorestown/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/19-Dec-06//... Despite its humble Quaker beginnings, Moorestown has long been the home of high-powered types, sort of the Aspen of South Jersey. Lots of doctors live there. ...

Quaker History/Disownment///Revolutionary spirit/Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/19-Dec-06//... Paine became good friends with Joseph Kirkbride, from a disavowed Quaker family, who lived in Falls Township, Bucks County."It must have been a friendship that ...

Quaker History/Business/The Economist/Wilson, James/Celebrating our own 'Economist'/Borders Today/London/England/UK/7-Dec-06//... Hawick. Hawick? Yes, it was founded by James Wilson, a Hawick Quaker who thought the Corn Laws a monstrous tyranny. The Economist ...

Quaker History/Arts/Poetry/Whittier, John Greenleaf/Snow-Bound Weekend/Boston Globe/Boston/MA/USA/17-Dec-06//... Haverhill: Snow-Bound Weekend, a celebration commemorating the birth of Quaker, poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, continues today, 10 am-4 pm, at ...

Quaker History/Arts/Painting/Hicks, Edward/‘Peaceable Kingdom’ Is to Be Auctioned/New York Times,/New York/NY/USA/7-Dec-06//... Mr. Hicks, a Quaker leader who supported himself first as a coach and sign painter and later as a serious artist, was best known for his depictions of the ...

Quaker History/Arts/Painting/Hicks, Edward*/Make room for Christ this Christmas/The Times/Tigard/OR/USA/7-Dec-06//... children. One person who prepared for and received Christ was Edward Hicks (1780-1849), who was a Quaker, religious leader and painter. ...

Quaker History/Affirmation/Oaths/Hoover, Herbert/Why not the Quran?/Macon Telegraph/Macon/GA/USA/3-Dec-06//... Some (starting with Washington) kissed the Bible. Some didn't. • Franklin Pierce and Herbert Hoover (a Quaker) did not take an oath, but "affirmed.". ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Raised-a-Quaker/And what rough fish, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward .../Pioneer Press/St. Paul/MN/USA/16-Dec-06//..."There's yet another — and local — link to be made to Cassius Marcellus Clay. Cassius Marcellus Coolidge was the artist who painted — for St. Paul's own Brown & Bigelow company — the famous series of dogs playing poker. When the artist was born in 1844, his anti-slavery Quaker parents named him after the already well-known Cassius Marcellus Clay (born 1810)....

Quaker History///Friends of Tullie House/Cumberland News/Cumberland/England/UK/8-Dec-06//... Dr John Heysham, MD was born to a prosperous ship owner in Lancaster in 1753 and after a Quaker education and an early medical apprenticeship, he took a degree in medicine at Edinburgh University in 1777.

His dissertation was on rabies, a disease he never actually encountered. ...

Quaker History///Saving Family History?/Phoenixville News/Phoenixville/PA/USA/7-Dec-06//... "Our family has been here for 110 years," Brown said. Her great-grandmother, who was a Quaker, bought the land. "It was her land," Brown said. ...

Quaker History///Lynchburg's Civil War history - on disk/Lynchburg News and Advance/Lynchburg/VA/USA/17-Dec-06//... Besides the actual battle, the DVD also touches on some other aspects of Lynchburg history, the Quaker Meeting House, the Presbyterian Cemetery and, of course ...