Quaker History - period ended 4.1.2006

Quaker History/Women/Paul, Alice//Two women who dared/Trenton Times/Trenton/NJ/USA/21-Mar-06//... equality. Paul, a Quaker, grew up in a socially aware family. She studied at Swarthmore College and the New York School of Social Work. ...

Quaker History/Women/Mott, Lucretia/Dead ladies revival/Rockford Register Star/Rockford/IL/USA/28-Mar-06//... 1853. Lucretia Coffin Mott, a Quaker minister, is memorialized in the “Suffrage Statue,” on display in the US Capitol rotunda. ...

Quaker History/Women/Fell, Margaret/Women of God/Savannah Morning News/Savannah/GA/USA/22-Mar-06//... Years and various faiths in which the first woman entered the ministry in the U. S.

1660s - Quaker Margaret Fell published a famous pamphlet to justify equal roles for men and women in the denomination. The Society of Friends began to allow women to serve as ministers in the early 1800s.

1853: Congregationalist Church (an early form of the United Church of Christ).

1863: Universalist domination.

1865: Salvation Army is founded and ordains men and women. ...

Quaker History/Women/Anthony, Susan B./1984: Remembering Susan B. Anthony/Santa Cruz Sentinel/Santa Cruz/CA/USA/19-Mar-06//... busy" ... etc. Susan was born February 15, 1820, in South Adams, Mass. to Quaker parents who moved to New York State in 1846. She ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad/Westfield Friends Church/Celebrating a light in the darkness/Noblesville Daily Times/Noblesville/IN/USA/20-Mar-06//... Participants will then have an opportunity for lunch in downtown Westfield before heading south on Union Street to the Westfield Friends Church, 324 S. Union St ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad/Nye, Meader/Mapping a pathway to freedom/Albany Times Union/Albany/NY/USA/19-Mar-06//... know better. Reese, the county historian, and Meader Nye, a Quaker historian, are researching black history in the county. Going ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Brown, John/Brown, Moses/Brown vs. Brown: Brothers Go Head to Head/Providence Journal/Providence/RI/USA/14-Mar-06//…The Quakers were among the first to question the practice and, in 1773, they asked members to free their slaves. Not everyone agreed. Wealthy businessman Abraham Redwood and even a long-term Rhode Island governor refused to free their slaves and were disowned by the group.

Although the Quakers would help federal officials prosecute slave traders in the 1790s, they were seen as a quirky fringe group. A century earlier, the Puritans in Boston hanged Quakers and Roger Williams called them heretics.…... trade. Moses Brown, a devout Quaker after quitting the slave trade, was an abolitionist who pressed the government to end slavery. ...

Quaker History/Slavery///Rhode Island and the Slave Trade: The Rhode Island Slave Trade: A .../Providence Journal /Providence/RI/USA/17-Mar-06//... with the West Indies, Before the American Revolution" (unpublished thesis); Gladys E. Bolhouse, "Abraham Redwood: Reluctant Quaker, Philanthropist, Botanist ...

Quaker History/Protest/Temperance/200 years of Richmond history/Palladium-Item/Richmond/IN/USA/22-Mar-06//... also much of the nation. Quaker and Presbyterian women -- and others -- marched against saloons. The "praying bands" were organized ...

Quaker History/Immigration/Norway//Ellis Island exhibit to mark 175th anniversary/Norway.org/Oslo/Norway/E.U./27-Mar-06//The Norwegian immigrants, which included a baby girl born somewhere on the Atlantic, were mainly Quaker sympathizers and thus had been subject to persecution ...

Quaker History/Henry, George and Betty//Friendsville's history to be festival topic/Knoxville News Sentinel /Knoxville/TN/USA/30-Mar-06//... The Canadian Web site religioustolerance.org says the society got its Quaker name from a court appearance by Fox during which he challenged the judge to ...

Quaker History/Civil Rights/Dyer, Mary//Heroes and their brave deeds offer hope for the future/The Olympian/Olympia/WA/USA/24-Mar-06//... Another hero was a Quaker woman, Mary Dyer. Mary went to Boston in spite of a law that banished Quakers from Boston under pain of death. She was imprisoned and banished. Mary went back to Boston and was imprisoned and threatened with execution. She returned yet again and was hanged. Mary Dyer is credited in Boston for the First Amendment!. ...

Quaker History/Business/Clothier, Isaac/Strawbridge, Justus/Cherry Hill Mall makeover set/Cherry Hill Courier Post/Cherry Hill/NJ/USA/22-Mar-06//... centers.". Strawbridge & Clothier was founded in 1862 by Quaker merchants Justus Clayton Strawbridge and Isaac Hallowell Clothier.

Quaker History/Business/Brewing/Gray, Walker/Classic design stands test of time/Enfield & Haringey Independent/London/England/UK/17-Mar-06//... and Portland Stone. Originally named Southgate Grove, the mansion was built in 1797 for a Quaker brewer, Walker Gray. After Gray's ...

Quaker History/Architecture/Brink Pattern/Re-enactors commemorate the Hancock House massacre/Today's Sunbeam/Salem/NJ/USA/26-Mar-06//... Hancock. It is recognizable throughout Salem County as one of the few colonial homes with the Quaker style brink patterns on its sides. ...