Quaker History - period ended 5.1.2006

Quaker History/War/Greene, Nathanael//RI’s Revolutionary hero started life as a Quaker/Woonsocket Call,/Woonsocket/RI/USA/24-Apr-06/... 7, 1742, to a prosperous Quaker farmer. ... Because of his interest in many military affairs, the Quaker fellowship expelled him due to its opposition to war. ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad/Tolerance//Preservationist set to put free black farms on map/Cincinnati Enquirer/Cinncinatti/OH/USA/20-Apr-06/... constitution in 1816. Many Hoosiers of the time favored slavery, but Indiana also had a racially tolerant Quaker population. "The Negro ...

Quaker History/Underground Railroad///Coffin House historic marker in place/Jamestown News/Jamestown/NC/USA/19-Apr-06/... markers include, the original Shubal Coffin House, Madison Lindsey House, Potter House, Magnolia Farm, Mendenhall Barn, Mendenhall Store, Quaker Meeting House ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Jones, Silas//Classes experience settlers’ life/Fayetteville Online/Fayetteville/NC/USA/1-May-06/... The cabin was built by Silas Jones, a Quaker, between 1790 and 1810. It is believed that Jones and other Quakers left after slavery started in the region. ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Humanitarian Assistance/Nature-Nurture/Bad childhood no excuse for bad actions/Enid News & Eagle/Enid/OK/USA/22-Apr-06/... Dean Koontz went on to become a best-selling author whose books have been published in 38 languages. Nine of his books have reached No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list.

A girl born as a slave in upstate New York was sold as a teenager to another master, who forced her to marry a fellow slave. They had five children, some of whom were sold by their master.

At the age of 30 she escaped her cruel master and was taken in by a Quaker family.

Sojourner Truth could neither read nor write, but she became an eloquent champion for the abolition of slavery and women’s rights, and espoused the radical claim that a woman could do any job as well as any man.. ...

Quaker History/Real Estate Development/Underground Railroad/Waterford, VA/County’s Underground Railroad route to be dedicated Wednesday/Frederick News Post/Frederick/MD/USA/26-Apr-06/... Proceed about six miles to Waterford, an old, very well-preserved Quaker village settled in 1732 and the heart of the Underground Railroad in northern Virginia ...

Quaker History/Politics and Economics/Nixon, Richard//1994: Next 'second act' begins for Nixon/Pocono Record/Scranton/PA/USA/15-Apr-06/Born to poor Quaker parents in California — his father owned a lemon farm that went bust; he then ran a grocery store — the overachieving Nixon managed to ...

Quaker History/Politics and Economics/Nixon, Richard//The Real Intelligence/National Review Online/New York/NY/USA/27-Apr-06/... JJA: Well you know how Nixon hated the CIA, he thought we were all a bunch of effete Ivy League intellectuals who despised him, a simple soul from a Quaker background, etc., and he didn't trust CIA analyses.

ML: Okay, nothing new there. When I was in the Reagan administration there was general distrust of those analyses too.

JJA: Right, especially the stuff about the Soviets, which invariably put the most benign possible interpretation on their actions. Part of that came from the instincts of the analysts, but part of it came from the actions of the KGB, both abroad and, to a frightening degree, within the CIA. Our shop had identified many likely KGB and GRU moles inside CIA, and some of our people wanted to start a very aggressive mole hunt, but Nixon wouldn't hear of it, despite his antipathy to the place.

ML: Because of political fallout?

JJA: Yes, there was that — the ACLU and the 1st Amendment extremists would have been all over it, arguing that it was just an excuse for the politicization of intelligence, suppression of dissent, and so forth — but there were also the practical considerations, which I shared: the place was so riddled with penetrations that we'd never be able to feel confident we'd solved the problem. Second, any investigation would risk blowing the cover of the good operations we were running against the Soviets, and third, the publicity would worry our allies, who would cut back on their cooperation with us. ...

Quaker History/Penn, William///Subida Domingo, 16 de Abril de 2006/Hoy Tamaulipas/Nuevo Laredo/Nuevo Leon/Mexico/16-Apr-06/… Las colonias de Maryland, establecida en 1634 como refugio para católicos, y Pennsylvania, fundada en 1681 por el dirigente cuáquero William Penn, también se caracterizaron por su tolerancia religiosa.

Con el paso del tiempo, las colonias británicas de América del Norte fueron ocupadas también por muchos grupos de origen no británico; agricultores alemanes se establecieron en Pennsylvania, los suecos fundaron la colonia de Delaware y los primeros esclavos africanos llegaron a Virginia en 1619....

Quaker History/Passivist/Brown, Moses//Moses and John Brown, reexamined/Providence Journal/Providence/RI/USA/29-Apr-06/... family during the Revolutionary era, are familiar enough around here: John, the pugnacious Revolutionary-era slave trader, and Moses, the Quaker passivist and ...
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Quaker History/Pacifism/Brown, Moses//Portrait of the Brown brothers/Providence Journal/Providence/RI/USA/29-Apr-06/... enterprises. Eventually, he became a Quaker. ... Revolution. As a Quaker, Moses adopted pacifistic means to support the cause of Liberty. ...

Quaker History/Natural Science/Horticulture/Hiatt, Jesse/Red Delicious apples fade in popularity/Capital Press/Salem/OR/USA/29-Apr-06/A Quaker by the name of Jesse Hiatt found a seedling growing out of place in his orchard in Peru, Iowa, in 1872. He chopped it down. It grew back the next year. He chopped it down again. When it grew back the third time, Hiatt is reputed to have said: “If thee must grow, thee may.”

In the weird and wonderful way nature has, a genetic variation created a new apple. Hiatt called it the Hawkeye, after his home state, but in 1893 it won first place in a contest to find the next big apple variety. The promoter chose its name after taking a bite. “My, that’s delicious,” he said.. ...

Quaker History/Natural Science/Bartram, William//Florida Nature Writer Comes to Life/The Ledger/Lakeland/FL/USA/20-Apr-06/..... A Native American chief gave the Quaker botanist the affectionate nickname "Puc Puggy," or "flower hunter," for his quest to collect plant samples from ... ...

Quaker History/Immigration/Opinion//US history full of immigrant bashing/Sacramento Bee/Sacramento/CA/USA/16-Apr-06/... Rohrabacher's rantings are nothing new. Natives have resented immigrants throughout our history. In 1717, Philadelphia Quakers complained of "swarms of people, strangers to our laws and customs" who were flooding into Pennsylvania, a Quaker colony reserved for William Penn and his followers. These were the Scots-Irish, and in the next 50 years so many arrived that they formed the basic building bloc of the United States. More Americans have Scots-Irish ancestry than anything else. ...

Quaker History/Farmers Institute///McCutcheon geographers survey sacred spaces/The Courier-Journal/Indianapolis/IN/USA/24-Apr-06/... other features. Farmers Institute, a Quaker church built in 1851 on County Road 660 South, is Greek Revival architecture. Most of ...

Quaker History/Business/Education/Morrell, John Bowes/York residents fight university expansion/Guardian Unlimited/London/England/UK/26-Apr-06/...York has a very close relationship with the university too. The city fought a spectacular campaign in 1963 to beat Stamford, the then-fancied rival for the one new university the government had on offer. The case was clinched by the purchase of Heslington hall and its estate by John Bowes Morrell, one in the great line of Quaker philanthropists from York, who then donated it specifically for university use. ...

Quaker History/Business///Beware the Russian revolution/This is Money/London/England/UK/27-Apr-06/... Such values are part of its genetic make-up as a firm with Quaker origins. So the views of chief executive Todd Stitzer have great resonance. ...

Quaker History/Architecture/Kelly, Richard//History is served Kennebec Historical Society acquires china set .../MaineToday.com/Augusta/ME/USA/18-Apr-06/... On Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., Richard Kelly of Vassalboro, a Quaker historian and writer, will offer a presentation on the various architectural styles found in the area, including federal, craftsman, Greek revival, Italianate, carpenter gothic and Queen Anne. The presentation will be at the Unitarian Universalist Community Church, 69 Winthrop St., Augusta.e ...

Quaker History/Architecture/Barrett, James//Tour spotlights a brick motif/Today's Sunbeam/Salem/NJ/USA/30-Apr-06/... Eleven homes were on display this year in a tour entitled "Bricks and Mortar" that focused on historic brick homes throughout Salem County.

Craig and Gaynel Schneeman, owners of the James Barrett House located at 203 Old King's Highway, purchased the home two in a half years ago and entered it for the tour.

"It's been good," Craig said. "We've had a nice steady flow of people, and the weather has been great."

"We just enjoy showing our home and having the people come through," said Craig, who estimated that about 200 people had visited his home by midday.

The brick portion of the home was built in the 1790, Gaynel said. It belonged to James Barrett, who was a Quaker from Burlington. . ...

Quaker History/Architecture///Gateway process full of mistakes/Durham region news/Durham/Ontario/Canada/27-Apr-06/... Residents complained they had no voting input into the winning design. 'Wind Dancer' was criticized as lacking a connection to Uxbridge's Quaker roots. ...

Quaker History////Art school for scandal/Times Online/London/England/UK/26-Apr-06/... Benjamin West’s mother was banned from places of worship on grounds of fornication, but went into labour at her agitation on hearing a Quaker preacher); the ...