Quaker History - period ended 2.1.2007

Quaker History/Women///Wright to be inducted into Women's Hall of Fame/Auburn Citizen/Auburn/NY/USA/25-Jan-07//Martha Coffin Wright was born in Boston in 1806 but later lived in Aurora and Auburn, where she taught at a Quaker school for girls. ...

Quaker History/Wet Quaker/Franklin, Benjamin/Celebrating the birth of Ben Franklin/Eastern Echo//MI/USA/16-Jan-07//The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker." Despite his parents' wishes for him to become a man of the ...

Quaker History/Temperance/Arts/Painting/King Cole, a Grimy Old Soul, Heads for a Cleaning/New York Times/New York/NY/USA/17-Jan-07//The painting was commissioned for John Jacob Astor as an adornment for the hotel he financed, the Knickerbocker, at the southeast corner of Broadway and 42d Street. Parrish’s Quaker upbringing made him reluctant to paint a mural for a bar, Mr. Geraghty said, but the artist was offered a kingly sum for 1906, $5,000, to complete it. ...

Quaker History/Stackhouse, Amos//VISITING OUR PAST: After Civil War, Northerners discovered Hot Springs/Asheville Citizen-Times/Asheville/NC/USA/19-Jan-07//To this community in search of farmers and craftsmen came Amos Stackhouse, farmer and craftsman. Stackhouse, a Philadelphia Quaker who could trace his roots back to the Domesday Book of 1086 in England, was 52. He had tried his hand at various enterprises in a few different states - including Florida, where grapefruit was the ticket - and at a few marriages. He had just married Anna Myers, age 20. ...

Quaker History/Social Reform/Gurney, Hanah/Uncovering Norfolk's slave trade links/Norfolk Eastern Daily Press/Norfolk/England/UK/28-Jan-07//In 1801 he moved to Norwich where he became friends with the Quaker Gurney family. In 1807 he married Hannah Gurney and became an advocate for social reform ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Underground Railroad/Plenty of ways to mark Black History Month/Annapolis Capital/Annapolis/MD/USA/28-Jan-07//Then, two Quaker ladies appear and hustle the participants outside for their own escape through the woods. During this dramatization, participants learn ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Goodwin, Abigail/Robeson, Paul/Underground Railroad historian traces its local ties/Princeton Packet/Princeton/NJ/USA/23-Jan-07//... The Rev. Thomas Oliver, who studied at the Princeton Theological Seminary, conducted Underground Railroad assistance primarily from Camden, and Mr. Wright cited the Quaker, Abigail Goodwin, as one of the most important women contributing to the cause from her base in Salem.
In the days of the Underground Railroad, there were twin communities — such as New Hope and Lambertville, or Philadelphia and Camden — set up along the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey to convey escaped slaves into New Jersey., ...

Quaker History/Slavery///Eighteenth century cover-up? Bristol Town Clerk says rare document .../Warren Times Gazette/Warren/RI/USA/29-Jan-07//Born a Quaker, Paine lived a completely selfless life, following a consistent path of voluntary poverty and non-violence. Yet the Quakers refused to bury him....Also, Paine always preferred peace to war but he was not a complete pacifist; remember that he strongly advocated War with England in "Common Sense" and even penned a letter to the Quakers of PA to berate them for opposing the war.

Quaker History/Seaman, John//This Month in Levittown History/Levittown Tribune/Levittown/NY/USA/1-Feb-07//….1664: Capt. John Seaman acquired land from Takapausha of the Massapequan Indians south of Hempstead Turnpike on Feb. 12. Known as the Jerusalem Purchase, the acquisition included the southernmost part of present-day Levittown and most of Wantagh. His farm, "Cherrywood" (the origin of the Cherrywood Shopping Center) was near the intersection of North Jerusalem and Wantagh Avenue. A later purchase - a parcel of land owned by a John Strickland - expanded Seaman's holdings and he quickly sold off parcels to fellow Quaker farmers. The name Jerusalem (approx. southern Levittown and northern Wantagh) persisted until 1948 and was derived not merely from the Quaker practice of endowing settlements with Biblical monikers (Bethpage, Jericho, for example) but from the fact that a distant ancestor of the Seaman's fought in the crusade in Jerusalem with King Richard the Lion-Hearted. Because Capt. Seaman lived on his land rather than simply owning it like John Strickland, he is regarded as the first European settler to dwell in Levittown. …...

Quaker History/Religious Faith/Wright, Anthony/Wright, Lydia/Oyster Bay Church Achieves Landmark Status/Northender/Oyster Bay/Long Island/USA/29-Jan-07//That was the year Quaker Anthony Wright erected a meeting house for those who shared his religion on what may or may not have been the site of the current ...

Quaker History/Real Estate Development/Milhaus//New station needed/Whittier Daily News/Whittier/CA/USA/29-Jan-07//Many years ago, as a new secretary at First Friends Church, I remember looking up church records to try and trace families of those buried in what is now known as Founders Park on Broadway. In 1968 that old cemetery was officially named a park and the unclaimed headstones moved to the grounds of Pio Pico for storage. For a short period the public had access to the markers and took them for personal use, perhaps for garden attractions.

The remainder remained at Pio Pico until former director of the museum thought they could be used as a memorial wall in the museum parking lot. I believe the city, happy to have them no longer taking up space at Pio Pico, moved them to the museum. Now they are no longer part of the museum's plans.

I feel strongly that these headstones, representing early Whittier families, even the historic name of an unknown Milhaus, should be returned to the place of origin and become part of a memorial wall of office or even a small cemetery where visitors can peruse the names of early Whittier citizens. ...

Quaker History/Real Estate Development//To build or not to build?/Herts 24//England/UK/25-Jan-07//"Hitchin was a Quaker town and has a wonderful history and although I am all for progression, it shouldn't be at this pace." ...

Quaker History/Real Estate Development//£780k for Maryport centre/Times & Star/London/England/UK/26-Jan-07//The building, previously owned by the Society of Friends, was transferred to the ownership of a new group of trustees at the end of last year. ...

Quaker History/Raised-a-Quaker/Women/Saunders, Esther/Black women having their say/Newark Star Ledger,/Newark/NJ/USA/1-Feb-07//Esther "Hetty" Saunders (1793-1862): Saunders was a poet from Salem County whose work was published after her death. The daughter of an escaped slave from Delaware, she was reared and educated by a Quaker family. Her poems include "I Love to Live Alone" and "The Hill of Age."

Quaker History/Quaker Schools//Fight to stop pub's last orders/BBC News/London/England/UK/23-Jan-07//"It was originally built as a Quaker School over 200 years ago although we are not sure went it was then turned into a pub," said Mr Nurse. ...

Quaker History/Prison Reform/Solitary Confinement/Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad?/Time/New York/NY/USA/5-Feb-07//….The origin of solitary confinement in the U.S. is actually benign. It was the Philadelphia Quakers of the 19th century who dreamed up the idea, establishing a program at the city's Walnut Street prison under which inmates were housed in isolation in the hope of providing them with an opportunity for quiet contemplation during which they would develop insight into their crimes. That's not what has happened.

By the 1830s, evidence began to accumulate that the extended solitude was leading to emotional disintegration, certainly in higher numbers than in communal prisons. In 1890 the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, deploring solitary confinement for the "semi-fatuous condition" in which it left prisoners. The case was narrow enough that its effect was merely to overturn a single law in a single state, but the court's distaste for the idea of solitary was clear. "The justices saw it as a form of what some people now call no-touch torture," says Alfred W. McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of the book A Question of Torture. "It sends prisoners in one of two directions: catatonia or rage." …..

Quaker History/Poverty/Elderly/Paine, Thomas/Events mix Paine and pleasure/Packet Online/Princeton/NJ/USA/18-Jan-07//Many of Paine's written ideas on civil issues of equality and caring for the elderly didn't become realities until Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office in the 1930s.
"Bordentown was Quaker-founded, and Mr. Paine being a Quaker himself, a lot of his writings where pro-education, equality for both sexes, and about taking care of poor people," said Ms. Silver.
"Quakers were always very concerned about caring for the elderly, and in that sense, they are light years ahead of us," she added....

Quaker History/Politics and Economics/Cornell, Ezra/Cornell, Elijah/A carpenter and his first book/Cornell University News Service/Ithaca/NY/USA/1-Feb-07//Once again he moved his family, this time back to the De Ruyter Quaker community, north of Cortland, where he began farming. Conditions for pioneer farmers ...

Quaker History/Pacifism/Paine, Thomas/WHAT IT TAKES TO BE HONORED IN AMERICA/Huffington Post/New York/NY/USA/29-Jan-07//Born a Quaker, Paine lived a completely selfless life, following a consistent path of voluntary poverty and non-violence. Yet the Quakers refused to bury ...

Quaker History/Natural Science/Raised-a-Quaker/Young, Thomas/Reluctant polymath/Guardian Unlimited/London/England/UK/19-Jan-07//Despite his achievements, Young was always a modest man. "He never laid down the law like other learned doctors," recalled one Cambridge colleague. A Quaker by upbringing, many of his contributions to knowledge were published anonymously.. ...

Quaker History/Janney, Thomas/Penn, William/Work underway to create master plan for Patterson Farm/Yardley News/Yardley/PA/USA/19-Jan-07//The tour is a prelude to the development of a Master Plan for the sprawling farm, which dates back to the late 1600s when Thomas Janney, a Quaker minister ...

Quaker History/Humanitarian Assistance/Paine, Ruth//Oswald house eyed as museum/Washington Times/Washington/DC/USA/28-Jan-07//22, 1963, a Quaker woman named Ruth Paine lived at 2515 W. Fifth St., an unpretentious two-bedroom house, much like scores of others nearby. ...

Quaker History/Disownment/Cornell, Ezra/Happy Birthday, Ezra/The Cornell Daily Sun/Ithaca/NY/USA/30-Jan-07//Ezra’s rebellious tendencies were present at an early age. In 1831, he defied his Quaker upbringing and married Mary Ann Wood, an Episcopalian. Within a year, Ezra received notice from the Society of Friends that he had been formally excommunicated.

When an emissary from the group visited Ezra and told him that a simple expression of regret for his decision would lead to his reinstatement in the faith, Ezra tersely responded that his marriage was the best decision he made in his life. Needless to say, the Quakers never took him back. ...

Quaker History/Business/Women/Green, Betsy/Biography: When she was bad/U.S. News and World Report/New York/NY/USA/30-Nov-04//Born into a wealthy Quaker family, Green began learning finance by reading the business section of the newspaper to her partially blind father. When she was 30, she received an inheritance of about $10 million from the family's whaling fortune, and through prudent investments she turned it into over $100 million (or about $1.6 billion in today's dollars). Yet Green was bizarrely frugal.

Quaker History/Business/Rowntree, Joseph/A blueprint for Nestle/York Press/York/England/UK/18-Jan-07//It said the Quaker Rowntree family's "creativity and conscience" should provide inspiration for the site's future, with the most significant buildings along the Haxby Road frontage retained, possibly as part of a new conservation area.

"The buildings are a reminder of people, events and processes. They were designed to take advantage of sunlight, outlook, fresh air and natural ventilation," it said. ...

Quaker History/Business/Cornell, Ezra/2 opponents helped create university/Ithaca Journal/Ithaca/NY/USA/17-Jan-07//With these two men, Quaker and humanist, evolved the university's radical support of co-education, and its principle of freedom from domination by “persons ...

Quaker History/Business/Corbit, William/Odessa maintains history despite passage of time/The News Journal/Wilmington/DE/USA/1-Feb-07//A drive down Main Street will take you past the Corbit-Sharp House, a 22-room dwelling that was once home to William Corbit, a Quaker who operated a tannery ...

Quaker History/Bacon, Job/Bacon, Samuel/Record Armchair Swells Americana Auction Total/Maine Antique Digest/ME/USA/25-Jan-07//His father, Job Bacon, was a Quaker who lived at Bacon's Neck, a 260-acre property on the Cohansey River that he inherited from his father, Samuel Bacon, ...

Quaker History/Arts/Painting/Hicks, Edward/Americana on the Block/New York Sun/New York/NY/USA/16-Jan-07//The highlight of the Christie's sale is the last "Peaceable Kingdom" painting by Quaker artist Edward Hicks (1780–1849). It is estimated to sell for between ...

Quaker History/Arts/Painting/Hicks, Edward/`Peaceable Kingdom' Posts Record $6.2 Million in Sale (Update1)/Bloomberg/New York/NY/USA/19-Jan-07//Sold by descendants of the artist and Quaker minister, the painting had been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1938. ...

Quaker History/Agriculture/Farming//When a Home Wasn't As Much of a Castle/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/31-Jan-07//If Larkin could go back, it would be to Monticello, he joked. But what really enthralls him are the polychromatic brick houses of the mid-18th century built in the Quaker farming community of Lower Alloways Creek in southern New Jersey. "I think they're gorgeous." And if a shoemaker shows up, tell him to call Motel 6. ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Snowden, Thomas/Snowden, Ann/The Sentinel/Montgomery County Sentinel/Silver Spring/MD/USA/31-Jan-07//Despite its ownership of slaves, the property-owning Snowden family was Quaker. Major Thomas Snowden, who presided over the construction of the mansion from ...

Quaker History///Regional heritage workshop slated at Anne Arundel Community College/Annapolis Capital/Annapolis/MD/USA/1-Feb-07//Dr. Kenneth Carroll, preeminent scholar of Quaker history, will discuss the roots of American Quakerism in early Maryland. ...

Quaker Canon///Fort Humbug gets new cannon, marker/Shreveport Times/Shrevepart/LA/USA/31-Jan-07//John B. Magruder visited the fort and was dismayed by the presence of nothing but wooden "Quaker" cannon there. "Your fort is nothing but humbug! ...