Quaker History

Quaker History/Women/Anthony, Susan B./Happy Birthday Susan B. Anthony! Rebel With a Cause/Signal/Santa Clara/CA/USA/13-Feb-07//Anthony is famous for her work advancing women's right to vote. But did you also know that she was a Quaker, a poet at 14, was sent away for an education because her local school refused females in the classroom, became a teacher, (subsequently earning one quarter what men were paid as teachers), campaigned against slavery and was one of the earliest women to be known only by first name? (Long before we started putting popular singers up there with political icons.)

Quaker History/Temperance/Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania alcohol sales: Store responsibility can limit alcohol .../Penn State Digital Collegian/State College/PA/USA/9-Feb-07//This signifies a break with the state's Quaker tradition of keeping alcohol in very specific, limited areas. Perhaps this is a hint that one day ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Underground Railroad/Black History Month: Valley’s role on Underground Railroad still .../Terre Haute Tribune Star/Terra Haute/IN/USA/11-Feb-07//Although raised in the Hindu religion, he was converted to Christianity by Quaker missionaries. He became licensed to preach in 1812, according to Marlene ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Penn, William/In Pennsylvania and in Bucks, a history of slavery/phillyBurbs.com/Philadelphia/PA/USA/13-Feb-07//William Penn, the Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681, owned slaves, by some counts at least 12. They worked his Bucks County estate, ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Abolition/Brown, Moses/Slavery in Rhode Island/RIC The Anchor/Providence/RI/USA/13-Feb-07//…One cannot speak of slavery in R.I. without addressing the legacy of the Brown brothers. This family ran the biggest slave trading business in all of New England and throughout the years created phenomenal profits. “When James Brown sent the Mary to Africa in 1736, he launched Providence into the Negro traffic and laid the foundation for the Brown fortune. From this year until 1790, the Browns played a commanding role in the New England slave trade.”[1] Their donations to Rhode Island College were so generous that the name was changed to Brown University” (Lorenzo Johnston Greene, The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776). Quaker abolitionists soon clashed with the Newport slave shipping interest and were faced with opposition from the wealthy and the powerful. The emancipation of Africans was met with intense opposition but was eventually eased in, in the 1800s.….

Quaker History/Slavery/Abolition//Early African-American History is Topic of Next Installment in .../SUNY Old Westbury/Westbury/NY/USA/10-Feb-07//During her career, Dr. Velsor has received numerous grants to research the Quaker involvement in the Underground Railroad on Long Island. ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Abolition/Tappan, Louis/House-Turned-Museum Still Faces Wrecking Ball/Brooklyn Downtown STAR/Brooklyn/NY/USA/8-Feb-07//He was the treasurer of the American Missionary Association, a Quaker abolitionist group founded by Louis Tappan. In 1850 his name is on a newspaper article ...

Quaker History/Slavery/Abolition/Coffin, Levi/Caldwell Park center to tell story of first citizen/Greensboro News Record/Greensboro/NC/USA/8-Feb-07//Levi Coffin, a Quaker leader in nearby New Garden (now Guilford College) who helped found the Underground Railroad that led slaves to freedom, ...

Quaker History/Religious Faith/Christian/Trueblood, Elton/More to a job than just the work/The Valley Chronicle/CA/USA/10-Feb-07//He was a Quaker and one of the great Christian philosophers of the 20th century. In his book “The Yoke of Christ,” Trueblood reminds us: “The greatest ...

Quaker History/Religious Faith/Christian/Abolition/Born into slavery, Sojourner Truth was a voice for freedom/Times Herald-Record/Middletown/NY/USA/6-Feb-07//Truth was born a slave in Ulster County in 1797. Her real name was Isabella Baumfree. As a young woman, she ran away from her master and lived for a while with a Quaker family. With them, she became exposed to religion.

Quaker History/Quaker Schools//Black History Month: Indiana’s first black legislator attended .../Terre Haute Tribune Star/Terra Haute/IN/USA/9-Feb-07//Hinton, who also studied at a Quaker school in southern Vigo County, was the first black trustee of the Wabash & Erie Canal. ...

Quaker History/Penn, William/Paine, Thomas/Tom Paine blunder in visitor guide/Sussex Express/Sussex/England/UK/14-Feb-07//The opening paragraph reads in part that illustrious people lived or died in the area, 'from the famous Quaker, Willian Penn of Pennsylvania, ...

Quaker History/Penn, William/Paine, Thomas/Tom Paine blunder in visitor guide/Seaford Today/Seaford/England/UK/14-Feb-07//The opening paragraph reads in part that illustrious people lived or died in the area, 'from the famous Quaker, Willian Penn of Pennsylvania, ...

Quaker History/Medicine/Philadelphia/Native Americans/Three women having their big days/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/Milwaukee/WI/USA/4-Feb-07//Born to a Mohawk woman and raised by a prominent Quaker Philadelphia physician, Minoka married Charles Hill, an Oneida, and practiced as Wisconsin's first ...

Quaker History/Lincoln, Abraham//Could Lincoln's views uplift our own?/New Haven Register/New Haven/CT/USA/10-Feb-07//The following is a portion of a brief, handwritten autobiography that Lincoln sent to an inquiring citizen in 1859.

"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia. ... My mother, who died in my 10th year, was of a family of the name of Hanks. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from ... Virginia. ... His ancestors were Quaker. ... My father at the death of his father was but 6 years of age. ... He grew up literally without education. ... He removed from Kentucky to Illinois in my eighth year about the time this state came into the Union. .... ...

Quaker History/Education/Usefulness/Fell, Jesse/ISU celebrates 150th anniversary/Bloomington Pantagraph/Bloomington/IL/USA/10-Feb-07//….But forward-thinking Illinoisans, like Bloomington entrepreneur Jesse Fell and his friend Jonathan Baldwin Turner, a Yale-educated science professor-turned-agribusinessman, wanted more.

Turner pushed for an "industrial" university that would teach more than the classic Latin and Greek of traditional universities, adding agriculture and engineering for the betterment of the country's future. Fell was one of the first to join his Industrial League.. …..Fell was a Quaker who helped establish the Unitarian Church, and Edwards later became a Protestant minister. Many of the men also were abolitionists. ...

Quaker History/Business/Temperance/Cadbury, John/Chocolate lovers sweet on February holiday/Blairsville Dispatch/Blairsville/PA/USA/9-Feb-07//Ironically, while chocolates today are often seen as a sinful indulgence, Cadbury originally entered the chocolate trade due to his belief, as a Quaker, against indulging in alcohol.

Setting up shop in Birmingham in the early 19th century, he served cocoa and drinking chocolate, along with tea and coffee, as alternatives to spirits. ...

Quaker History/Business/Haines, Reuben/Founder had foresight to build a fort/Centre Daily Times/State College/PA/USA/4-Feb-07//There "he was fortunate enough to come in contact with Reuben Haines, a wealthy Quaker of high standing" who, as Mitchell described, was eager to get into ...

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/Business/Cadbury, John/Chocolate facts/Richmond Times Dispatch/Richmond/VA/USA/11-Feb-07//Quakers were instrumental in popularizing chocolate. Believing it to be a healthy alternative to other drinks, including gin, several Quaker families entered the chocolate trade. Among them, the Cadburys, a name still associated with chocolate. Source: Chantal Coady's "Chocolate: The Food of the Gods", ...

Quaker History/Arts/Poetry/Whittier, John Greenleaf/John Greenleaf Whittier: Wielding a powerful poetical pen/Journal Gazette and Times-Courier/IL/USA/10-Feb-07//All the more remarkable: Whittier was a semi-invalid, lived most of his celibate life in impoverished circumstances, and, as a Quaker, he advocated pacifism ...

Quaker History/Arts/Fabric/Quilts/Broken chains/Baltimore Sun/Baltimore/MD/USA/5-Feb-07//A Quaker's table with secret compartments for abolitionist tracts. A contemporary quilt with images recounting the history of slavery in Maryland. ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Women//Historic abolitionist comes to life/Chester Observer Tribune/Chester/NJ/USA/9-Feb-07//Washington told of Truth finding protection in the home of a Quaker family, the Van Wagners, who took her and her baby in. After Truth found out that her son, Peter, who was 5-years-old, had been sold illegally to a slave owner in the South by Dumont, she walked barefoot from court to court, consulting with lawyers, until he was freed.

As her son, Peter, took off on a whaling ship, never to be heard from again, Washington told of Truth’s move to Massachusetts, where she began actively fighting for the rights of blacks and women. ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Lewelling Quaker Museum/Lewelling House update: Historical homework assignment/Mt. Pleasant News/IA/USA/15-Feb-07//She can document about 50 people leaving the Salem Friends Church in Salem during the early 1840s because they were willing to break the laws to help the ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Bacon, Allen/Bacon, Margaret Hope/Viewing a little-noticed saga/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/9-Feb-07//Allen Bacon and his wife, Margaret Hope Bacon, have a mixed marriage. He's a birthright Quaker whose ancestors settled in New Jersey in 1696. She was reared an Episcopalian.

"She got a gold star for attendance," Allen Bacon said proudly.

"No, I received the Bishop's Cross for an essay I wrote about church history," Margaret Bacon corrected.

Quakers and Episcopalians have a speckled record of compatibility, but the union of the Bacons has lasted 65 years and shows no signs of fissuring now. One reason, no doubt, is that Allen Bacon has come to realize an abiding truth: With regard to facts, best to defer to his wife.. ...

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. ...