Quaker History - period ended 4.15.2007

Quaker History/War/WWII/Humanitarian Assistance/A narrow escape/Durango Herald/Durango/CO/USA/11-Apr-07//After he spent 2½ years at a home for Holocaust refugees outside Paris, a Quaker group arranged for Greene and a hundred other children to come to the ...

Quaker History/Humanitarian Assistance/War//"Bus-eum" comes to Pontiac/Pontiac Daily Leader/Pontiac/IL/USA/14-Apr-07//From 1939-43, 186 refugees came to Scattergood Hostel, a Quaker boarding school near Iowa City. He also interviewed 55 German soldiers who had been POWs in ...

Quaker History/Business//Open house at rescued historic house/SalemNews.com/Salem/MA/USA/14-Apr-07//The Samuel Pope House, 69 Boston St., which was built around 1740 by a Quaker blacksmith, was nominated four years ago for Historic Salem Inc.'s most ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Clarkson, Thomas/Amazingly graceless remarks by dull critics/Times Online/London/England/UK/30-Mar-07//It depicts allies like Thomas Clarkson, James Stephen and Pitt himself; and acknowledges the Quaker letter-writing campaign, the vast petition and the slave ...

Quaker History///Miami County celebrates history/Dayton Daily News/Dayton/OH/USA/12-Apr-07//The museums offer displays on topics from railroad history to rural living, education and Quaker heritage. "We thought this would be a good way to do it, ...