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unusual facts about Quaker



Airton

There is still a Quaker meeting house, a squatter's cottage on the village green and an old mill on the River Aire from which the village is named.

Albert Kingsbury

2 Kingsbury died in 1943, and was buried at the Quaker Cemetery, Spring Mills, Pennsylvania.

Alphonse Mingana

The expedition was sponsored by John Rylands Library and Dr Edward Cadbury, the Quaker owner of the famous chocolate factory at Bournville, who Mingana had met through Rendel Harris.

Ammon Hennacy

Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio to Quaker parents, Benjamin Frankin Hennacy and Eliza Eunice Fitz Randolph, and grew up as a Baptist.

Battle of Wilmington

Under the direction of Lt. Commander William B. Cushing the Federal Navy constructed a Quaker (or fake) monitor to trick the Rebels into detonating their water mines to make way for Porter's gunboats.

Belle Kogan

In July 1932, she opened her own office at 185 Madison Avenue in New York City with a retainer from Quaker and started designing houseware products for Libbey Glass, Federal Glass, US Glass, Towle Mfg. Co., Maryland Plastics, and Bakelite Corp. Five years later, she traveled throughout Europe to study trends in Scandinavian design and by 1939 found herself at the forefront of modern design in the United States.

Brummana

The most renowned educational institute in Brummana is Brummana High School, which was founded by the Quaker, Theophilus Waldmeier in 1873.

Bushrod Johnson

He was raised as a Quaker and, before moving to the South, worked on the Underground Railroad with his uncle.

Christianity in the United States

Many sought refuge in New Jersey, Rhode Island and especially Pennsylvania, which was owned by William Penn, a rich Quaker.

Committee for Non-Violent Action

The CNVA's immediate antecedent, a committee known as Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, was formed by radical Quaker Lawrence Scott.

Donald J. Atwood Jr.

He lived on a small farm adjoining the ancestral home of the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

Edward Burroughs

Edward Burrough (1634–1663), early English Quaker leader and controversialist

Ernest Procter

Procter, like his father, attended school first in York at the Quaker Bootham Friends' School in York, New Yorkshire.

Ernest Procter was born into a Quaker family in 1886 in Tynemouth, Northumberland.

Francis Daniel Pastorius

Despite the Quaker sympathies of Pastorius, his name was appropriated in 1942 by the Abwehr of Nazi Germany for "Operation Pastorius," a failed sabotage attack on the United States in World War II that included a target in Philadelphia.

George Mosse

Mosse attended the Quaker Bootham School in York, England, whose teachers began to stimulate his intellectual curiosity, and where, according to his autobiography, he became aware of his homosexuality.

Go Inside to Greet the Light

Go Inside to Greet the Light is a film sponsored by Quaker Outreach in Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard was named after his great-uncle, the American Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).

Henry Christy

Christy was born at Kingston upon Thames, the second son of William Miller Christy of Woodbines, a Quaker banker who started out in hat manufacture with interests in Stockport, before becoming a financier.

Herman Husband

One of the many to be inspired to the Great Awakening after hearing George Whitefield preach, he became disenchanted with his original faith and became a "New Light" Presbyterian and then a Quaker.

History of the Puritans in North America

They returned to Virginia when the "Roundheads" appointed Bennett as governor there in 1652; later, in 1672, all of them, including Bennett, converted to the Quaker faith upon meeting its founder, George Fox.

Houghton Mill

The best-known miller is the nineteenth-century Quaker Potto Brown, a wealthy man who was so pious that he carried his ledgers to family prayer meetings in order to discuss with his Maker debts owed him.

Jeremiah Thompson

Jeremiah Thompson (1784-1835) was a New York merchant, ship owner, Quaker, officer in the New York Manumission Society (dedicated to freeing slaves), and co-founder (together with five other men, four of whom were also Quakers) including Isaac Wright in 1817 of the famous Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet).

John Archdale

The city of Archdale, North Carolina, which began as a Quaker settlement, was named for him because Archdale was himself a Quaker.

John Grubb Richardson

At the age of eleven, he boarded for three years at Ballitore, County Kildare (the same Quaker school attended by Edmund Burke) before attending another Quaker school at Frenchay, Gloucestershire.

Joseph Barcroft

Born in Newry, County Down into a Quaker family, he was the son of Henry Barcroft DL and Anna Richardson Malcomson of The Glen, Newry - a property purchased for his parents by his mother's uncle, John Grubb Richardson and adjoining his own estate in Bessbrook.

Joseph McDowell

Joseph J. McDowell (1800–1877), U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Joseph "Quaker Meadows" McDowell

Kilham

Hannah Kilham (1774–1832), Methodist and Quaker, wife of Alexander Kilham, known as a missionary and linguist

Lawrie Tatum

He was born to Quaker parents George and Lydia Tatum near Mullica Hill, New Jersey in 1822 and moved to Goshen, Ohio in 1831 followed by a move to Cedar County, Iowa in 1844.

Mabel Leigh Hunt

She was raised in Greencastle and, from age ten until her physician father died, in Plainfield (a center of Indiana Quaker activity).

Mallerstang

The grandson of one of these Quaker families, George Birkbeck, set up the “Mechanics Institute” in London, which later became Birkbeck College of the University of London.

Maria Louisa Bustill

Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.

Marriage license

From this date, a marriage was only legally valid, if it followed the calling of banns in church or the obtaining of a license—the only exceptions being Jewish and Quaker marriages, whose legality was also recognized.

Maxwell Knight

A notable failing was his entrapment of Ben Greene, the pacifist Quaker refugee worker who was interned by the then Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, as result of false evidence from Knight's agent provocateur Harald Kurtz.

Pennfield Parish, New Brunswick

Pennfield Parish was established in 1786: named by Pennsylvania Quakers for William Penn (1644-1718), English Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania: Pennfield Parish included Lepreau Parish until 1857.

Quaker Manor House

During the encampment, the Quaker Manor House served as the headquarters for Washington's Surgeon General, John Cochran.

Quaker State

Quaker State gets it name from the nickname for Pennsylvania, the state founded by William Penn, a Quaker.

Quakers in the Abolition Movement

Quaker colonists began questioning slavery in Barbados in the 1670s, but first openly denounced slavery in 1688, when four German Quakers, including Francis Daniel Pastorius, issued a protest from their recently established colony of Germantown, close to Philadelphia in the newly founded American colony of Pennsylvania.

Radway

Persecution of Radway's Quakers and the jailing of some led eventually to a small group emigrating in the 1680s to a Quaker colony in Gloucester County, West New Jersey.

Richard Waldron

Walderne was the local magistrate whose stern Puritan action in 1662 toward three persistent Quaker women proselytisers became the stuff of condemnatory poetry by Whittier.

Robert Menli Lyon

While there, he met James Backhouse, the Quaker, who heard him speak about the treatment of the Aborigines in Western Australia.

Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage and Cemetery

Their original Meeting House, built in 1719, was connected to a chain of Quaker Meeting Houses that were built along Great Road (near Union Village and Smithfield Road Historic District).

Taggart Hall

Taggart Hall was constructed in the 1790s by Frances Taggart (Tygart), a Quaker, on a lot at the corner of High Street and Gravel Lane laid out in the original Romney survey conducted in 1762 on behalf of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.

The Mysteries of Paris

Ned Buntline wrote The Mysteries and Miseries of New York in 1848, but the leading American writer in the genre was George Lippard whose best seller was The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall: a Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Crime (1844); he went on to found the paper The Quaker City as a vehicle for more of his mysteries and miseries.

Thomas Ellwood

On a second visit in December 1659, when Thomas attended a Quaker meeting at a neighbouring farmhouse and made the acquaintance of Edward Burrough and James Nayler.

Union County, Indiana

Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African-American member of the US Senate, representing Mississippi 1870-1871; attended the Union County Quaker Seminary.

Violet Tillard

She went with a Quaker mission organised by Joan Fry and in December of that year Tillard formally applied to become a member of the Religious Society of Friends.

Virginia State Route 420

The state highway passes its namesake, the Virginia Theological Seminary, just west of its intersection with Quaker Lane, which heads north as SR 402.

Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School

The school was named in honor of local resident, Quaker poet, and slavery abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.

William Weston Young

On 23 January 1803, Young and his wife moved to new lodgings in Swansea, Glamorganshire, where he had gained employment under fellow Quaker, Lewis Weston Dillwyn, as a "draftsman" at Dillwyn's Cambrian Pottery, where he remained until August 1806.


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