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A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...
Seaville Friends Meeting House, Seaville, Cape May County (This 1716–1727 meeting house is the smallest frame Quaker meeting house in the United States. [9]: 279 ) Stony Brook Meeting House and Cemetery, Princeton; Trenton Friends Meeting House, Trenton; Upper Greenwich Friends Meetinghouse, Mickleton, Gloucester County
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Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations."
State Term Notes Start End Length of service (days) William Windom: Republican: Minnesota: July 15, 1870: January 22, 1871: 191 (191 days) Successor qualified [1] March 4, 1871: March 7, 1881: 3,656 (10 years, 3 days) Resigned to become United States Secretary of the Treasury [1] March 7, 1889: January 29, 1891: 693 (1 year, 328 days) Lost re ...
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This is a list of notable businesses, organizations or charities founded by Quakers.Many of these are no longer managed or influenced by Quakers. At the end of the article are businesses that have never had any connection to Quakers, although some people may believe that they did or still do.
Conservative Friends in the United States are part of three small Quaker Yearly Meetings in Ohio, North Carolina and Iowa. Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) is generally considered the most Bible-centred of the three, retaining Christian Quakers who use plain language, wear plain dress, and are more likely to live in villages or rural areas ...