Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Public Universal Friend [a] (born Jemima Wilkinson; November 29, 1752 – July 1, 1819) was an American preacher born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, to Quaker parents. . After suffering a severe illness in 1776, the Friend claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend, and afterward shunned both birth name and gendered pro
Credit - Lyudmila Lucienne—iStockphoto/Getty Images. ... born Jemima Wilkinson, promulgated a doctrine of radical gender equity born from their occult faith. During the 19th-century, ...
The Jemima Wilkinson House, also known as the Friend's Home, is a historic home located at Jerusalem in Yates County, New York. It is a five-bay, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story Federal-style residence built about 1809–1815. [2] It is named after the preacher known as the Public Universal Friend, whose previous name was Jemima Wilkinson. [3]
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 ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
In 1821, he published a History of Jemima Wilkinson (on-line version), a biography of the Public Universal Friend, described by historians as "hostile and inaccurate", and accused of having been written to influence a then-ongoing court case over land owned by the Society of Universal Friends. [1] [2] [3]
Christie Brinkley just reached a new milestone surrounded by family and friends.. On Sunday, Feb. 2, the model was all smiles as she celebrated her 71st birthday with those closest to her ...
On 14 July 1768, he married Jemima Tullekin Jones, daughter of a regimental colonel. [10] The union was, by all accounts, happy. They settled in Culford, Suffolk, where their children, Mary (28 June 1769 – 17 July 1840), and Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Marquess Cornwallis (19 October 1774 – 9 August 1823) were born. Jemima died on 14 April 1779 ...