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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
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]
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]
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 ...
The Short family lived on the Pegues Place plantation as sharecroppers. [1] She grew up in Bennettsville, South Carolina, where she had three daughters and two sons. [1] [2] Her husband, Weldon Harrington, left the family after 10 years of marriage. [2] In 1927, she moved north to work as a maid for a family in Nedrow, New York. [2] [3]
The family statement did not specify Wilkinson's cause of death, only stating that he "died suddenly" at home with his wife and daughters at his side. Wilkinson was 75 years old at the time of his ...
Wilkinson is survived by wife Diana Hardcastle, also an actor, who he married in 1988. They shared daughters Alice, 34, and Mollie, 31. The late British actor’s career
Mason was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Jemima James and Michael Mason, both songwriters. Mason is a direct descendant of the 19th-century philosopher William James. [1] [2] When Mason was five, he and his family moved from Tarrytown, New York to West Tisbury, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha's Vineyard.