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The Mount Pleasant Historic District encompasses the historic center of the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Founded in 1803 by anti-slavery Quakers, the village was an early center of abolitionist activity and a well-known haven for fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. The village center is relatively little altered since the ...
Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house near OH 150 in the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was built in 1814 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was the first Quaker yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies.
Mount Pleasant was laid out in 1803. It was named for its scenic landscape. [4] An early variant name was Jesse-Bobtown. [5] In 1802 [6] Nathan Updegraff of the Pennsylvanian Op den Graeff family settled north in Mount Pleasant. [7] His family belonged to the 19th-century Quaker families of Ohio [8] and produced a lot of Quaker Ministers and ...
Ohio Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House, east of Colerain, Belmont County, Ohio; Green Plain Monthly Meetinghouse, South Charleston, Clark County; Mount Pleasant Friends Meeting House, Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County; Wilmington Friends Meeting House, Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio [11] Pennsylvania See also Friends meeting houses in ...
They were engaged in 1848, and on January 29, 1849, they were married at Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Mrs. Lord had an artistic flair and entered items in various county fairs.
In 1802 [19] Nathan Updegraff, a great-great-grandson of Abraham, settled north in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson, Ohio. [20] This branch belonged to the 19th-century Quaker families of that state [21] and produced a lot of Quaker Ministers and elders.
Born near Mount Pleasant, Ohio, a descendant of the German and Dutch [1] Op den Graeff family, Jonathan was the son of David Benjamin Updegraff, a Quaker minister, and grandson of Nathan Updegraff, a delegate to Ohio's first constitutional convention. [2]
[1] [18] [19] The family later settled in the Quaker village of Mount Pleasant in Ohio when he was eleven. Richards later described his mother as a devout Methodist, and his father, a farmer, [7] [8] [19] as having "made no profession of religion". [1] Richards attended school in Mount Pleasant; he claimed that the teachers considered him well ...