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Waterford Crystal, former producer of crystal glass, founded by Quakers in 1783, closed in 1851; the modern Waterford Wedgwood was not founded by Quakers, being the merger of a separate Waterford Crystal company founded in 1947 by non-Quaker Charles Bacik, and Wedgwood, founded by the Unitarian, Josiah Wedgwood. Western Union, founded by Ezra ...
[40] [41] Their books were burned, and most of their property confiscated. [40] Quaker Mary Dyer led to execution on Boston Common, 1 June 1660. In 1660, English Quaker Mary Dyer was hanged near [42] Boston Common for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. [43] She was one of the four executed Quakers known as the ...
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." [2]: 1
"Independent Quaker schools" are operated using Quaker principles and often include a majority of Quakers among trustees, but are not formally under care of a meeting. Abington Friends School, Abington, Pennsylvania, grades preK–12, under care of Abington Monthly Meeting, PYM (FGC)
Quaker men traditionally are clean-shaven. [7] Conservative Quaker women practice Christian headcovering by wearing a "scarf, bonnet, or cap" and "wear long-sleeved, long dresses". [7] The number of contemporary Friends voluntarily wearing traditional plain dress is growing and has been called by some Quakers "The New Plain". [8] [9]
Britain Yearly Meeting's current book of discipline is called Quaker Faith and Practice: The book of Christian discipline of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. The text of the first edition was originally approved by the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain in 1994, and it has ...
Herbert Fox Standing was an English Quaker that served as a medical missionary in Madagascar. Satyananda Stokes (born Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr.) was an American Quaker that settle in India. He spent his life serving the people there. Clifford Morgan Stubbs was a New Zealand Quaker who did missionary work in West China.
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 ...