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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 ...
Senator Party State Term Notes Start End Length of service (days) William Windom: Republican: Minnesota: July 15, 1870: January 22, 1871: 191 days Successor qualified [1]: March 4, 1871
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 ...
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
Hudson Yards is located within two primary ZIP Codes. The area south of 34th Street is in 10001 and the area north of 34th Street is in 10018. [ 158 ] The United States Postal Service operates the RCU Annex Station post office at 340 West 42nd Street. [ 159 ]
Leek Quaker Meeting (1848), Staffordshire [3] Lewes Friends Meeting House, East Sussex, listed Grade II; Littlehampton Friends Meeting House, West Sussex, listed Grade II; Osmotherley Friends Meeting House (1723), North Yorkshire, listed Grade II; Stafford Quaker Meeting (1730), Staffordshire, a listed building [4]
Some Liberal Quaker yearly meetings are members of ecumenical pan-Christian organisations, which include Protestant and Orthodox churches—for example Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is a member of the National Council of Churches. [168]
The origin of Conservative Friends is found in early 19th-century schisms, first with liberal, "Hicksite" Friends and then with evangelical-oriented "Gurneyite" Friends. The Conservative Friends is derived from the Orthodox Friends in the former schism, and in the latter schism, what are now called Conservative Friends were the " Wilburite ...