• scientist and philanthropist William Allen (Quaker minister) (1821–1898), American Quaker minister, also active in Canada William Allen (philanthropist) (1790–1856)...
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    improvement in early 19th-century England. Allen was born in 1770, the eldest son in the Quaker family of Job Allen (1734–1800), a silk manufacturer, and his...
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    William Allen (April 2, 1821 – May 21, 1898) was an American Quaker minister, known as the only Black Quaker minister in 19th century Canada.[citation...
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  • The Quaker Oats Company (/ˈkweɪkər oʊts/), known as Quaker, is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois. As Quaker Mill Company, the company...
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  • nickname for Pennsylvania, the state founded by William Penn, a man of the Quaker religion. The Pennzoil-Quaker State brands are sold under SOPUS Products...
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    Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members of these movements...
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    Africa. The Quakers, though few in numbers, have been influential in the history of reform. The colony of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn in 1682...
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  • and photographer Mary Hamilton (c. 1800), wife of William Allen (Quaker), after delivering Mary Allen who also died in childbirth Agnes Creyke (1800),...
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    which was formed by William Penn in 1681 as a haven for persecuted Quakers. Mary Fisher and Ann Austin are the first known Quakers to set foot in the New...
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    William Penn (24 October [O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who...
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  • Friends, also known as Quakers, who have a Wikipedia article. The first part consists of individuals known to be or to have been Quakers continually from some...
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    a long association with the Quaker community, being the birthplace of Samuel Hoare Jr and later occupied by William Allen. The abolitionist Thomas Clarkson...
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    Y Z Albright and Wilson, manufacturing chemists Allen & Hanburys, founded in London in 1715 by Quaker Silvanus Bevan and his brother Timothy; grew to...
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    The Quaker Tapestry consists of 77 panels illustrating the history of Quakerism from the 17th century to the present day. The idea of Quaker Anne Wynn-Wilson...
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    The Quaker movement began in England in the 17th Century. Small Quaker groups were planted in various places across Europe during this early period (For...
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    He was the long-term face of American television advertisements for the Quaker Oats Company. He also promoted diabetes education and appeared in related...
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    Ackworth School (category Quaker schools in England)
    agriculture William Allen Miller (1817–1870), chemist John Howard Nodal (1831–1909), journalist and dialectologist Jacob Post (1774–1855), Quaker religious...
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    born on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, West Indies, in a Quaker community. where he was heir to sugar plantations. He was sent to England...
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    George Fox (category Quaker writers)
    the expanding Quaker movement. Despite disdain from some Anglicans and Puritans, he was viewed with respect by the Quaker convert William Penn and the...
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    List of Friends schools (category Quaker schools)
    Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers. Friends schools vary greatly, both in their interpretation of Quaker principles and in how they relate to...
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    Stephen Grellet (category Quaker missionaries)
    Darby, an English Quaker minister who had been in the U.S. since August 1793. Darby made an impression on Grellet and under her and William Savery's influence...
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  • Philadelphia Election riot (category Quakerism in Pennsylvania)
    Party, tensions grew in the city. The Quakers and Anglicans were predominantly led by Isaac Norris II and William Allen, both of whom were well respected...
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    William Weston Young (1776–1847) was a British Quaker entrepreneur, artist, botanist, wreck-raiser, surveyor, potter, and inventor of the firebrick. William...
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  • Silvanus Bevan (category Welsh Quakers)
    who founded the London firm of Allen & Hanburys. Silvanus Bevan was born in 1691 in Swansea, into a prosperous Welsh Quaker family. His father (1661–1725)...
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    The Retreat (category Quakerism in the United Kingdom)
    around the world with mental health issues. Founded by William Tuke, it was originally only for Quakers but gradually became open to everyone. It inspired...
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    Maria Louisa Bustill (category African-American Quakers)
    Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian...
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    (1922–2011), ceramic artist and painter Quaker Meeting House Potter/Allen House Henry Cliffton House William Cronce House "Quakertown". Geographic Names...
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    Mary Dyer (category Quaker ministers)
    executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs. Dyer's birthplace has not been established, but it is known that she was married in London in 1633 to William Dyer...
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    Sturge was born in Bristol into a Quaker family. His father, William was a land surveyor and his mother was Charlotte Allen. Five of his sisters campaigned...
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    Quisp (category Quaker Oats Company cereals)
    from the Quaker Oats Company. It was introduced in 1965 and continued as a mass-market grocery item until the late 1970s. Subsequently, the Quaker Oats Company...
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