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83003584 [1] Added to NRHP. December 13, 1983. The Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), located north of the rural village of Holder in McLean County, Illinois. It was once the site of a now-defunct village called Benjaminville, founded in 1856 after ...
The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends (1973), emphasis on social structure and family life. Frost, J. William. "The Origins of the Quaker Crusade against Slavery: A Review of Recent Literature," Quaker History 67 (1978): 42–58. JSTOR 41946850. Hamm, Thomas. The Quakers in America.
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England as a form of Protestantism in the 17th century, and has spread throughout North America, Central America, Africa, and Australia. Some Quakers originally came to North America to spread their beliefs to the British colonists there, while others came to ...
Friends meeting house. A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held. Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Steeples, spires, and ornamentation are usually avoided. [citation needed] When Quakers speak of a ...
Pages in category "Quaker meeting houses in Illinois" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The lengthy recall list includes Quaker Big Chewy Bars Chocolate Chip, Quaker Chewy Bars Variety Pack, Quaker Chewy Dipps Variety Pack, Quaker Puffed Granola Apple Cinnamon Cereal, and dozens of ...
The Quaker Oats Company ( / ˈkweɪkər oʊts / ), known as Quaker, is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois. As Quaker Mill Company, the company was founded in 1877 in Ravenna, Ohio. In 1881, Henry Crowell bought the company and launched a national advertising campaign for Quaker Oats. In 1911, the company acquired the Great ...
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