Friends Historical Library collection of memorials

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Friends Historical Library collection of memorials

1760 - 1920

http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/sfhl-mss-056

Memorials are brief biographical essays which testify to the spiritual values of a Quaker's life. Early meetings only wrote memorials for ministers, but today some meetings continue the practice to memorialize all deceased members. In the 19th century, in particular, some Yearly Meetings periodically published compilations of memorials. This collection consists of miscellaneous memorials, from various meetings and regarding various Friends, collected by the Friends Historical Library over time.

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Foulke, Joseph, 1786-1863

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Joseph Foulke was a prominent Quaker minister from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Hugh Foulke and Anna Robert Foulke, and great-grandson of Edward Foulke (1651-1741) and Eleanor Hugh Foulke (-1733). He had learned the trade of a wheel-wright but his inclinations drew him to the profession of teaching. For six years following 1811, he had charge of the Friends' School at Plymouth, Pennsylvania. Next he taught for one year at Upper Dublin. In 1818 he established at Gwynedd, on h...

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784

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Anthony Benezet, born Antoine Bénézet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784), was a French-American abolitionist and educator who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the early American abolitionists, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (after his death it was revived as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery); the first public school for girls in North America; and t...