Amended articles of incorporation and by-laws of the Kansas Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1900

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Amended articles of incorporation and by-laws of the Kansas Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends 1900

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Articles of Incorporation and By-laws of the Kansas Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, as adopted 1900 (three typescripts, with penned corrections and additions).

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University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

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Friends University (Wichita, Kan.)

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Kansas Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends

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Friends, also called Quakers, had their origin as a Christian movement in seventeenth-century England. In the United States, the establishment of Quaker colonies was a common practice in the nation's westward movement of the middle-to-late 1800s. Yearly meetings of the Friends were held in various states. The first General Conference of the Yearly Meetings was held at Richmond, Indiana in 1887. In 1897, a uniform book of discipline and a closer union of the Yearly Meetings was instituted. The re...