Post family papers, 1742-1908.

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

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Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activ...

Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-1889

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Amy Post (December 20, 1802 – January 29, 1889) was an activist who was central to several important social causes of the 19th century, including the abolition of slavery and women's rights. Post's upbringing in Quakerism shaped her beliefs in equality of all humans, although she ultimately left the Religious Society of Friends because of her desire to actively support social change efforts that called upon her to collaborate with non-Quakers. A friend of many prominent activists including Frede...

Peirce, Cyrus, d. 1878.

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Post, Joseph, 1803-1888.

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Routh, Martha Winter, 1743-1817

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Martha Routh or Martha Winter (25 June 1743 – 18 July 1817) was a British Quaker minister and writer. Martha Winter was the last child, born in Stourbridge in 1743, to Henry and Jane Winter. She had nine siblings, although only five survived childhood. By the age of 24, she was the head of a Quaker boarding school in Nottingham after starting to teach there when she was seventeen. She was made a minister in 1773 and, after her marriage to Richard Routh in 1776, she devoted herself to Quaker mi...

Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896

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Quaker reformer devoted to social justice causes including the anti-salvery movement, the woman's rights movement, various peace movements, prison reform and aiding Indians. Dugdale was born in Pennsylvania and lived in Ohio and Pennsylvania before moving his family to a farm in Henry County, Iowa in 1862. Dugdale and his wife Ruth joined the Hicksite Friends Meeting at Prairie Grove, Iowa. Ruth and Joseph later moved into Mount Pleasant where the couple continued their social reform activities....

Post, Mary, 1806-1892.

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Mary and Joseph Post were members of the Society of Friends and active in a number of 19th century reform movements including abolition, peace, and women's rights. Joseph, the son of Edmund and Catharine (Willits) Post of Westbury, Long Island, married Mary W. Robbins, the daughter of Willet and Esther (Seaman), in 1828. Joseph's brother, Isaac Post, was also involved in reform; he and his wife, Amy Kirby Post, were prominent in the spiritualist movement in upstate New York. From the...

Greene, Anna, b. 1799.

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Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830

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Elias Hicks was an eminent Quaker minister from Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. He was a farmer, partner in a tannery, and had a knowledge of surveying. Elias Hicks was born on March 19, 1748, a birthright member of Westbury Monthly Meeting, New York, and the son of John and Martha (Smith) Hicks. At thirteen he went to live with his older brother and was apprenticed to a carpenter. During this time, he became increasingly devoted to religious principles. In 1771, he married Jemima Seaman, th...

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940)

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Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

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Johnson, Rowland, 1816-1886.

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Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880

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Lucretia Mott (née Coffin) was born Jan. 3, 1793 in Nantucket, MA. She was a descendent of Peter Folger and Mary Morrell Folger and a cousin of Framer Benjamin Franklin. Mott became a teacher; her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid significantly more than female staff. A well known abolitionist, Mott considered slavery to be evil, a Quaker view. When she moved to Philadelphia, she became Quaker minister. Along with white and black wo...

Ketcham, John, 1782-1865

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Mott, James, 1788-1868

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Abolitionist. From the description of Circular letter of James Mott, 1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454648 American abolitionist and advocate for women's rights. From the description of Autograph note signed : Philadelphia, 1858 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 640128449 ...

Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859

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