Download or read book The Quakers of Iowa written by Louis Thomas Jones and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quakers of Iowa written by Louis Thomas Jones and published by . This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quakers of Iowa written by Jones Thomas and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Quakers of Iowa written by Jones Louis Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quakers of Iowa written by Louis Thomas Jones and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TThe Legacy They Gave to Uss written by Matilda Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV of the Legacy Series is the last volume about Norwegian and English Quakers in O'Brien County, Iowa, from 1920 to -2014. These are true stories about Iowa Quakers response to conscription. Quakers "Let their lives speak".
Download or read book The Legacy They Gave to Us Early Iowa Norwegian Quakers written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of this Legacy Series, Early Iowa Norwegian Quakers--Threads of Testimony, is the story of Norway's Strand Parish Quakers immigration to Iowa because of persecution from the local priest of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. Eventually, many in the extended families of Oleson, Knudsen, Towe, Strand, Tjossem, Heggem, Meltveit, Ravnås, Vik, Thompson and Norland found religious freedom and economic opportunities in Iowa. Volume II is a collection of personal stories of these Norwegian Quakers who began leaving Norway in 1853 on sailing vessels from the port of Stavanger. They traveled in 'steerage'--an almost inhumane experience because of crowding, the deplorable sanitary conditions and the paucity of arrangements for storing, preparation and cooking the food brought on board for a journey of unknown duration. The Norwegian capacity for perseverance under difficult conditions was severely tested. The earliest Norwegian Quakers stopped in southeastern Iowa where they were involved in the Underground Railroad. But for most of the Norwegians, their destination was Marshall and Benton Counties--in central Iowa--where acres of prairie was unbroken and cheap land was available not far from the economic hubs of Marshalltown and Cedar Rapids. There was a Friends Meeting in LeGrand, a small town on the railroad between the two metropolises. They established Stavanger, the only Norwegian -speaking Friends Meeting in the United States. The threads of testimony tell the stories of their challenges driven by Quaker theology, practice and foibles--opportunities to 'let their lives speak'Volume II includes the account of the 1877-1883 Separation among Iowa's Quakers told through the stories of Darius Cook (Iowa Yearly Meeting Oskaloosa) and of Ella Bowles Newlin (Iowa Yearly Meeting Conservative). Volume II is enriched by access to original documents, out of print books and genealogy which the author has brought together to tell a more complete story of Iowa's Quakers.
Download or read book Hope for a Better World written by James Walton Blackburn and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how I grew up in a Wilburite Quaker family in Ohio and attended Scattergood Friends School in Iowa. I give an overview of Quakers who originated as the The Religious Society of Friends in seventeenth-century England. I tell about Wilburite Friends, which are much different from most Quakers. Their practices are close to early English Friends. I tell how the Blackburn Family lived out Quaker beliefs. I tell about Scattergood Friends School in Iowa. I present my personal faith. An inspiration for this book is A Quaker Book of Wisdom "" Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense by Robert Lawrence Smith. He states, "It is my ever-growing conviction that the compassionate Quaker message badly needs to be heard in today's complex, materialistic, often unjust, and discriminatory society. Every day brings new public debate over issues Quakers have always addressed: war and peace, social justice, education, health care, poverty, business ethics, public service, the use of world resources" (Smith, xii""xiii).
Download or read book History of Quaker Divide written by Darius B. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of San Jose Quakers West Coast Friends written by Thomas M. King and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of San Jose Quakers, West Coast Friends West Coast Quakers (1846-1930s)
Download or read book The Legacy They Gave to Us written by Commentary Press of Wyomimg and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume III of the Legacy Series about Norwegian Quakers who immigrated to Iowa, first to Marshall County in 1860, then to O'Brien County in 1883. These are true stories about Quakers who settled in Southern O'Brien County near Paullina (Iowa) and established the Paullina Friends Meeting. The extended family of Tjossem, Towe, Thompson, Strand, Meltvedt were joined by Hendersons from Canada and Rockwells from New York State.
Download or read book The Discipline of the Society of Friends of Iowa Yearly Meeting written by Society of Friends. Iowa Yearly Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War written by Jacquelyn S. Nelson and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, first arrived in antebellum Indiana, they could not have envisioned the struggle which would engulf the nation when the American Civil War began in 1861. Juxtaposed with its stand against slavery a second tenet of the Society's creed--adherence to peace--also challenged the unity of Friends when the dreaded conflict erupted. Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War chronicles for the first time the military activities of Indiana Quakers during America's bloodiest war and explores the motivation behind the abandonment, at least temporarily, of their long-standing testimony against war.
Download or read book Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends Book of Discipline written by Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iowa History Reader written by Marvin Bergman and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978 historian Joseph Wall wrote that Iowa was “still seeking to assert its own identity. . . . It has no real center where the elite of either power, wealth, or culture may congregate. Iowa, in short, is middle America.” In this collection of well-written and accessible essays, originally published in 1996, seventeen of the Hawkeye State’s most accomplished historians reflect upon the dramatic and not-so-dramatic shifts in the middle land’s history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Marvin Bergman has drawn upon his years of editing the Annals of Iowa to gather contributors who cross disciplines, model the craft of writing a historical essay, cover more than one significant topic, and above all interpret history rather than recite it. In his preface to this new printing, he calls attention to publications that begin to fill the gaps noted in the 1996 edition. Rather than survey the basic facts, the essayists engage readers in the actual making of Iowa’s history by trying to understand the meaning of its past. By providing comprehensive accounts of topics in Iowa history that embrace the broader historiographical issues in American history, such as the nature of Progressivism and Populism, the debate over whether women’s expanded roles in wartime carried over to postwar periods, and the place of quantification in history, the essayists contribute substantially to debates at the national level at the same time that they interpret Iowa’s distinctive culture.
Download or read book The Quakers in America written by Thomas D. Hamm and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect. Known best for their long-standing commitment to social activism, pacifism, fair treatment for Native Americans, and equality for women, the Quakers have influenced American thought and society far out of proportion to their relatively small numbers. Whether in the foreign policy arena (the American Friends Service Committee), in education (the Friends schools), or in the arts (prominent Quakers profiled in this book include James Turrell, Bonnie Raitt, and James Michener), Quakers have left a lasting imprint on American life. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends; an introduction to its beliefs and practices; and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings that illuminate basic Quaker concepts and theology and reflect the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. Yet the book also examines commonalities among American Friends that demonstrate a fundamental unity within the religion: their commitments to worship, the ministry of all believers, decision making based on seeking spiritual consensus rather than voting, a simple lifestyle, and education. Thomas Hamm shows that Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate a number of central questions: Is Quakerism necessarily Christian? Where should religious authority reside? Is the self sacred? How does one transmit faith to children? How do gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior? Hamm's analysis of these debates reveals a vital religion that prizes both unity and diversity.
Download or read book Occasional Bulletin of the Iowa Masonic Library written by Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
