Iowa History Project

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The Quakers of Iowa

By

Louis Thomas Jones

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Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	5
Author's Preface	7
PART I
Historical Narrative
I. The Rise and Spread of Quakerism	17
II. The Quakers in the American Colonies	25
III. Westward Migration	31
IV. The Planting of Quakerism in Iowa	38
V. The Quakers in the Back Counties	48
VI. The Iowa Field in 1850	56
VII. A Decade of Expansion 1850 to 1860	67
VIII. The Formation of the Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends	74
IX. The First Yearly Meeting in Iowa	80
X. A Retrospect of Fifty Years	85
PART II
Iowa Quaker Orthodoxy
I. The Rise of Evangelism in Iowa	95
II. The Pastoral System Among the Iowa Friends	103
III. The Iowa Orthodox Quaker Ministry	109
IV. The General Superintendent	118
V. The Christian Worker's Assembly	124
VI. Modern Quakerism in Iowa	127
Part III
The Minority Bodies of Friends in Iowa
I. The Anti-Slavery Friends in Iowa	133
II. The Hicksite Friends in Iowa	146
III. The Wilbur Friends in Iowa	154
IV. The Conservative Friends in Iowa: The Separation of 1877	163
V. The Conservative Friends in Iowa: The Separation at Salem and Springdale	171
VI. The Norwegian Friends in Iowa	175
VII. Quaker Conservatism and Its Future in Iowa	181
Part IV
Benevolent and Educational Enterprises
I. The Iowa Quakers and the Negroes	187
II. The Iowa Quakers and the American Indians	203
III. White's Iowa Manual Labor Institute	215
IV. Missionary Activities of the Iowa Friends	232
V. Educational Work Among the Iowa Friends	240
Part V
Religious and Social Life of the Quakers
I. Religious Beliefs of the Quakers	253
II. The Quaker Meeting	258
III. Quaker Marriages	262
IV. Quaker Manners and Customs	269
V. Quaker Home Life	278
Appendices	283

Appendix A—Table Showing the Numerical Strength of the Iowa Yearly Meeting

Of Friends by 5 Year Periods

Appendix B—Table Showing the Results of Evangelistic Effort for the Decades

1883-1893 and 1902-1912

Appendix C—Rules and Regulations of the Stavanger Boarding School

Appendix D—Quaker Queries

Appendix E—Quaker Marriage Certificate

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