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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