Shoemaker, Nathan, 1788-1868
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Elias Hicks Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-044
Abstract
Elias Hicks (1748-1830) was an eminent Quaker minister from Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. In the 1820s, a religious controversy within the Society of Friends which focused on Hicks' ministry led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation of 1827-1828. The collection includes correspondence written and received by Elias Hicks, sermons, surveyor's drawings, family correspondence, and other papers. Also includes the original 1748-1822 manuscript journal of Elias Hicks (in three parts) and the 1828 Ohio...
Dates:
1779 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1779 - 1830
Moses Sheppard Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-137
Abstract
Moses Sheppard (1775-1857) was a Quaker humanitarian and businessman of Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Nathan and Sarah Shoemaker Sheppard, born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After their property was confiscated during the Revolutionary War, the family settled in Maryland. Sheppard never married and devoted most of his life to a number of social reforms, including the treatment of the insane and the colonization movement. As a member of Baltimore Monthly Meeting, he was...
Dates:
1794-1927
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- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Liberia -- History -- Sources 1
- Mental Illness 1
- Quaker philanthropists 1
- Quaker social reformers 1
- Quakers -- Maryland -- Baltimore 1
- Quakers -- Relations with African Americans 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Sermons, American 1
- Slavery 1
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