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Quaker
1937 It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads

1914 Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84

1880 Lucretia Mott, U.S. quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies

1865 Battle of Quaker Road, VA

1833 Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation

1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse

1718 William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer (No cross, no crown), dies

1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania

1672 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in U.S. held, Sandwich, Mass

1661 William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston

1659 Marmaduke Stevenson, Quaker in Boston, hanged

1644 William Penn, English Quaker and founder of PA



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