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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 Pennsylvania |
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