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From: "Dan Treadway" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Portland Quaker Records
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 09:35:00 -0500
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Craig,

You don't give us much to go on when you omit dates.

Tom Hill's list of Quaker meetings does not include any meeting
in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

After telling the story of one woman Friend who lost her husband
on the Oregon trail and continued on with her children, Errol T.
Elliott, in his _Quakers on the American Frontier_ states that
"The main stream of Friends came later, generally by the
railroad, completed in 1869..." In fact, there were few enough
Quakers in Oregon that they remained part of Iowa Yearly Meeting
(FUM) until 1893, when Oregon Yearly Meeting (now know as
Northwest Yearly Meeting) was founded.

Several Quakers ministers held evangelical meetings in Oregon.
William Hobson was perhaps the most important of these; he sold
his land in Iowa in 1876 and settled in Yamhill County. It seems
that revivals added as many and perhaps more members as removals,
throughout the last quarter of the 19th century.

Given that the Niners came to Oregon from an area that did not
have an established Quaker presence, and that revival played such
an important part in the growth of Quakerism in Oregon, it seems
probable to me that they became Quakers after they moved to
Oregon.

Keep in mind, though, that I am just guessing. Perhaps the
records at George Fox College in Newburg will contain the facts.

---
Dan Treadway
postal: P. O. Box 72, Gilbert IA 50105
email:
web: http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway


----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Kinder" <>

>
> George N. Niner and Adaline Niner came out from Oil City,
Pennsylvania to Portaland,Multnomah, Oregon. George was the son
of Henry Niner)
>


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