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32 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Isaac Hadwen (1687-1737) lived at Side, near Sedbergh, in N. W. Yorkshire . He married Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah Moore, of Eldroth, N. W. Yorks (see Camb. Journal of George Fox and Tercentenary Supplement ) in 1714. Isaac Hadwen paid another visit to America, on business , in 1737. "He landed at Hampton in Virginia about the 24th of 3d Month and having completed his business was about to return, apparently in good health, when the most High saw it right in a few days to end his labours by attack of fever, his peaceful life ending [at Chester, Delaware] the 29th of 6 Month, 1737." There were later Isaac Hadwens, well-known Friends.—See Journal of F. H. S. (London), vols. IX, X, XXII. ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS In December, at the Anderson Galleries, was held an educational exhibition of the work of Joseph Pennell and other artists. The Friends' Intelligencer , 1 mo. 2, 1926, states that Joseph Pennell was born 7 mo. 4, 1860, in Philadelphia, a birthright member of Orange Street Friends' Meeting. His ancestor, Sir Robert Pennell, came over with William Penn, on his second voyage. The Philadelphia Public Ledger has recently had a long article on the work of Joseph Pennell, and his book, Adventures of an Illustrator. According to Arthur E. Morgan, President of Antioch College, Ohio, the Quakers were the originators of the one price store. "Before the Quakers started the practice of the one price, merchants in America did as sellers do today in India—they bargained and haggled over prices."— Friends' Intelligencer, 11 mo. 28, 1925. On the Quaker one-price policy see the story of de Saussure ?. 38, below. The American Friend, 10 mo. 15, 1925, gives a sketch of the life of William Hiatt Coffin (with portrait). He was born in Indiana and died in California. Thus his life epitomizes the Quaker migration from the middle west to the Pacific coast. Yet it was only a segment of a longer family history reaching back through North Carolina to Nantucket Island. He moved to Kansas in 1855 as a part of the "free-soil" migration that ultimately won Kansas for freedom. His experiences in upholding the Quaker peace testimony in the midst of border warfare are worthy items in the history of Friends. (See Jones, Later Periods of Quakerism, 2:845 ff.). William H. Coffin was born 9 mo. 26, 1825, and died 9 mo. 25, 1925, thus completing one hundred years of life on the evening of his death. ITEMS FROM PERIODICALS33 Paul J. Furnas, in an article entitled "A Quaker Laboratory," in The American Friend for 10 mo. 29, 1925, tells of the opening of the new home of Woolman School, at Wyncote. Wyncote was the estate of Mary W. Lippincott. She presented it, together with $10,000., as the beginning of an endowment fund for the school. The American Friend, 11 mo. 5, 1925, states that the School Board of Richmond, Indiana, has named a school near the old Whitewater Friends' Meeting, for the late Timothy Nicholsen. Other City schools bearing names of Friends, are the William Baxter and Joseph Moore grade schools, and two Junior High Schools, the William Worth Dennis and the Julia Test. L. Hollingsworth Wood has an interesting sketch of Quakers in Westchester County New York, in The American Friend, 11 mo. 5, 1925. In 1684 there was a meeting at Westchester. Other meetings were established later in Chappaqua, Amawalk, Armonk, Peach Lake, and a number of other centers. On the 31st of 10 mo., 1925,' Friends of both branches met at Chappaqua for Quarterly Meeting and a Conference. The Friend (London), 10 mo. 23, 1925, and The American Friend, 11 mo. 12, 1925, give a short account of the new Rendei Harris Library at Selly Oak, England. Dr. Harris is quoted as saying that his idea of heaven was "a cross between the British Museum and a second-hand book-store." According to The Friend, (London), 10 mo. 2, 1925, a bronze tablet has been placed over the door of Dooms-Dole (Doomsdale) prison, Launceston Castle, where George Fox was imprisoned for eight months; this as a...