Quakers in the Dictionary of American Biography

QUAKER BIOGRAPHIES93 and the neighbouring Governments. It urges the importance of a good education, not a cheap one. It recommends that instead of one teacher who boards about in families and looks for a better post, a more substantial equipment be established "on a lasting bottom" with an endowment and managing committee. It ends with nine definite suggestions for the method and scope of instruction, six rules extracted from those used in Philadelphia schools, and five advices for children at home. Benezet's interest in this subject of country Quaker schools appears as early in his life as 1750 (A. C. Myers, Hannah Logan's Courtship , p. 293). Evans, American Bibliography, No. 15739, dates the pamphlet as 1778. In fact all these three are recognized as Benezet's by Evans. But neither Smith nor later Benezet bibliographies that I have seen mention them. Almost identical in wording with large parts of the last mentioned pamphlet is an official Philadelphia Yearly Meeting broadside of 1778 entitled "Some Observations Relating to the Establishment of Schools." Beside the signature of the Yearly Meeting Clerk there appear the signatures of Anthony Benezet and Isaac Zane on behalf of the committee that proposed it. The phraseology is almost certainly that of Benezet, but whether its date is earlier or later than the pamphlet I cannot tell. This is duly cataloged by Smith (i. 762) under "Philadelphia Yearly Meeting." Cf. Evans, No. 15802. The copy that I have consulted is one I came upon in Pemberton Papers, vol. 32, p. 106, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. QUAKERS IN THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY By Anna B. Hewitt As the early volumes of the Dictionary of American Biography (first referred to in this Bulletin in vol. 18 (1929), page 52) were published, the names were noted in the Bulletin of the Quakers whose biographies were included. See Bulletin 18 (1929) : 104 for the names appearing in vols. I and II of the Dictionary; 19 (1930): 41 for vols. Ill and IV; 19: 99 for 94 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION vol. V; 20 (1931): 33 for vol. VI; 20: 94 for vol. VII; 21 (1932) : 36 for vol. VIII. Eight volumes have appeared since the last notes appeared in the Bulletin; the list of Quakers included is herewith brought down to date. Volume IX Kicks, Elias (1748-1830) : Quaker preacher. Hill, Richard (c. 1673-1729) : Philadelphia merchant, legislator, and judge. Hoag, Joseph (1762-1846) : Quaker preacher. Holder, Charles Frederick (1851-1915) : Naturalist and sportsman. Holder, Joseph Bassett (1824-1888) : Naturalist and physician. Holme, Thomas (1624-1695) : Surveyor and map maker. Hopkins, Johns (1795-1873) : Merchant and philanthropist. Hopkins, Stephen (1707-1785) : Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Hopper, Isaac Tatem (1771-1852) : Humanitarian and abolitionist. Hough, Charles Merrill (1858-1927) : Jurist. Howland, Emily (1827-1929) : Educator and reformer. Hubbs, Rebecca (1772-1852) : Quaker preacher. Humphreys, Joshua (1751-1838) : Shipbuilder and naval architect. Hunt, Nathan (1758-1853) : Quaker preacher. Hussey, Obed (1792-1860) : Inventor. Hutchinson, Woods (1862-1930) : Physician and author. Iddings, Joseph Paxon (1857-1920) : Geologist and petrologist. Ivins, William Mills (1851-1915) : Lawyer and reformer. James, Thomas Chalkley (1766-1835): Physician and teacher. James, Thomas Potts (1803-1882) : Botanist. Janney, Oliver Edward (1856-1930) : Physician and philanthropist. Janney, Samuel McPherson (1801-1880) : Author and Quaker minister. Jansen, Reinier ( -1706) : Printer. Volume X Jay, Allen (1831-1910) : Quaker preacher. Jeanes, Anna T. (1822-1907) : Philanthropist. Jenkins, Howard Malcolm (1842-1902) : Editor and historical writer. Johnson, John Butler (1850-1902) : Civil engineer. Jones, John (1729-1791) : Surgeon and author. Jones, Sybil (1808-1873) : Quaker preacher. Julian, George Washington (1817-1899) : Abolitionist leader. Keimer, Samuel (1688-c. 1739) : Printer. Keith, George (c. 1638-1716) : Pounder .of "Christian Quakers"; Anglican missionary. Kinsey, John (1693-1750) : Lawyer, politician, and jurist. Kirkbride, Thomas Story (1809-1883) : Physician. QUAKER BIOGRAPHIES95 Knight, Edward Collings (1813-1892) : Capitalist and inventor. Lacey, John (1755-1814) : Revolutionary soldier and public official. Volume XI Lay, Benjamin (1677-1759) ¦: Quaker reformer. Lea, Henry Charles (1825-1909) : Publisher and historian. Lea, Isaac (1792-1886) : Publisher and malacologist. Leeds, Daniel (1652-1720) : Surveyor and almanac maker. Leeds, John (1705-1790) : Mathematician and astronomer. Letchworth, William Pryor (1823-1910) : Philanthropist. Lewis...