Quaker Necrology

QUAKER NECROLOGY.49 QUAKER NECROLOGY. Bailey, Hannah J., 1839-1923. An active member of New England Yearly Meeting, and a liberal supporter of its various enterprises. Superintendent since 1890 of the Department of World Peace and Arbitration of the W. C. T. U., and closely associated with Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe, Frances Willard, and other notable reform leaders. Biographical sketches and portrait in American Friend, 11 mo. 22, 1923, p. 924. Garrett, John B. (1836-1924). Sometime President of the Girard Trust Company, and a Vice President of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. A minister of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and a leader in many religious and philanthropic activities, especially those for the Freedmen, the American Indians, and Peace. One of the original Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, and for many years a member of the Westtown School Committee. For nearly forty-three years (1872-1914) a member, and for many years an officer, of the Board of Managers of Haverford College, and during the year 1890-1891 President pro tempore of the College.—The Friend (Philadelphia ), 2 mo. 28, 1924, p. 418. Haines, Zebedee, 1843-1923. Trained at Westtown School and Haverford College, he taught in several Friends' schools, and was for some years principal of Friends' Select School, Philadelphia. His ministry was of the ancient, Friendly, prophetic type, at its best. Biographical sketch in The Friend (Philadelphia), 1 mo. 24, 1924, p. 350. Meredith, Mary Moon (1845-1924). An evangelistic minister, who took an active part in the Great Revival movement, and caused much comment by non-Friends concerning the propriety of allowing women in the ministry. —American Friend, 1 mo. 31, 1924, p. 92. See also Mary O. iT. Wellman, Over Half a Century in the Christian Ministry. Pp. 8, paper c. 1920. Tuttle, Emeline. (1840-1923). Widow of Asa C. Tuttle, died at Alexandria, Lousiana, 10 mo. 31, 1923. She and her husband did one of the most outstanding pieces of work in the history of Friends' missions through their influence on the Modoc Indians who were brought to Oklahoma as prisoners just after the terrible Modoc War in Oregon. Her manuscript memoirs of this work are in the Haverford College Library.—For obituary notice see American Friend, 11 mo. 22, 1923, p. 932. ...