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After the founding of Iowa Yearly Meeting, Quaker settlement in
Iowa continued steadily with new meetings being set up at appropriate
places to accommodate the incoming Friends. The Homestead Act of
1862 affected the settlement of the newer portions of the state and also
encouraged settlers to investigate lands opening up farther west and
north. The original five Quarterly Meetings of Iowa Yearly Meeting
(Salem, Pleasant Plain, Red Cedar, Bangor, and Ackworth) increased
to eighteen by 1895. They are listed here according to the order of
their founding:
Salem, 1847, established by Indiana Yearly Meeting
Pleasant Plain, 1852,
Red Cedar (Springdale,) 1858 "
Bangor, 1858, established "
Ackworth, 1860, established by Indiana Yearly Meeting
Oskaloosa, 1863, established by Iowa Yearly Meeting
Winneshiek, 1863,
Bear Creek, 1865,
Honey Creek, 1865, "
Lynn Grove, 1867,
Minneapolis, 1876,
Greenville, 1882,
Mount Vernon, 1884, "
Des Moines, 1890,
Scranton, 1895,
(In addition to these Quarterly Meetings, there were, by this time,
two more in Nebraska (Spring Bank and Hiawatha) and one in Cali-fornia
(Pasadena). California Yearly Meeting was founded in 1895 and
Nebraska Yearly Meeting in 1908.)
Before the founding of Iowa Yearly Meeting, Salem Quarterly
Meeting had joined the "Indiana Yearly Meeting of Anti-slavery
Friends." This group had re-united with the larger body of Indiana
Yearly Meeting in 1856, restoring the traditional united stand of
Friends against slavery well before the founding of Iowa Yearly Meet-ing.
In 1866 the total Yearly Meeting membership was 7,652. In 1884
it was 9,577. In 1892 the peak of membership was 12,282, but at that
time neither Oregon nor California Yearly Meetings had been organized
and a large number of Friends in both of these states still held member-ship
in Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends. Therefore when these three
Yearly Meetings were set off from Iowa Yearly Meeting in 1893, 1895,
and 1908 respectively, there was a considerable drop in membership of
the sponsoring Yearly Meeting. A total of 3800 members were trans-ferred
from Iowa Yearly Meeting in the founding of these three Yearly
Meetings, to Oregon 1166, to California 1679, and to Nebraska 955.
Object Description
| Title | William Penn College: A Product and a Producer |
| Creator | S. Arthur Watson |
| Date | 1971 |
| Language | English |
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| Title | William Penn College: A Product and a Producer, page 34 |
| Creator | S. Arthur Watson |
| Date | 1971 |
| Identifier | William-Penn-College-product-and-producer - 050_page 34 |
| Language | English |
| Rights | http://www.wmpenn.edu/Library/about.html |
| Transcription | After the founding of Iowa Yearly Meeting, Quaker settlement in Iowa continued steadily with new meetings being set up at appropriate places to accommodate the incoming Friends. The Homestead Act of 1862 affected the settlement of the newer portions of the state and also encouraged settlers to investigate lands opening up farther west and north. The original five Quarterly Meetings of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Salem, Pleasant Plain, Red Cedar, Bangor, and Ackworth) increased to eighteen by 1895. They are listed here according to the order of their founding: Salem, 1847, established by Indiana Yearly Meeting Pleasant Plain, 1852, Red Cedar (Springdale,) 1858 " Bangor, 1858, established " Ackworth, 1860, established by Indiana Yearly Meeting Oskaloosa, 1863, established by Iowa Yearly Meeting Winneshiek, 1863, Bear Creek, 1865, Honey Creek, 1865, " Lynn Grove, 1867, Minneapolis, 1876, Greenville, 1882, Mount Vernon, 1884, " Des Moines, 1890, Scranton, 1895, (In addition to these Quarterly Meetings, there were, by this time, two more in Nebraska (Spring Bank and Hiawatha) and one in Cali-fornia (Pasadena). California Yearly Meeting was founded in 1895 and Nebraska Yearly Meeting in 1908.) Before the founding of Iowa Yearly Meeting, Salem Quarterly Meeting had joined the "Indiana Yearly Meeting of Anti-slavery Friends." This group had re-united with the larger body of Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1856, restoring the traditional united stand of Friends against slavery well before the founding of Iowa Yearly Meet-ing. In 1866 the total Yearly Meeting membership was 7,652. In 1884 it was 9,577. In 1892 the peak of membership was 12,282, but at that time neither Oregon nor California Yearly Meetings had been organized and a large number of Friends in both of these states still held member-ship in Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends. Therefore when these three Yearly Meetings were set off from Iowa Yearly Meeting in 1893, 1895, and 1908 respectively, there was a considerable drop in membership of the sponsoring Yearly Meeting. A total of 3800 members were trans-ferred from Iowa Yearly Meeting in the founding of these three Yearly Meetings, to Oregon 1166, to California 1679, and to Nebraska 955. |
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