by Hannah Lutz | Apr 5, 2022 | Events, Faith & Practice, Missions, Peace, Worship, Youth
by Hannah Lutz | Mar 17, 2022 | Genealogy, History
Campus Friends began meeting in 1948 and was born out of a desire among Quaker students and staff at Wilmington College to participate in an unprogrammed worship group. At that time, there were no unprogrammed meetings in Wilmington Yearly Meeting, and many of these...
by Hannah Lutz | Mar 7, 2022 | Genealogy, History
Ada Chapel began in 1888 as a mission in East Wilmington. At that time, East Wilmington was the impoverished side of town, and Quaker school-teacher Lizzie Harvey was concerned about the well-being of her students who lived there. She began holding gospel meetings in...
by Hannah Lutz | Feb 9, 2022 | Genealogy, History
One of the few remaining Quaker settler brick houses in Clinton County is the 1830 Eli Harvey house on Lebanon Road in the Springfield Meeting community, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Eli Harvey (1803-1872) was a very small child when he...
by Hannah Lutz | Feb 9, 2022 | Genealogy, History
Quakers: That of God in Everyone Did you know that Cincinnati Friends Meeting made a documentary about Quakers in 2015? Or that our very own Donne Hayden wrote the film? This documentary tells the stories of lesser-known Friends from southwest Ohio whose faiths led...