• Quaker and abolitionist leader Levi Coffin (pictured), known as the President of the Underground Railroad, personally helped more than 2,000 slaves escape their masters?
• Japanologist Hugh Borton took up his field after being posted to Japan by a Quaker service organization?

Facts on topics related to Quaker

Quakers

• the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742 between the Anglicans and the Quakers of Philadelphia was caused by their inability to agree on who would supervise the election?

Religious Society of Friends

• Puritan colonist Nicholas Upsall saved the lives of jailed Quaker pioneers Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, was later banished, and then helped found the first Monthly Meeting of the Quakers in America?
• Isaac Crewdson's book A Beacon to the Society of Friends triggered a split in the Quakers which was like a "volcanic explosion"?
• Richard Ingoldesby, Governor of New Jersey, caused the defeat of a bill to raise 200 men for an invasion of Canada in order to remove the Quakers from all public offices in New Jersey?
• botanist Edgar Anderson was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Evolution and an active member of the Religious Society of Friends?
• the Martin Marmon House, built in 1820, is a leading example of Quaker architecture in Ohio?
• the York Imperial apple (pictured) is easily identified by its lop-sided shape and was developed by Quaker Jonathan Jessop?