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COD: heart trouble
From Thomas Hamm, archivist at Earlham College:
Allen Jay was one of the most influential Quakers in nineteenth-century America. When he died in 1910, the Quaker historian and philosopher Rufus M. Jones of Haverford College said that he was "the most deeply loved Friend of our generation."
Jay was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1831. He took some pride in recounting how as an infant, he had sat on the lap of his great-great-grandfather, Paul Macy (1740-1832). The Jay family moved to Indiana in 1850. Allen attended Friends Boarding School, now Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana, in 1851-1852. In 1854 he married Martha Sleeper of Farmers Institute, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, where they lived and he farmed and taught school until 1868.
Allen Jay was recorded a Quaker minister in 1864, and soon became known for his effective preaching. His talent was all the more impressive in view of the fact that he was born with a defective palate, giving him a speech "like nothing ever heard before," as one Friend recalled it. (As an adult he remedied the situation by having a wooden palate carved, that he inserted into his mouth.)
In 1868 he accepted a position in North Carolina with the Baltimore Association of Friends. The association helped rebuild North Carolina Quakerism in the aftermath of the Civil War. His ministry was so effective that a section of High Point, North Carolina, is still referred to as "Allen Jay."
Jay traveled in Europe as a Quaker minister in 1875-1876, then spent four years as treasurer of the Friends School in Providence, Rhode Island (now Moses Brown School). In 1881 he returned to Earlham College as an administrator. Until his death in 1910, he would combine service to Earlham with wide travel as a Quaker minister. He served as the superintendent of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends in the 1890s. He had particular talents as a fundraiser, and most Quaker colleges benefited from his ability to bring in donations.
Jay lived at a time when American Quakerism was being transformed by outside influences. Jay was almost unique in trying to find a middle way that accepted radical changes, like revivalism, while at the same time preserving Quaker distinctiveness and openness to modern science and scholarship.
Shortly before his death, Jay finished an autobiography. It has recently been republished by Friends United Press.
COD: heart trouble
From Thomas Hamm, archivist at Earlham College:
Allen Jay was one of the most influential Quakers in nineteenth-century America. When he died in 1910, the Quaker historian and philosopher Rufus M. Jones of Haverford College said that he was "the most deeply loved Friend of our generation."
Jay was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1831. He took some pride in recounting how as an infant, he had sat on the lap of his great-great-grandfather, Paul Macy (1740-1832). The Jay family moved to Indiana in 1850. Allen attended Friends Boarding School, now Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana, in 1851-1852. In 1854 he married Martha Sleeper of Farmers Institute, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, where they lived and he farmed and taught school until 1868.
Allen Jay was recorded a Quaker minister in 1864, and soon became known for his effective preaching. His talent was all the more impressive in view of the fact that he was born with a defective palate, giving him a speech "like nothing ever heard before," as one Friend recalled it. (As an adult he remedied the situation by having a wooden palate carved, that he inserted into his mouth.)
In 1868 he accepted a position in North Carolina with the Baltimore Association of Friends. The association helped rebuild North Carolina Quakerism in the aftermath of the Civil War. His ministry was so effective that a section of High Point, North Carolina, is still referred to as "Allen Jay."
Jay traveled in Europe as a Quaker minister in 1875-1876, then spent four years as treasurer of the Friends School in Providence, Rhode Island (now Moses Brown School). In 1881 he returned to Earlham College as an administrator. Until his death in 1910, he would combine service to Earlham with wide travel as a Quaker minister. He served as the superintendent of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends in the 1890s. He had particular talents as a fundraiser, and most Quaker colleges benefited from his ability to bring in donations.
Jay lived at a time when American Quakerism was being transformed by outside influences. Jay was almost unique in trying to find a middle way that accepted radical changes, like revivalism, while at the same time preserving Quaker distinctiveness and openness to modern science and scholarship.
Shortly before his death, Jay finished an autobiography. It has recently been republished by Friends United Press.
aged 78y6m
COD: heart trouble
From Thomas Hamm, archivist at Earlham College:
Allen Jay was one of the most influential Quakers in nineteenth-century America. When he died in 1910, the Quaker historian and philosopher Rufus M. Jones of Haverford College said that he was "the most deeply loved Friend of our generation."
Jay was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1831. He took some pride in recounting how as an infant, he had sat on the lap of his great-great-grandfather, Paul Macy (1740-1832). The Jay family moved to Indiana in 1850. Allen attended Friends Boarding School, now Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana, in 1851-1852. In 1854 he married Martha Sleeper of Farmers Institute, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, where they lived and he farmed and taught school until 1868.
Allen Jay was recorded a Quaker minister in 1864, and soon became known for his effective preaching. His talent was all the more impressive in view of the fact that he was born with a defective palate, giving him a speech "like nothing ever heard before," as one Friend recalled it. (As an adult he remedied the situation by having a wooden palate carved, that he inserted into his mouth.)
In 1868 he accepted a position in North Carolina with the Baltimore Association of Friends. The association helped rebuild North Carolina Quakerism in the aftermath of the Civil War. His ministry was so effective that a section of High Point, North Carolina, is still referred to as "Allen Jay."
Jay traveled in Europe as a Quaker minister in 1875-1876, then spent four years as treasurer of the Friends School in Providence, Rhode Island (now Moses Brown School). In 1881 he returned to Earlham College as an administrator. Until his death in 1910, he would combine service to Earlham with wide travel as a Quaker minister. He served as the superintendent of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends in the 1890s. He had particular talents as a fundraiser, and most Quaker colleges benefited from his ability to bring in donations.
Jay lived at a time when American Quakerism was being transformed by outside influences. Jay was almost unique in trying to find a middle way that accepted radical changes, like revivalism, while at the same time preserving Quaker distinctiveness and openness to modern science and scholarship.
Shortly before his death, Jay finished an autobiography. It has recently been republished by Friends United Press.
COD: heart trouble
From Thomas Hamm, archivist at Earlham College:
Allen Jay was one of the most influential Quakers in nineteenth-century America. When he died in 1910, the Quaker historian and philosopher Rufus M. Jones of Haverford College said that he was "the most deeply loved Friend of our generation."
Jay was born in Miami County, Ohio, in 1831. He took some pride in recounting how as an infant, he had sat on the lap of his great-great-grandfather, Paul Macy (1740-1832). The Jay family moved to Indiana in 1850. Allen attended Friends Boarding School, now Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana, in 1851-1852. In 1854 he married Martha Sleeper of Farmers Institute, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, where they lived and he farmed and taught school until 1868.
Allen Jay was recorded a Quaker minister in 1864, and soon became known for his effective preaching. His talent was all the more impressive in view of the fact that he was born with a defective palate, giving him a speech "like nothing ever heard before," as one Friend recalled it. (As an adult he remedied the situation by having a wooden palate carved, that he inserted into his mouth.)
In 1868 he accepted a position in North Carolina with the Baltimore Association of Friends. The association helped rebuild North Carolina Quakerism in the aftermath of the Civil War. His ministry was so effective that a section of High Point, North Carolina, is still referred to as "Allen Jay."
Jay traveled in Europe as a Quaker minister in 1875-1876, then spent four years as treasurer of the Friends School in Providence, Rhode Island (now Moses Brown School). In 1881 he returned to Earlham College as an administrator. Until his death in 1910, he would combine service to Earlham with wide travel as a Quaker minister. He served as the superintendent of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends in the 1890s. He had particular talents as a fundraiser, and most Quaker colleges benefited from his ability to bring in donations.
Jay lived at a time when American Quakerism was being transformed by outside influences. Jay was almost unique in trying to find a middle way that accepted radical changes, like revivalism, while at the same time preserving Quaker distinctiveness and openness to modern science and scholarship.
Shortly before his death, Jay finished an autobiography. It has recently been republished by Friends United Press.
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