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Friends William Henry and Margaret Briggs Farquhar1 GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM FRIENDS WILLIAM HENRY AND MARGARET BRIGGS FARQUHAR1 1812 Margaret Briggs was born, a daughter of Friend Isaac Briggs, surveyor.2 1. According to an email from Pat Andersen <[email protected]> of Maryland’s Montgomery County Historical Association, “Yes William H. Farquhar was a Quaker. [b. June 14, 1813, d. Feb 17, 1887, buried at Friends Meeting House, Sandy Spring.] William Henry Farquhar was also the author of Volume 1 of the Annals of Sandy Spring, covering the period 1863-1883. It covers the history of the Sandy Spring Lyceum Company of which he was historian, and covers their lectures. He was an educator at Fair Hill School. He was also deeply involved in the local agricultural society, and in importing guano as fertilizer to improve overfarmed soil in the county. Also he was a force in the Sandy Spring Mutual Insurance Company. However, there is no mention of Thoreau in his book. It is likely he was interested in the improvement of mankind and found a similar spirit in Thoreau. The Quakers of Sandy Spring were abolitionists, so that is also a possible reason for a visit. But we have no record of his visit to Concord, and we have no photographs or drawings of him. We do have pictures of his home, The Cedars, which is featured in Historic Homes of Montgomery County by R.B. Farquhar (a nephew).” 2. “I have appointed Isaac Briggs of Maryland, surveyor of the lands south of the Tennessee. He is a Quaker, a sound republican, and of a pure and unspotted character. In point of science, in astronomy, geometry and mathematics, he stands in a line with Mr. Ellicott, and second to no man in the United States. He set out yesterday for his destination, and I recommend him to your particular patronage.” — President Thomas Jefferson. HDT WHAT? INDEX MARGARET BRIGGS FARQUHAR WILLIAM HENRY FARQUHAR GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM 1813 June 14, Monday: William Henry Farquhar was born in York, Pennsylvania. This family was from Scotland. Friend Amos Farquhar, the father, a cotton manufacturer who had turned to farming and teaching school, had been born in 1768 as a great-grandson of Allen Amos Farquhar, the original immigrant of 1721, and his marriage with Friend Mary Elgar Farquhar had begun in 1795. William had a brother Charles Farquhar, Sr. who would become a physician in Alexandria, Virginia, and a brother Benjamin Hallowell Farquhar, so named in honor of a Quaker educator in Alexandria, who would get married with Mary W. Kirk. The 1st Treaty of Reichenbach was signed between Great Britain and Prussia (this called for Britain to pay a substantial subsidy to maintain the Prussian army, in return for the Principality of Hildesheim being ceded to Hanover). Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 2nd day Our Meeting opened this morng under a very solemn covering. Short testimonies from Abel Thomas Henry Hull & Enoch Dorland - Much feeling was excited at the reading of the Epistles especially those from London. — Wm Rotch Junr in a weighty feeling manner proposed the attention of the Meeting to the distresses of the people in the eastern country on acct of provision, which was refer’d for future consideration. — 2nd Afternoon - The state of society as represented In the Answer to the Queries was gone into & many feeling & weighty remarks were made by H Hull & E Dorland & others. — The Accounts from the several Quarterly Meetings gave information of six appelants[?] two of whom appear’d this Afternoon & committees appointed to hear the parties. — Wm Almy opened a concern that the Meeting should present a petition to the general government which took much hold of the Meeting but from the advanced state of it was refer’d to a future sitting - - the meeting adjourned to 3 OClock tomorrow Afternoon. — 1816 Friends erected a meetinghouse at Sandy Spring, Maryland, out of brick they fired at the site. They created what at the time was the largest religious structure in this Montgomery County near the District of Columbia. RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS 2 Copyright 2013 Austin Meredith HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM HENRY FARQUHAR MARGARET BRIGGS FARQUHAR GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM 1825 The Farquhar family of York, Pennsylvania relocated to the town of Sandy Spring just north of the District of Columbia and southwest of Baltimore, while Friend William Henry Farquhar was eleven, so that the father, Friend Amos Farquhar, could teach at the Fair Hill School across the road from “Olney House.” (Son Charles Farquhar, Sr. had been teaching at this school from 1821 to 1823, before beginning to teach at Friend Benjamin Hallowell’s School in Alexandria, Virginia. Now William would receive the beginnings of his education at this Fair Hill School.) “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project 3 HDT WHAT? INDEX MARGARET BRIGGS FARQUHAR WILLIAM HENRY FARQUHAR GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM 1826 The earliest of Worcester County’s town lyceums were formed, largely as the result of the efforts of Josiah Holbrook. Within four years there would be 78 in the state of Massachusetts. Charles Farquhar, Sr. matriculated at the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was presumably therefore no longer teaching at Brimstone Academy on Washington Street in Alexandria, Virginia when his little brother Friend William Henry Farquhar completed the primary education at the Fair Hill School in Sandy Spring and moved up to the school in Alexandria (another graduate of the famous “Brimstone Castle” was Robert E. Lee, and eventually its headmaster, Friend Benjamin Hallowell, would become the 1st president of the University of Maryland). At first William was supposing that he would study for the law but weak eyesight would interfere and he would turn, like his father, to farming and teaching, and would eventually become the principal of the Fair Hill School, as well as Montgomery County’s surveyor, its school 4 Copyright 2013 Austin Meredith HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM HENRY FARQUHAR MARGARET BRIGGS FARQUHAR GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM commissioner, one of its civil engineers, and the head of the town’s lyceum. Friend Benjamin His “Castle” “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project 5 HDT WHAT? INDEX MARGARET BRIGGS FARQUHAR WILLIAM HENRY FARQUHAR GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM 1832 On the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel, there was an outbreak of the Asian cholera. James Fenimore Cooper, in Paris with his family when the scourge hit that metropolis, commented upon how the gardens of the Tuileries suddenly became deserted. In America, white settlements were not enjoying good health but the Mandan and Hidatsa were being utterly destroyed. Take a look at the discussion by Richard Batman beginning on page 320 of James Pattie’s WEST: THE DREAM AND THE REALITY (in hardcover, titled AMERICAN ECCLESIASTES: THE STORIES OF JAMES PATTIE. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1986) having to do with the new and terrifying plague of cholera sweeping the settled east about the same time. Physicians would reject the contagion theory (with the exception of smallpox), until in the latter part of the 19th Century work on cholera finally would show that it and other such diseases were indeed, like smallpox, contagious. Dr. James Ellsworth De Kay returned from Turkey to New-York, where he began to prescribe port wine as a remedy for cholera and quickly earned for himself a nickname, “Dr. Port.” Saloon customers would be able to ask the bartender to pour them “a Dr. DeKay.” Soon he settled at Oyster Bay on Long Island, where he would 6 Copyright 2013 Austin Meredith HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM HENRY FARQUHAR MARGARET BRIGGS FARQUHAR GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM study natural history, contribute to New-York newspapers, and cultivate literary friendships. Among the romantic literary types whom he would seek to cultivate would be Washington Irving, Joseph Rodman Drake, James Fenimore Cooper, and Fitz-Greene Halleck. (You will notice instantly that the exigencies of class would make it quite impossible for him ever to cultivate the likes of Henry Thoreau as part of such a clique.) When the 1st person died of the cholera in his town, Friend John Cadbury the chocolate maker insisted on following in his “broad-brimmed hat and flowing Quaker frock-coat” as the hired laborers carried the coffin to the graveyard. This was at a time when other people were shunning the victims of the infection. Such burial workers smoked tobacco constantly while on such details, as their effort to ward off the disease or at least somewhat relieve their anxieties. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project 7 HDT WHAT? INDEX MARGARET BRIGGS FARQUHAR WILLIAM HENRY FARQUHAR GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM Friend John had installed a window made of panes of plate glass in his shop (rather than using the conventional panes of crown glass), one of the 1st local businesses to do so, and was employing an authentic Chinaman attired in an authentic Chinese national costume, to sit on display in the window and weigh and pack his tea. Hoo-hah! GLASS WINDOWS George W. Warren would write of the activities of his father Josiah Warren (1798-1874) the anarchist, during the public crisis of this year: Then in 1832 the cholera first made its appearance, and I well remember how my father set up his type and printed hand-bills cautioning the people how to live during the prevalence of that disease. These bills described the symptoms and how to treat them. Then I was allowed to go with my father to scatter the bills of caution along the streets, and I remember how proud I was when those who saw what my father was doing, shook hands 8 Copyright 2013 Austin Meredith HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM HENRY FARQUHAR MARGARET BRIGGS FARQUHAR GO TO MASTER HISTORY OF QUAKERISM with him so warmly.
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