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Title: How Quakers Got Name; Death of George Fox
Author: Uncle Ray
Source: Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia
Date: 4/15/1953
Folder/Item #: Friends, Society of (1) to 1999; 12
Notes:
Abstract: George Fox told a judge to quake and tremble at the word of the Lord; somehow this resulted in Mr. Fox’s followers to be given the name Quakers. George Fox died nine years after the founding of Pennsylvania