Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting
A Quaker "Monthly Meeting House" in Waynesville, Ohio
Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).[1] It is one of the seven bodies that represent the five different branches of the Society of Friends in Ohio.[2]
It is affiliated with Friends General Conference and encompasses 19 monthly meetings and two worship groups in Southwest Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.[3]
After the formation of the Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1821, a number of offshoot organizations were formed, stretching from Ohio to Illinois.[4] After a number of organizational changes and splits starting in 1830, the new name Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting was selected, and the meetings continue to date.[5][6]
References
- ^ The Quakers in America by Thomas D. Hamm 2006 ISBN 0-231-12363-9 page 90
- ^ Religion in Ohio: profiles of faith communities by Tarunjit Singh Butalia and Dianne P. Small 2004 ISBN 0-8214-1552-2 page 142
- ^ Yearly Meeting Handbook by Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting page 5
- ^ "A Great and Good People: Midwestern Quakers and the Struggle Against Slavery" by Thomas D. Hamm, April Beckman, Marissa Florio, Kirsti Giles, and Marie Hopper, Indiana Magazine of History Vol. 100, No. 1, March 2004
- ^ Quaker Theology Issue 19, Volume Ten, Number One, 2011
- ^ Slavery and the meetinghouse: the Quakers and the abolitionist dilemma by Ryan P. Jordan 2007 ISBN 0-253-34860-9 page 89
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