Frederick William Evans
Frederick William Evans (June 9, 1808 - March 6, 1893) was a Shaker writer who served as an elder in the Mount Lebanon Shaker Society for many years. Evans was the younger brother of the land reformer George Henry Evans.[1]
Biography[]
Evans was born in Leominster, England. His father settled in the United States in 1820, and apprenticed him to a hatter in New York. He was a diligent student in his leisure hours, was attracted by the theories of Robert Dale Owen and Charles Fourier, and after a brief return to Britain joined the Shaker community. He became the Presiding Elder in 1858.[2] He died in New Lebanon, New York.
Works[]
- Tests of Divine Revelation
- Anne Lee, or Shakers and Shakerism
- Compendium
- Autobiography of a Shaker
- Religious Communism
Further reading[]
- Kolmer, Elizabeth (1999). "Evans, Frederick William". American National Biography (online ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0800447. (subscription required)
References[]
- ^ Murray, John (April 1996). "Henry George and the Shakers: Evolution of Communal Attitudes Towards Land Ownership". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 55 (2): 245–256. doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.1996.tb03205.x. JSTOR 3487086. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
- ^ "Evans, Frederick William (1808-1893)". Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- W. Randall Waterman (1931). "Evans, Frederick William". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). . The American Cyclopædia.
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