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Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Records

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The digitized content of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Records consists of the meeting minutes for the Illinois Yearly Meeting of Friends from the year 1875 until 1923.

The Religious Society of Friends Illinois Yearly Meeting was established in 1875 by the Blue River Quarterly Meeting and the Prairie Grove Quarterly Meeting. These Quarterly Meetings were previously affiliated with the Hicksite branches of the Indiana and Baltimore Yearly Meetings, respectively. In 1900, the Illinois Yearly Meeting joined with six other Hicksite Yearly Meetings to form the Friends General Conference, with which it remains affiliated to the present. The collection of records was begun in 1977. Since then, Illinois Yearly Meeting and many constituent Quarterly and Monthly Meetings have deposited additional materials in the collection, and the archives as a whole is expected to grow in the future.

The digitized content contains seven volumes of Illinois Yearly Meeting Minutes. The volumes cover meeting minutes from 1875 to 1923.

The Illinois History and Lincoln Collections unit at the University of Illinois Library manages the physical items of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Records, 1828-2022 (MS 960). The collection was partially digitized in 2024. For more information, contact an archivist at ihlc@library.illinois.edu.