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Although relatively few in number in America, the Quakers, or the Society of Friends, had been leaders in America’s early antislavery movement.

She was an artist who “absorbed the values of the Quaker Society of Friends,” according to her obituary.

That was a veiled historical reference to the Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, the liberal Christian sect to which William Penn, for whom Pennsylvania is named, belonged.

The college was founded in 1887 by the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, but is secular today.

The influence of a Quaker attorney willing to defend him pro bono sparked John’s conversion to the Religious Society of Friends.