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American Shaker leader & writer
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Birth:
1808
Death:
1893
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Biography
Introduction
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.
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, whose leader he became in the United States. 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