Frederick William Evans
Frederick William Evans (June 9, 1808 Leominster - March 6, 1893 New Lebanon, New York) was a Shaker writer who served as an elder in the Mount Lebanon Shaker Society for many years.
Biography
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 visit to England joined the Shaker community, whose leader he became in the United States.
Works
- Tests of Divine Revelation
- Anne Lee, or Shakers and Shakerism
- Compendium
- Autobiography of a Shaker
- Religious Communism
Notes
Further reading
- "Evans, Frederick William". American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999.
References
- 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). "Evans, Frederick William". The American Cyclopædia.
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