Frederick William Evans

American Shaker writer

Frederick William Evans

Born	9 June 1808 Leominster
Died	6 March 1893 New Lebanon, New York
Occupation	Shaker writer

Frederick William Evans (9 June 1808 – 6 March 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. A diligent student in his leisure hours, Evans was attracted by the theories of Robert Dale Owen and Charles Fourier. After a brief return to Britain, he joined the Shaker community. He became the Presiding Elder in 1858.^[2] He died in New Lebanon, New York.

Evans was a vegetarian for sixty years.^[3]

Works

Tests of Divine Revelation (1853)
Compendium (1859)
Ann Lee (The Founder of the Shakers): A Biography (1869)
Shaker Communism (1871)
Autobiography of a Shaker (1888)

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.
^ "Evans, Frederick William (1808-1893)". Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon. Retrieved 11 September 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Robinson, Charles Edson. A Concise History of the United Society of Believers Called Shakers. East Canterbury. p. 134

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.