User:Logophile

My interests include:
 * Whodunnit novels, especially
 * Agatha Christie's Jane Marple and
 * Dorothy Sayers's Peter Wimsey


 * Genealogy and Family History
 * Three of my ancestors are Roger Williams, Philip Sherman, and Cassandra Burnell Southwick. I am related to Texas hero Henry Millard and to U. S. President Millard Fillmore.


 * History of New England, especially Rhode Island and Vermont.
 * My favorite New England people are Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and Ethan Allen.


 * Christianity and the History of Christianity
 * Friends
 * Mennonites
 * Early Baptists
 * Holiness movement
 * Christian and Missionary Alliance

I am a participant in the WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

New Articles Submitted

 * Biography
 * Eric Baker (activist)—co-founder of Amnesty International
 * Joel Bean—Quaker minister
 * William Coddington—early governor of Rhode Island
 * John Coggeshall--early leader of Rhode Island
 * Mary Fisher--early Quaker missionary
 * Joseph John Gurney—banker and activist
 * Jester Hairston—choir director, composer, singer, actor
 * Edward Hicks--painter
 * Christopher Holder--early Quaker preacher
 * Elizabeth Hooton--early Quaker preacher
 * Francis Howgill—early Quaker preacher
 * Rufus Jones—author, editor, and college professor
 * Thomas R. Kelly—Quaker missionary, teacher, and author
 * Phoebe Knapp—composer of hymn tunes
 * Henry Millard--Texas hero and my distant cousin
 * Phoebe Palmer-—leader in the Holiness Movement
 * Edward Pease (1767-1858)--railway owner
 * John Sanford (ca. 1605-1654)--a founder of Portsmouth, Rhode Island
 * Robert Pearsall Smith--proponent of the Holiness Movement
 * Hannah Whitall Smith-—speaker and author in the Holiness Movement
 * Alys Pearsall Smith--wife of Bertrand Russell, humanitarian
 * Cassandra Burnell Southwick--Quaker martyr, and my direct ancestor
 * Leroy S. Starrett-—inventor and businessman
 * M. Carey Thomas-—former president of Bryn Mawr College and suffragist
 * Mary Vaux Walcott-—naturalist and illustrator
 * Isaac Wilbour--governor of Rhode Island


 * Geography
 * Firbank Fell-—a hill in the Lake District of England


 * History
 * Gaols Act 1823—prison reform act of the United Kingdom
 * Portsmouth Compact--a founding document of Rhode Island


 * Religion
 * Blessed Assurance—Christian hymn
 * Testimony of Equality—Quaker principle
 * Testimony of Integrity—Quaker principle
 * Testimony of Simplicity—Quaker principle
 * Valiant Sixty--a group of early Quaker preachers
 * Higher Life movement--Christian Holiness movement in the United Kingdom
 * Conservative Friends--a branch of Quakerism


 * Literature
 * List of female private detective characters