Word: jabez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named "The Sharon." Into this cloister with his male & female followers he retired to pursue the spiritual ideal of the "Woman of the Wilderness." Changing his name to Father Friedsam "The Peaceful," Beissel was the first prior of the Ephrata Community.* He was followed by big Peter Miller, called "Jabez." The community grew to 300. After the Battle of Brandywine nearby, 500 wounded Continentals were nursed in the cloister by white-robed Ephrata nuns. As the years passed the community began to dwindle. In 1900 there were only 17 members, in 1920 none. "The Sharon" became a dilapidated catch...
...directed at two books, three magazines and a pamphlet issued by the India Independence League of America. The books, which he describes as having "more than any others influenced American thought about India," are Eminent Asians by Josef Washington ("Upton Close") Hall, and India in Bondage by Dr. Jabez Sunderland.* The magazines: The New Republic, Fleet's Review (described as "a 'tabloid' monthly read by most American business men"†), and TIME...
...Jabez North Jackson. 61, of Kansas City. Mo., "teacher, clinician and leader"; born. Labadie, Mo.; degree from University Medical College (Kansas City 1891; president...
Close by stands Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry from Alabama, a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress which elected Davis & Stephens to office, a lieutenant colonel of cavalry. He now lies in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. not far from the grave of Jefferson Davis...