Oct. 24: William Penn, English Quaker

BORN OCTOBER 24:

William Penn English Quaker and philosopher; founder of "Penn's Woods" (Pennsylvania). Wrote Christian polemics like the epigrammatic Fruits of Solitude; and No Cross, No Crown, written during imprisonment in the Tower of London.

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