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Henry Watson Wilbur

1851–1914

A Quaker writer and historian whose books brought together religious biography, social thought, and American history. His work ranges from studies of Elias Hicks and Job Scott to reflections on Lincoln, slavery, and emancipation.

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The Life and Labors of Elias Hicks

The Life and Labors of Elias Hicks

by Henry Watson Wilbur

About the author

Born in 1851 and active into the early 20th century, Henry Watson Wilbur wrote mainly on Quaker history, belief, and public life. Records gathered by The Online Books Page list works including A Study in Doctrine and Discipline (1908), Job Scott: An Eighteenth Century Friend (1911), and President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation (1914).

His books show a writer interested in both spiritual biography and larger moral questions in American life. He appears to have focused especially on prominent Friends such as Elias Hicks and Job Scott, while also writing about Lincoln and the Civil War era in a way that connected historical events with questions of conscience and reform.

Reliable sources located for this overview confirm his dates as 1851–1914 and document several of his publications, but they did not provide enough clearly verified biographical detail to go much further with confidence. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the pages checked.