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Frederick William Evans (June 9, 1808 Leominster - March 6, 1893 New Lebanon, New York) was a Shaker writer who served as an elder in the Mount Lebanon Shaker Society for many years.
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His father settled in the United States in 1820, and apprenticed him to a hatter in New York. He was a diligent student in his leisure hours, was attracted by the theories of Robert Dale Owen and Charles Fourier, and after a brief visit to England joined the Shaker community, whose leader he became in the United States.
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