The purchaser was Thomas Taylor, a wealthy Quaker from Frederick County, Maryland, who also had a strong interest in a milling operation.
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) provided general backing and most of the funds for the Union came from wealthy Quakers.
They rented property from Richard P. Hunt, a wealthy Quaker and businessman.
Another was Samuel Leggett, a wealthy Quaker, who in 1840 built the community's first school.
He added that she "went simpering mad on personal grounds alone - no doubt because a wealthy Quaker wouldn't marry her.
His parents were wealthy Quakers.
He was a wealthy Quaker who lived at Amwell near Ware in Hertfordshire, England.
He was born in Bristol, the son of a wealthy Quaker, and probably followed some business.
George Bax Holmes (1803-1887) was a wealthy Quaker and fossil collector in Victorian Horsham.
Anna T. Jeanes was a wealthy Quaker who lived in Philadelphia.