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[edit] Primitive Friends in Linn, Iowa

The Friends meeting in Linn, Iowa was one of the largest of the original meetings in Salem QM after the 1854 division. This was Caleb Gregg's meeting. After Ohio YM Friends opened the new meeting at Springville (later re-named Whittier), many of the Iowa Primitives switched to that group. In the middle of this, the Primitives suffered a division in 1862 between the supporters of the Otis and King factions in New York and New England. Gregg, who was with the King faction, deeded over the Linn Meeting House to Springville Friends after it was clear that the Linn Kingites all wanted to join Ohio YM. Springville then established Hopewell Meeting in the old Linn Meeting House (named Hopewell for the meeting in Ohio on Caleb Gregg's farm). The King party at Linn died out soon thereafter, and Ann Branson mentioned that Gregg sat on the facing bench at Hopewell although he was never a member.

The Otis group, composed primarily of Friends in two families, continued to meet. They became part of Salem MM (Primitive) in Ohio in the 1870s. When Salem MM was laid down in 1888 and attached to Falls MM of Fallsington General Meeting, Linn was still an active meeting. A brief history of the Hampton family printed in the very early twentieth century mentioned the Primitives at Linn and indicated that they were still meeting there - though their membership was at Falls. If this in fact is the case, the meeting likely disbanded around 1910. Chronicler3 02:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)