1851
Buchanan’s
Journal of Man (Cincinnati), November
The Magnetic Society of New Orleans, 1846-1851.
The
Spirit Messenger (Springfield, Massachusetts), May-June
The Harmonial Brotherhood.
1852
Cleveland
Plain Dealer, February 16-19
Spiritual Convention and concurrent events in
Cleveland.
New
York Times, September 23 & Massachusetts Spy (Worcester), October 6
Convention of Believers in Spiritual
Manifestations, at Worcester.
New
York Times and Boston Journal
Spiritualist Convention in Boston, December
29-31.
The
Mountain Cove Community
Various Accounts of an Early Spiritualist Utopian
Community.
1853
Springfield
(Massachusetts) Republican, April 7-9
Spiritualist Convention in Springfield, including
notes of a trance anti-slavery skit.
Alton
(Illinois) Daily Courier, September 2
Convention in Peoria of advocates of spiritualism
and of women’s rights.
1854
Society
for the Diffusion of Spiritual Knowledge
Charter, June 10; Address of the Society to the
Citizens of the United States; List of Officers.
Massachusetts
Spiritualists Convention
Meeting, June 2; officers, and plans for a
national convention.
New-England
Spiritualists’ Association
Constitution and By-Laws, List of Officers, and
Address to the Public; Organized at Boston, November 1854.
1855
The
Spiritual Telegraph (New York), July 14 and August 11
Paid notices of mediums, spirit circles, and
healers; agents for the Spiritual Telegraph newspaper.
The
New York Daily Times, September 11-14.
Spiritualist activities in New York City.
1856
The
Spiritual Telegraph (New York), August 23 and September 6
Spirit and Clairvoyant Mediums; Spiritualists’
Directory—Public Lecturers; Journals, Magazines; Mediums’ Advertisement.
1857
The
Spiritualist Register, with a Counting House & Speaker’s Almanac; Containing
Facts and Statistics of Spiritualism, for 1857. By Mr. & Mrs. U[riah and
Eliza] Clark, Auburn, N. Y., U. Clark, 1857
What Is Spiritualism? Ancient and Modern
Spiritualism; Modern Spirit-Manifestations; Number of Spiritualists;
General Register—Speakers in Public, Test Mediums & Others; Publications
on Spiritualism; Spiritualist Journals; Public Spiritual Meetings;
Spiritualists’ Homes.
1858
The
Spiritualist Register, May 1858, May 1859; Facts, Philosophy, Statistics of
Spiritualism. U[riah] Clark, Editor and Proprietor. Auburn, New York: U.
Clark, Spiritual Clarion Office
General Register—Public Speakers; Mediums—Test,
Healing, etc.; Public Meetings; Spiritualists’ Homes.
The
New York Times, June 29
Reporting on the Free Convention in Rutland,
Vermont, June 26-29; New York Free Love League.
The
New York Tribune, June 29
Reporting on the Free Convention in Rutland,
Vermont.
The
New York Herald
Reporting on the Philanthropic Convention, Utica,
New York, September.
1859
The
Spiritualist Register for 1859; Facts, Philosophy, Statistics of Spiritualism.
U[riah] Clark, Editor and Proprietor. Auburn, New York: U. Clark, Spiritual
Clarion Office
Individuals Responsible; General Register—Public
Speakers; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.; Spiritualists’ Homes; Spiritual
Schools; Journals, Wholly or in Part Spiritualist.
The
National Spiritualist Convention
Plymouth, Massachusetts, May 5-8.
1860
Fourth
Annual Spiritual Register, with a Calendar and Speakers’ Almanac, for 1860;
Facts, Philosophy, Statistics of Spiritualism. U[riah] Clark, Editor and
Proprietor. Auburn, N. Y.: U. Clark, Spiritual Clarion Office
The Spiritual Theory; What Spiritualism Has Done;
The Soul’s Authority; Living Inspirations; Re-Union of Friends; True
Reform; Individual Freedom; Spiritualism and the Bible; The Spiritual
Dispensation; Mediums Defended; Agitation; Radicalisms, Reform; Spiritual
Progress; True Marriage; Vision of Progress; The Spiritual Theory;
Spiritual Intercourse; Trial and Triumph; Divine Love; General
Register—Public Speakers; Regular Meetings; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.;
Journals, Wholly or in Part Spiritual; Schools; Spiritualists in America;
Summary.
The Herald of Progress
Annual Meeting of the Infidel Association of
America
1861
A
Spiritualist Register; with a Calendar and Speakers’ Almanac, for 1861; Facts,
Philosophy, Statistics of Spiritualism. U[riah] Clark, Editor and Proprietor.
Auburn, N. Y.: U. Clark, Spiritual Clarion Office
General Register—Public Speakers; Mediums—Test,
Healing, etc.; Journals, Wholly or in Part Devoted to Spiritualism;
Schools; Healing Institutes; Home for the Friendless.
1862
The
Progressive Annual for 1862; Comprising an Almanac, a Spiritualist Register,
and a General Calendar of Reform; Published at the Office of “The Herald of
Progress.” New York: A. J. Davis & Co.
Writers, Speakers, and Workers, in the Different
Fields of Human Progress: Literature, Morals, and General Education;
Spiritualism, Philosophy, and Reform—Traveling Lecturers; Local Speakers;
Physiology, Psychology, and Spiritualism; Prominent Foreign Spiritualists;
Universal Freedom, Political and Moral Progress; Social, Mental and
Governmental Movements; Temperance, Health, and Dietetic Reform; Freedom
and Equality of the Sexes; Practicing Women Physicians; Practical Dress
Reformers; More Women Physicians.
1863
The
Progressive Annual for 1863; Comprising an Almanac, a Spiritualist Register,
and a General Calendar of Reform; Published at the Office of “The Herald of
Progress.” New York: A. J. Davis & Co.
Writers, Speakers, and Workers, in the Different
Fields of Human Progress—Progressive Writers and Speakers; Spiritualism,
Philosophy, and Reform—Traveling Lecturers, Local and Occasional Speakers;
Magnetic Operators, Clairvoyants, and Medical Mediums; Anti-Slavery
Reformers; Temperance and Health Reformers; Social Agitators; Woman’s
Rights Reformers; Practicing Women Physicians; Instructors in Light
Gymnastics; Practical Dress Reformers; Trans-Atlantic Progressives; More
Women Physicians.
The
Friend of Progress (New York City), December 1864.
The Moral Police Fraternity, New York City,
founding in 1863, incorporation in 1864.
1864
The
Progressive Annual for 1864; Containing an Almanac, a Spiritualist Register,
and a General Calendar of Reform; Published at the Office of “The Herald of
Progress.” New York: A. J. Davis & Co.
Writers, Speakers, and Workers, in the Different
Fields of Human Progress—Progressive Writers and Speakers: American and
Trans-Atlantic; Spiritualism, Philosophy, and Reform—Traveling Lecturers,
Local and Occasional Speakers; Magnetists, Clairvoyants, and Mediums;
Anti-Slavery Reformers; Temperance and Health Reformers; Social Agitators;
Woman’s Rights Reformers; Practicing Women Physicians; Dress Reformers;
Medical Colleges for Women.
The
Chicago Tribune, August 10-18.
The First National Spiritualists Convention,
Chicago, Illinois.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal, November 11, 1865.
The Formation of the Religio-Philosophical
Society, 1864.
1865
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 1
Notices of Meetings; Spiritualist Lecturers’
Appointments and Addresses; Prospectus of the Banner of Light, with
Contributors, Terms of Subscription, and Wholesale and Retail Agents.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), November 11
Second National Convention of Spiritualists,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1866
The
Banner of Light (Boston), February 10
Massachusetts Spiritualists Association:
Membership List.
The
Banner of Light (Boston), June 30
Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and
Addresses.
The
Banner of Light (Boston), August-October
The First Spiritualist Mass Camp Meeting;
announcement and proceedings.
The
Banner of Light (Boston), August 25 and September 1
Michigan State Spiritual Association.
The
Banner of Light (Boston), September 1
Third National Convention of Spiritualists,
Providence, Rhode Island; delegates.
The
Providence Journal and The New York Times, August 20-27, September 1
Reporting on the Third National Convention of
Spiritualists, Providence, Rhode Island.
1867
The
Banner of Light (Boston), February 9
Massachusetts Spiritualists Association:
Membership List.
The
Banner of Progress (San Francisco), June 1
Progressive Lyceum Register; Spiritualist
Societies and Meetings; Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and
Addresses.
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 6
Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and
Addresses.
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 3-7
Fourth Annual National Spiritualist Convention,
September 3-6, Cleveland, Ohio.
Banner
of Light (Boston), January 18, 1868
Officers and delegates of the First Convention of
the Ohio State Association of Spiritualists, Clyde, Ohio, November 8-10,
1867.
1868
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 4
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
American Association of Spiritualists
Constitution; resolutions on spiritualism.
The
Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser
Fifth National Spiritualists Convention (American
Association of Spiritualists) in Rochester, New York, August 21-25.
1869
The
Banner of Light (Boston), August 28
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
Sixth National Spiritualists Convention (American
Association of Spiritualists) in Buffalo, New York, August 31-September 2.
The
New-York Herald, May 29
Reporting on the Annual Meeting of the Free
Religious Association, Boston.
The
New-York Herald, June 15-16
Reporting on the Annual Meeting of the Friends of
Human Progress, Waterloo, New York.
1870
The
Banner of Light (Boston), June 18
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
Indiana Radical and the Richmond (Indiana) Telegram
Seventh annual convention of the National
Convention of Spiritualists: September 19-22, 1870. Lyceum Hall,
Richmond, Indiana.
1871
The
Year-Book of Spiritualism for 1871; Presenting the Status of Spiritualism for
the Current Year throughout the World; Philosophical, Scientific, and
Religious Essays; Review of Its Literature; History of American Associations;
State and Local Societies; Progressive Lyceums; Lecturers; Mediums; and Other
Matters Relating to the Momentous Subject; by Hudson Tuttle and J[ames]
M[artin] Peebles. Boston: William White and Company, 1871.
Spirit-Art; A Song and a Truth; How to Form
Spirit-Circles; The Anniversary of the Advent of Modern Spiritualism: The
Thirty-First of March; California—Its Ways and Wonders; Spiritualism in
Washington, D. C.; Spiritualism in Philadelphia; Names of Prominent
[Foreign] Spiritualists; History of the National Organization of
Spiritualists; State Organizations of Spiritualists; List of Societies of
Spiritualists in the United States; List of Lyceums; List of Lecturers on
Spiritualism and Relating Subjects; List of Media in the United States,
with Post-Office Address; Spirit-Artists; Journals Devoted to
Spiritualism.
American
Association of Spiritualists: Henry T. Child, “American
Association. Official Report of the Eighth National Convention of the American
Association of Spiritualists; Held at Troy, N. Y., September 12th, 13th, and
14th, 1871,” Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), September 30,
1871.
Minutes of the First Day, Including Delegates;
Report of the Board; Address to the Association from the Utah Spiritual
Movement.
Woodhull
& Claflin’s Weekly, September
General notices, and reporting on Conventions,
including one in Vineland, and some of the events at the annual convention
of the American Association of Spiritualists in Troy, New York.
North
Collins Friends of Human Progress
“Meeting at North Collins,” Religio-Philosophical
Journal, September 30, 1871. Minutes of the meeting.
1872
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 27
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), March 30
List of Lecturers; Mediums’ Directory.
The
Banner of Light (Boston), The Boston Investigator, The New-York Times, The
Brooklyn Eagle
Reporting on the Ninth annual convention of the
American Association of Spiritualists.
1873
Woodhull
& Claflin’s Weekly (New York), April 5
Proceedings of the National Convention of
Liberalists and Spiritualists, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 19-22.
Pennsylvania
State Society of Spiritualists
Henry Teas Child, “Spiritualism in Pennsylvania.
Official Report of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania State
Society of Spiritualists, held at Institute Hall, Philadelphia, April 1st,
1873,” Religio-Philosophical Journal, May 10.
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 12
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
“Reformatory
Lecturers,” Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York), August 16;
“Directory of Social Freedom,” August 30
List of Spiritualist Lecturers; List of Lecturers
on Free Love.
Proceedings
of the Tenth Annual Convention of the American Association of Spiritualists,
Held at Grow’s Opera Hall, Chicago, on Tuesday, Sept. 16 [1873]. Chicago: 1873
List of delegates recognized by the Chair.
1874
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 18
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal, October 10
The Universal Association of Spiritualists,
convention delegates, resolutions.
1875
The
Banner of Light (Boston), August 7
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal, June 26
The Miracle Club and Protective Committee of New
York: Letter and Card.
1876
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 15
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 3, 31
Spiritualist Campmeeting, Dubuque, Iowa.
1877
The
Banner of Light (Boston), August 4
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
Brief
History of Spiritualism in Chicago
History of Chicago.
Onset
Bay Grove Association
History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
1878
The
Banner of Light (Boston), August 17
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
Watkins
Freethinkers Convention, August 23-25
Selections from the Proceedings of the Watkins
Glen, New York, Freethinkers Convention.
1879
The
Banner of Light (Boston), February 1
List of Spiritualist Lecturers; Spiritualist
Meetings.
History
of the New England Spiritual Campmeeting Association at Lake Pleasant, Mass.;
by H. A. Budington. Springfield, Mass.: Star Publishing Co., 1907
List of Members, 1879; Lake Pleasant Newspapers;
Presidents of the Campmeeting Association; Clerks, Treasurers, Vice
Presidents; Speakers and Mediums Employed by the Association.
The
Word (Princeton, Mass.), July
The New England Labor Reform League; The New
England Free Love League.
Spiritual
and Liberal Association of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Albert Baxter, History of the City of Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
Neshaminy
Falls Grove Spiritualist Campmeeting
Bucks County Gazette (Bristol, Penn.), August
7, 1879.
New
York Spiritualists Conference
The New-York Times, May 12, 1879.
Wisconsin
Spiritualists
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, February 25,
1879.
1880
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 31
Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), May 15
Directory—Lecturers; Mediums, Clairvoyants,
Trance; Healers; Mediums Located in Chicago—Lecturers; Mediums,
Clairvoyants, Trance; Healers; Mediums—Physical Manifestations.
Professional
Spiritualists
1880 Federal Census listings for those
identifying themselves, either for the census, or in the national
spiritualist newspapers, as having the occupation of medium, trance
lecturer, spiritualist, psychometrist, etc.
The
Word (Princeton, Mass.), August
The Union Reform League, Second Annual
Convention.
The
Word (Princeton, Mass.), December
The Anti-Death League, Third Annual Convention
Spiritualist
Camp Meetings
Survey of the Spiritualist summer Camp Meetings
operating in 1880-1882.
1881
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 3
Spiritualist Lecturers; Michigan Mediums Medical
Association.
The
Word (Princeton, Mass.), October
The Union Reform League, Third Annual Convention
Camp
Etna, Maine
The Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, August 19,
1881.
Founding
of Liberal, Missouri in 1881
Sikeston (Missouri) Herald,December 1, 1938.
1882
The
Banner of Light (Boston), August 12
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
1883
The
Banner of Light (Boston), April 7
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
Niantic
Spiritualist Campmeeting
Denton (Maryland) Journal, August 25, 1883.
1884
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal, August 2
The Southern Association of Spiritualists:
Convention.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 5
The New England Spiritualists Campmeeting
Association: Announcement, Schedule for Lake Pleasant Spiritualist
Campmeeting, and Officers of the Association.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal, September 27
The American Spiritualists Association:
Convention at Lake Pleasant, August 21-23.
The
Banner of Light (Boston), February 9
List of Spiritualist Lecturers; announcements for
Lansing Union Convention and Michigan State Spiritualists Convention.
The
Truth Seeker Annual and Freethinkers Almanac
Formation (1877) and Early History of the New
York Freethinkers Association.
The
National Liberal League Meeting of 1884
A rift develops among Liberalists between
Spiritualists on one side and Atheists and Materialists on the other.
Neshaminy
Falls Grove
Frederick (Maryland) Weekly News, August 21,
1884.
1885
The
Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, July
The American Society for Psychical Research
(Boston): formation, officers, members, and associates.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 4
The Western Society for Psychical Research
(Chicago).
The
Banner of Light (Boston), July 4
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
Philadelphia
Spiritualists Association, Seventh Annual Meeting Schedule & Reporting
Bucks County Gazette (Bristol, Pennsylvania),
July 23, 1885; Trenton (New Jersey) Times, July 20, 1885.
1886
The
Banner of Light (Boston), January 9
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
Southern Spiritualist Association
The Atlanta Constitution.
1887
The
Banner of Light (Boston), June 11
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The
Peacemaker (Philadelphia), October
Officers of the Universal Peace Union, 1887-1888.
1888
The
Banner of Light (Boston), May 26
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
Oregon
State Spiritualist Society
Morning (Portland) Oregonian, April 7, 1888.
1890
Maine
Spiritualist Campmeeting
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, September 6,
1890.
1891
The
Veteran Spiritualists’ Union, Boston
Pamphlet Announcing Formation of the Veteran
Spiritualists’ Union, and Membership Application.
1892
A
Visit to Lily Dale
Olean (N. Y.) Democrat, August 9, 1892.
1893
Proceedings
of the National Delegate Convention of Spiritualists of the United States of
America; Held in Chicago, Illinois, September 27, 28, and 29, 1893 . . .
Washington, D. C.: Stormont & Jackson, 1893
List of Delegates.
The
Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), February 11
Advisory Council of the 1893 World’s Congress
Auxiliary on a Psychical Science Congress.
1894
Proceedings
of the Second Annual Convention of the National Spiritualists’ Association of
the United States of America, Held at Washington, D. C., Oct. 9, 10 & 11, 1894
. . . Cincinnati: Light of Truth Publishing Co., 1894
List of Officers, Trustees, and Delegates.
Camp
Benson Spiritualist Campmeeting
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, August 28,
1894.
1895
National
Spiritualists Association
Third Annual Convention, Washington, D. C.
First
Spiritual Temple, Boston
Fort Wayne Weekly Gazette, December 26, 1895.
1896
“A
Review of the Progress of Spiritualism,” in Workers in the Vineyard [.
. .] by Julia Schlesinger. San Francisco, 1896.
Early History of Spiritualism in California and
the Pacific Coast.
Meeting
of the New York Chapter of the National Spiritualist Association
Lima (Ohio) Times Democrat, February 27, 1896.
Fourth
Annual Convention of the National Spiritualist Association
Fort Wayne Gazette, October 10, 1896.
Tri-State
Spiritualist Meeting (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois)
Fort Wayne News, August 17, 1896.
1897
National Spiritualists Association
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Convention.
The
Philosophical Journal (San Francisco), May 13 and May 20
State Spiritualists Associations’ Annual
Meetings—California, Ohio, Texas.
Camp
Chesterfield & the National Antispiritualist Association
Newspapers from 1895—1897.
1898
The
Philosophical Journal (San Francisco), September 23
California Mediums
The
Philosophical Journal (San Francisco), June 23
The Golden Jubilee Celebration of Spiritualism,
held in June in Rochester, New York, under the auspices of the National
Spiritualists’ Association.
1899
Seventh
Annual Convention of the National Spiritualists Association, Chicago
Daily Herald (Delphos, Ohio), October 21,
1899.
Proposal
for a Spirit Trust
Fort Wayne News and Atchison Globe.
1900
International
Congress of Spiritualists and Occultists
Atlanta Constitution, October 28, 1900.
Indiana
Spiritualist Association
Fort Wayne Daily News, July 19, 1900.
History
of Lily Dale
A History of Cassadaga Camp. Compiled by W. H.
Bach, Lily Dale, N. Y., and Presented as a Premium to the Patrons of The
Sunflower. Lily Dale, N. Y.: The
Sunflower Print, July, 1899.
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