A. J. MacDonald collection of utopian materials ca. 1840-1865

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A. J. MacDonald collection of utopian materials ca. 1840-1865

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Research files on approximately ninety utopian communities, compiled by MacDonald for his unpublished work, The Communities of the United States. The collection consists primarily of MacDonald's notes, which range from extensive histories to brief sketches of communities. There is also printed material such as constitutions, prospectuses and articles about communities, and a few pencil and watercolor sketches of various communities. Communities particularly well represented include the Brook Farm Phalanx, Clermont Phalanx, Harmony Society, Icarian Community, North American Phalanx, Oneida Community, Prairie Home Community, Shakers, Skaneateles Community, Sylvania Association, and the Wisconsin Phalanx.

Total Boxes: 3; Other Storage Formats: microfilm; Linear Feet: 3.30

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349475

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Wisconsin Phalanx.

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Owen, Robert, 1771-1858

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Robert Owen (1771-1858) was born at Newtown, Wales to a working family, his father being employed as the local postmaster. From an early age Owen was encouraged to read and debate, and using this knowledge he was able to mentor the younger children at his school. Aged just 10 he left school and was apprenticed to a Mr James McGuffog, a linen draper from Stamford, Lincolnshire, and, according to his Autobiography, he was independent from his parents from this point onwards. ...

Warren, Josiah, 1798-1874

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The Periodical letter was published from 1854-1858. From the description of Letter [1853? n.p.] to "Dear and honored Sir" [n.p.]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34368974 Josiah Warren was a reformer, philosophical anarchist and inventor. Born in Boston, he was living in Cincinnati by 1821. In 1825 he fell under the influence of Robert Owen and moved to New Harmony, Ind., but within two years found he was opposed to all forms of government. He returned to Cinci...

Society of Separatists of Zoar

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Religious society founded in Zoar, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, by a group of German immigrants. From the description of Society of Separatists of Zoar records, 1817-1927 (1817-1873). (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 19795619 Society of Separatists of Zoar (1817-1898) was a religious community founded by German immigrants, who named their settlement overlooking the Tuscarawas River in Ohio after the Biblical Zoar. Zoar, according to the Bible, was...

New Lanark Establishment

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Clarkson Industrial Association (Monroe Co., N.Y.)

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Hopedale Community

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Social Reform Unity (Pike Co., Penn.)

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Prairie Home Community (Logan Co., Ohio)

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Integral Phalanx (Sangamon Co., Ill.)

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Nashoba Community (Shelby Co., Tenn.)

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Kendal Community (Stark Co., Ohio)

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Ebenezer Community (Erie Co., N.Y.)

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Oneida community

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The Oneida Community was a utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in the town of Oneida in Madison County, New York. Noyes, born in Vermont in 1811, attended Dartmouth College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological College and received his license to preach in 1834. He formed his first utopian community in 1836 in Putney, Vermont, practicing "complex marriage" in which every male was considered married to every female. In 1847 pending arrests for adulter...

Raritan Bay Union (Eagleswood, N.J.)

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Skaneateles Community (Mottville, N.Y.)

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Ohio Phalanx (Bellmont Co., Ohio)

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Moravian Church

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The Moravians came to the United States in 1735 primarily to preach the gospel to the Indians. Although the Moravians had contacts with many Indian tribes, they did most of their work among the Delawares. They followed this tribe westward from Pennsylvania to Ohio, to Canada, to Indiana,and finally to Kansas. They also worked among the Mahicans in New York and Connecticut, and among the Cherokees in Georgia and Oklahoma. The work lasted until 1900, for a total of over 150 years. From...

Sylvania Association (Pike County, Penn.)

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Tropical Emigration Society (England)

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Macdonald, A. J., (d.1854)

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Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)

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Brook Farm was founded by George Ripley in 1841 as a cooperative community based on a transcendental utopian model. In 1844, it began to run on a model inspired by Charles Fourier and in 1845 officially declared itself a Fourierist Phalanx. From the description of Account book : manuscript, 1844-1845 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612823101 ...

Alphadelphia Phalanx (Kalamazoo Co., Mich.)

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Moorhouse Union (Hamilton Co., N.Y.)

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Trumbull Phalanx (Trumbull Co., Ohio)

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Clermont Phalanx (Clermont Co., Ohio)

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Marlborough Association (Clinton Co., Ohio)

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Northampton association of education and industry

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The Northampton Association of Education and Industry was founded in 1841 near Northampton, Mass., as a utopian socialist community, by such men as Hall Judd (1817-1850), William Adam ( - ), David Mack (1804-1878), George William Benson (1808- ), who served as president, and Samuel Lapham Hill (1806-1882). A contemporary of Brook Farm, the Association was a middle-class experiment in transcendentalism and Fourierism that attracted world-wide attention. It stressed the importance of ...

Wisconsin Phalanx.

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Icarian Community

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Communal society in Nauvoo, Illinois. From the description of Account, 1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122392182 From the guide to the Icarian Community account, 1856, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Utopian, socialist society founded and led by Etienne Cabet. From the description of Legal instruments, 1852-1854. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122608827 From the guide to the Icarian Community legal instruments, 1852-1854, (L. Tom Perry S...

Harmony Society

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The original German, utopian community, Harmonie Society, arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1780s, relocated to New Harmony, Indiana, in 1814. It established a final home, Economy, near Ambridge, in western Pennsylvania, in 1825. The Society prospered through 1868, dissolving itself in 1905 after membership declined. From the description of Harmony Society collection, 1838-1935. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 126881760 The Harmony Society was a G...

North American Phalanx (Phalanx, N.J.)

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Shakers

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The South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Society was located in Logan County, Kentucky, southwest of Bowling Green. From the description of South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Society records, 1769-1922 (1804-1916) [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 45232375 The United Society of Believers, also known as the Shakers, of South Union, Logan County, Ky., was established by missionaries from Ohio and Upper Kentucky who arrived in the Gaspar River area in 1807. T...

Wright, Frances, 1795-1852

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American social reformer. From the description of Autograph letter signed (as Mme D'Arusmont) : Paris, to an unidentified recipient, 1835 Oct. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584300 Wright was a Scottish-American social reformer. Pertz was the wife of German historian Georg Heinrich Pertz. From the description of Letters to Julia Garnett Pertz, 1820-1829. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84317427 From the guide to the Frances Wright letter...