Oneida Community Collection 1811-1983 1850-1900

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Oneida Community Collection, 1811-1983, 1850-1900

Title

Oneida Community Collection 1811-1983 1850-1900

Resource Link

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/o/oneida_comm.htm

Abstract

Community and personal records, biographical materials, and memorabilia pertaining to the Perfectionist community established by John Humphrey Noyes in Madison County, New York, its predecessor community in Putney, Vermont, and its branch communities in Wallingford, Connecticut and Brooklyn, New York, and the successor joint stock organization, Oneida Community, Ltd.

Extent

30.5 linear ft.

Languages

eng,

Holding Repository

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6362407

Related Entities

There are 38 Entities related to this resource.

Wayland-Smith, Francis, 1841-1911

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Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882

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Born in Freeport, Illinois, Charles J. Guiteau was connected with the Oneida Community but later sued them. He was admitted to the Bar of Illinois but mostly worked as a bill collector. He was interested in law, theology and politics. He assassinated President James Garfield for which crime he was hanged in 1882. From the description of Papers, 1877-1881. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 22761008 Guiteau, a lawyer and supporter of the "Stalwart" faction o...

Noyes, Pierrepont, 1870-

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Noyes, Harriet Ann Holton, 1808-1895

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Noyes, George Wallingford

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Skinner, John Langdon, 1803-1889

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Hamilton, Erastus Hapgood, 1821-1894

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6916tgf (person)

Hinds, William Alfred, 1833-1910

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d65bmq (person)

The Oneida Community was a Utopian religious commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, a town in Central New York. Noyes and his adherents were believers in Perfectionism, the doctrine that it is possible to bring about Christ's millennial kingdom and be free of sin and perfect in this world. They practiced, among other things, plural or complex marriage, male continence and mutual criticism. William A. Hinds (1833-1910) was a member of the Oneida Communi...

Worden, Cornelia, 1847-1928

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69x5571 (person)

Newhouse, Milford James, 1847-1926

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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...

Barron, Alfred

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Wallingford Community

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Oneida, ltd.

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The Oneida Community, founded by John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1885) and his followers, was a religious utopian community practicing Perfectionism from 1848 to 1880 in Oneida, N.Y., with branch communities in other locations. When the Oneida Community dissolved in 1880, its business interests were organized as a joint stock company known as Oneida Community Ltd. Its primary business was manufacturing silverware. In 1935 the name was changed to Oneida Ltd. From the description of Oneida L...