Grant, Elijah Phelps. Papers 1843-1874

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Grant, Elijah Phelps. Papers 1843-1874

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The Elijah Phelps Grant Papers consist of correspondence, as well as a few manuscripts and clippings. Much of the material in the collection relates to Grant's attempt to establish and promote a communal society in Kansas called Sikville.

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Grant, Elijah Phelps

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Elijah Phelps Grant (1810-1874) was the leading American Fourierite in the country west of the Allegheny Mountains in the 1840's. Grant left his native Connecticut soon after being graduated in law from Yale College, and began the practice of his profession in Canton, Ohio. Early in the 1840's he became an enthusiastic convert to the social doctrines of Charles Fourier, and subsequently led in the establishment of the Ohio Phalanx, one of those experimental colonies, usually designated as utopia...

Brisbane, Albert, 1809-1890

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