Dolly Kneeland papers, 1836-1845.

Kneeland, Abner, 1774-1844

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Abner Kneeland was a pioneer evangelist and Baptist minister who converted to Universalism. As a Universalist preacher he served several congregations before he embraced the skeptical religious ideas of utopian industrialist Robert Owen. In the years that followed his free thinking ideas offended the Universalists and in 1833 he was accused of being an atheist and charged with blasphemy. He served 60 days in a Boston jail for the blasphemy offense, the last man in the United States for be jailed...

Kneeland, Dolly L., 1800-1871.

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Dolly was the fourth and last wife of Abner Kneeland. She married James Rice in 1820 and had four children by the marriage. A year after James's death in 1833 she married Abner Kneeland during the controversy and trials associated with the blasphemy charges against Kneeland. Dolly shared much of Abner Kneeland's prison time with him. Abner and Dolly had three children, two of whom were born after the couple moved to Iowa in 1839 to establish Salubria. Following Abner's death in 1844 she lived wi...

Kneeland family.

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