John Otis Wattles and Esther Whinery Wattles family papers, ca. 1820s-1950, bulk 1838-1864.

Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Wattles, Esther Whinery, 1819-1908.

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Wattles, John Otis, d. 1859.

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John Otis Wattles was a radical Hicksite Quaker and an ardent abolitionist. With his brother Augustus, John founded the Prairie Home Community in Logan County, Ohio; the Clermont/Excelsior, Ohio, utopian community; and, later, the town of Moneka, Kansas. John married Esther Whinery, an elementary school teacher, in 1844. The Wattles brothers and Esther actively defended John Brown. They continued to promote abolitionism and utopian communal living until John Wattles' death in 1859. Esther and he...

Woodford, Harmonia Wattles, 1851-1924.

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Wattles, Augustus, 1807-1876.

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Excelsior Community (Clermont County, Ohio)

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Moneka (Linn County, Kansas)

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Wattles, Lucretia Celestia, 1849-1933.

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Case, Theano Wattles, 1853-1949.

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Wattles family.

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Prairie Home Community (Logan County, Ohio)

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