Oneida Community box, 1868, 1873-1880.

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Oneida Community box, 1868, 1873-1880.

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Collection of ca. 40 letters, 1873-1880, addressed to Rev. John W. Mears from members of the general public relating to his efforts to expose the evil practices of the Oneida Community and enlist public opposition to the community's institution of "complex marriage"; many of them sent to Mears from A. F. Beard of Syracuse, New York. Letters are accompanied by a folder of newsclippings and printed materials relating to the Oneida Community and the controversy surrounding it. Also included is a letter from H[enry] G. Allen, sent from the office of the Oneida Community in New York City, to O. S. Chaffee, Mansfield Center, Connecticut, regarding the sewing silk enterprise of the community and mentioning the prospect of expanding westward.

.2 linear ft. (1 box)

New-York Historical Society

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Beard, A. F.

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Mears, John W. (John William), 1825-1881

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Presbyterian clergyman and professor of intellectual and moral philosophy at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. From the description of Oneida Community box, 1868, 1873-1880. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58779201 ...

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...