Walter W. Edwards collection, 1855-1876.

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Walter W. Edwards collection, 1855-1876.

The collection consists of an engraving of Syracuse, N.Y., ca.1855, one photograph of the Oneida Community, ca. 1866; and one volume containing a coin inventory/registry of S. G. Smith, 1868-1876.

3 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7918136

Cornell University Library

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Edwards, Walter W.

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Walter Wallace Edwards, Class of 1893, was born in Forest Home, New York in 1871. He was a teacher from 1901 to 1904; a traveling inspector for Solvay Process Company, Syracuse, N.Y. from 1905-1921; from 1921 to 1940 did assorted work; retired in 1940; and served in World War II in ordnance. From the description of Walter W. Edwards student memorabilia, 1889-1848. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64691937 From the description of Walter W. Edwards collection ...

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...