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Lizzie Doten
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Doten (April 1, 1827 – January 15, 1913) was an American poet and a prominent spiritualist lecturer and trance speaker and writer who received special attention for her supposed ability to channel poetry from Edgar Allan Poe after his death. She wrote poetry, fiction, and essays and edited an annual spiritualist publication, ''Lily of the Valley''. She was active on the lecture circuit between 1864 and 1880. Family and early life Elizabeth Doten was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the seventh of nine children. Both her parents were ''Mayflower'' descendants: Her father Samuel’s ancestor was Edward Doty, and her mother Rebecca was descended from William Bradford, the Pilgrim governor of Plymouth Colony. Her brothers, Major Samuel Doten (1812–1906) and Captain Charles Doten (1833–1918) led the first two Union companies to deploy from Plymouth in the Civil War. Another brother, Alfred Doten (1829–1903) left for the California gold fields on a sailing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Doten2
Lizzie or Lizzy is a nickname for Elizabeth or Elisabet, often given as an independent name in the United States, especially in the late 19th century. Lizzie can also be the shortened version of Lizeth, Lissette or Lizette. People * Elizabeth II (1926–2022), Queen of the United Kingdom * Elizabeth Sewall Alcott (1835–1858), real-life model for the character Beth March in the novel ''Little Women'' * Marie Elisabeth Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), Dutch painter * Lizzie Arlington, alias of Elizabeth Stroud, regarded by many historians as the first female to play organized baseball in the 19th century * Lizzie Arnot (born 1996), Scottish footballer * Elizabeth Mary Lizzie Deignan (née Armitstead) (born 1988), world champion British track and road racing cyclist * Lizzy Bardsley (born 1973), English media and television personality * Elizabeth Bolden (1890–2006), world's oldest person at the time of her death * Lizzie Borden (1860–1927), tried and acquitted for the notorious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiritualist
Spiritualism is the metaphysical school of thought opposing physicalism and also is the category of all spiritual beliefs/views (in monism and dualism) from ancient to modern. In the long nineteenth century The ''long nineteenth century'' is a term for the 125-year period beginning with the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and ending with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It was coined by Russian writer Ilya Ehrenburg and British Marxist his ..., Spiritualism (when not lowercase) became most known as a social Religion, religious Social movement, movement according to which the laws of nature and of God include "the continuity of consciousness after the transition of death" and "the possibility of communication between those living on Earth and those who have made the transition". The afterlife, or the "Spirit world (Spiritualism), spirit world", is seen by spiritualists not as a static place, but as one in which spirits continue to evolve. These two beliefs—that c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when his mother died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he was with them well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayflower
''Mayflower'' was an English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, ''Mayflower'', with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached America, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on , 1620. Differing from their contemporaries, the Puritans (who sought to reform and purify the Church of England), the Pilgrims chose to separate themselves from the Church of England because they believed it was beyond redemption due to its Roman Catholic past and the church's resistance to reform, which forced them to pray in private. Starting in 1608, a group of English families left England for the Netherlands, where they could worship freely. By 1620, the community determined to cross the Atlantic for America, which they considered a "new Promised Land", where they would establish Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims had originally hoped to reach America by early Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Doty
Edward Doty (August 23, 1655) was a passenger on the 1620 voyage of the ''Mayflower'' to North America; he was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact. Early life Doty came from England, but from where in England is currently unknown. A possibility might be East Halton in Lincolnshire. According to author Charles Edward Banks, Doty was from London and traveled with another Londoner, Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower passenger), Stephen Hopkins, as his servant. Hopkins was making his second journey to the New World as he had served about ten years prior under John Smith (explorer), Capt. John Smith at Jamestown, Virginia, Jamestown, Colony of Virginia, Virginia Colony. ''Mayflower'' voyage Edward Doty departed Plymouth, England, aboard the ''Mayflower'' on September 6/16, 1620. The small, 100-foot ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30–40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship's t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bradford (governor)
William Bradford ( 19 March 15909 May 1657) was an English Puritan separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the ''Mayflower'' in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657. His journal ''Of Plymouth Plantation'' covered the years from 1620 to 1646 in Plymouth. ''The fast and thanksgiving days of New England'' by William Deloss Love, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Cambridge, 1895. Early life [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Doten
Alfred Doten (July 21, 1829 - November 12, 1903) was an American journalist and diarist, and "the dean of the newspaper men of Nevada." Life Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1829, he went west to try his luck in the California Gold Rush in 1849. He became a journalist for the ''Como Sentinel'' in Como, Nevada in 1863, the editor of the ''Virginia Daily Union'' in 1864, an editorial writer for the ''Virginia Enterprise'' in 1866, and subsequently the editor of the '' Gold Hill Daily News.'' By the time of his death in 1903, he had become known as "the dean of the newspaper men of Nevada." His diary was edited by Walter Van Tilburg Clark and published posthumously in 1973. His sister, Lizzie Doten Elizabeth "Lizzie" Doten (April 1, 1827 – January 15, 1913) was an American poet and a prominent spiritualist lecturer and trance speaker and writer who received special attention for her supposed ability to channel poetry from Edgar Allan Poe ..., was a well-known writer and sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodeon (Boston, Massachusetts)
The Melodeon (1839 - ca.1870) was a concert hall and performance space in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, located on Washington Street, near West Street. Musical concerts, lectures, sermons, conferences, visual displays, and popular entertainments occurred there. History The Melodeon occupied the building of the former Lion Theatre (1836–1839) and Mechanics Institute (1839).Justin WinsorThe memorial history of Boston v.4. J. R. Osgood and Co., 1881; p.371. Proprietors of the Melodeon included the Handel and Haydn Society (1839); Leander Rodney (1844); Boston Theatre Company (1852); E. Warden (1857; temporarily renamed The Melodeon Varieties); Charles Francis Adams (1859).Eugene Tompkins, Quincy KilbyThe history of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901 Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Performances & events 1830s-1840s * 1839 ** Handel and Haydn Society. * 1840 ** "Soiree musicale. The celebrated Rainer Family, or Tyrolese minstrels."American Broadsides and Ephemera, Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Lyceum
The Boston Lyceum (est.1829) of Boston, Massachusetts was a civic association dedicated to popular education in the form of "lectures, discussions, ... declamation," and writing contests. It began "in Chauncy Hall on . On 13 August 1829 it formed its classes and made provisions for lectures and debates." Annual members' "exhibitions" of elocution took place in various venues around town, such as the Masonic Temple (1832), Tremont Hall (1839) and the Odeon (1840). Leaders included George Bancroft, Timothy Claxton, James T. Fields, Abbott Lawrence, William H. Prescott, William D. Ticknor, and Amasa Walker. Among the many lecturers: Nehemiah Adams, J.A. Bolles, David Paul Brown, Rufus Choate, William M. Cornell, C.C. Emerson, James Pollard Espy, Edward Everett, Dr. Grigg, George S. Hillard, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dr. C.T. Jackson, N. Jones, Rev. John Pierpont, Edgar Allan Poe, John Osborne Sargent, William H. Simmons, Charles Sumner, B.B. Thatcher, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Amasa Walk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Willard Clocks
Simon Willard (April 3, 1753 – August 30, 1848) was a celebrated American clockmaker. Simon Willard clocks were produced in Massachusetts in the towns of Grafton and Roxbury, near Boston. Among his many innovations and timekeeping improvements, Simon Willard is best known for inventing the eight-day patent timepiece that came to be known as the gallery or banjo clock. Early life Simon Willard – a 2nd great-grandson of the Massachusetts colonist Simon Willard (1605–1676) – was of the fifth Willard generation in America. The original Willard family had arrived in 1634 from Horsmonden, Kent (England), and they were among the founders of Concord, Massachusetts. Simon Willard's parents were Benjamin Willard (1716–1775) and Sarah Brooks (1717–1775), who were Grafton natives. Like all the Willard brothers, Simon was born on the family farm in Grafton, April 3, 1753. He was the second son; his brothers were Benjamin (1743–1803), Aaron (1757–1844), and Ephraim (1755– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Spiritualists
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1827 Births
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