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Well, it appears that the class action suit against Google Books is being resolved, and Google feels free to make some texts available that it has been sitting on for years. Among those newly available files are an incomplete run of The Univercoelum and Spiritual Philosopher (1848-49), one of the periodicals that merged to form The Spirit of the Age, an important part of the literature of mutualism. Joshua King Ingalls was among the contributors to The Univercoelum, and the available issues contain a number of previously hard-to-access articles, and information about several more. It’s certainly not every day that […]
From the Archives
A Joshua King Ingalls miscellany
In 1843, Ingalls was a Universalist minister, working in Danbury, CT. Public records show that he performed the following marriage ceremonies, including, apparently, a double wedding: FOOT, Grandison D, m Mercy Ann PORTER, b of Danbury, this day Nov 5, 1843 GRIFFIN, Mary Ann, m William HURLBURT, b of Danbury, Nov 2, 1843 PECK, Ammon T, m Harriet TAYLOR, b of Bethel, Nov 8, 1843 PRICE, Lewis T, m Jane BENEDICT, Dec 31, 1844 PRICE, Nathan, m Amelia COLEMAN, Dec 31, 1844 STEVENS, Matthew B, of Brookfield, m Diadema WILDMAN of Danbury, Nov 6, 1844 TAYLOR, Harriet, m Reuben _____, […]
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J. K. Ingalls, “Reminiscences of an Octogenarian” (1897)
These Reminiscences, which largely refer to parties no longer dwellers of our sphere, are mainly the personal recollections of the author, who has never kept any regular diary. Where periodicals and books have been referred to, the memory has been relieved; but otherwise, it has been wholly relied upon. The motive leading to their publication, has been the request of friends, to have them put in readable form; but in addition to that, there are certain ideas I desired to put before the world in as familiar a form as possible.