Amos B. Keith

The Boston House of Equity was one of a number of commercial establishment organized on in the wake of Josiah Warren’s lectures on equitable commerce. It’s eventual failure to succeed in the same way as Warren’s own experiments may have been at least partially the result of the character of its proprietor, Amos B. Keith. The clippings here are simply what I have uncovered of the story so far and shouldn’t be taken as in any sense definitive. Clippings: Boston House of Equity. The unoccupied portions of Gray’s buildings, on the Chickering estate, have been leased to the Boston House […]