| Summary:
|
From Pat Deveney's database:
American Spiritualist, The.
Phenomenal, Scientific, Psychological. Organ of the Ohio and Wisconsin State Spiritualist Associations.
1869-1872 Biweekly, then weekly
Cleveland, OH, New York, NY. Publisher: American Spiritualist Publishing Co.. Editor: Hudson Tuttle, H.O. Hammond, George A. Bacon, Joseph Baker, J.O. Barrett, J.M. Peebles and A.A. Wheelock.
Succeeds: Ohio Spiritualist and Spiritualist (Janesville, consolidated to form American Spiritualist)
1/1,June 12, 1869-5/22, August 3, 1872 (last issue at NSAC in Lily Dale). $2.50 a year. 12-16 pp., 12 x 16. The journal was the result of the combination of Hammond's Ohio Spiritualist and the Spiritualist of Janesville. In 1870 the American Newspaper Directory said the journal claimed a circulation of "about 2,000." It removed to New York in January 1872 and began publishing as a weekly. The Banner of Light for December 10, 1870, noted that Peebles, then American Counsel at Trebizond, would take up editing the journal. The 1871 Year-Book of Spiritualism, edited by Tuttle and Peebles, says that it was "fearless, radical, and uncompromising." Advertised in the Western Star as "thoroughly radical, reformatory, and spiritualist." Harvard University; Wisconsin Historical Society.
|
