Listings of 19th Century Spiritualists
from Directories, Registers, Almanacs, Newspapers,
Society Membership Lists, and Convention Proceedings
1851
Buchanan’s Journal of Man (Cincinnati), November
The Magnetic Society of New Orleans, 1846-1851.The Spirit Messenger (Springfield, Massachusetts), May-JuneThe Harmonial Brotherhood.1852
Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 16-19
Spiritual Convention and concurrent events in Cleveland.New York Times, September 23 & Massachusetts Spy (Worcester), October 6Convention of Believers in Spiritual Manifestations, at Worcester.New York Times and Boston JournalSpiritualist Convention in Boston, December 29-31.The Mountain Cove CommunityVarious Accounts of an Early Spiritualist Utopian Community.
1853
Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, April 7-9
Spiritualist Convention in Springfield, including notes of a trance anti-slavery skit.Alton (Illinois) Daily Courier, September 2Convention in Peoria of advocates of spiritualism and of women’s rights.1854
Society for the Diffusion of Spiritual Knowledge
Charter, June 10; Address of the Society to the Citizens of the United States; List of Officers.Massachusetts Spiritualists ConventionMeeting, June 2; officers, and plans for a national convention.New-England Spiritualists’ AssociationConstitution and By-Laws, List of Officers, and Address to the Public; Organized at Boston, November 1854.1855
The Spiritual Telegraph (New York), July 14 and August 11
Paid notices of mediums, spirit circles, and healers; agents for the Spiritual Telegraph newspaper.The New York Daily Times, September 11-14.Spiritualist activities in New York City.1856
The Spiritual Telegraph (New York), August 23 and September 6
Spirit and Clairvoyant Mediums; Spiritualists’ Directory—Public Lecturers; Journals, Magazines; Mediums’ Advertisement.1857
What Is Spiritualism? Ancient and Modern Spiritualism; Modern Spirit-Manifestations; Number of Spiritualists; General Register—Speakers in Public, Test Mediums & Others; Publications on Spiritualism; Spiritualist Journals; Public Spiritual Meetings; Spiritualists’ Homes.1858
General Register—Public Speakers; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.; Public Meetings; Spiritualists’ Homes.The New York Times, June 29Reporting on the Free Convention in Rutland, Vermont, June 26-29; New York Free Love League.The New York Tribune, June 29Reporting on the Free Convention in Rutland, Vermont.The New York HeraldReporting on the Philanthropic Convention, Utica, New York, September.1859
Individuals Responsible; General Register—Public Speakers; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.; Spiritualists’ Homes; Spiritual Schools; Journals, Wholly or in Part Spiritualist.The National Spiritualist ConventionPlymouth, Massachusetts, May 5-8.1860
The Spiritual Theory; What Spiritualism Has Done; The Soul’s Authority; Living Inspirations; Re-Union of Friends; True Reform; Individual Freedom; Spiritualism and the Bible; The Spiritual Dispensation; Mediums Defended; Agitation; Radicalisms, Reform; Spiritual Progress; True Marriage; Vision of Progress; The Spiritual Theory; Spiritual Intercourse; Trial and Triumph; Divine Love; General Register—Public Speakers; Regular Meetings; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.; Journals, Wholly or in Part Spiritual; Schools; Spiritualists in America; Summary.The Herald of ProgressAnnual Meeting of the Infidel Association of America1861
General Register—Public Speakers; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.; Journals, Wholly or in Part Devoted to Spiritualism; Schools; Healing Institutes; Home for the Friendless.1862
Writers, Speakers, and Workers, in the Different Fields of Human Progress: Literature, Morals, and General Education; Spiritualism, Philosophy, and Reform—Traveling Lecturers; Local Speakers; Physiology, Psychology, and Spiritualism; Prominent Foreign Spiritualists; Universal Freedom, Political and Moral Progress; Social, Mental and Governmental Movements; Temperance, Health, and Dietetic Reform; Freedom and Equality of the Sexes; Practicing Women Physicians; Practical Dress Reformers; More Women Physicians.1863
Writers, Speakers, and Workers, in the Different Fields of Human Progress—Progressive Writers and Speakers; Spiritualism, Philosophy, and Reform—Traveling Lecturers, Local and Occasional Speakers; Magnetic Operators, Clairvoyants, and Medical Mediums; Anti-Slavery Reformers; Temperance and Health Reformers; Social Agitators; Woman’s Rights Reformers; Practicing Women Physicians; Instructors in Light Gymnastics; Practical Dress Reformers; Trans-Atlantic Progressives; More Women Physicians.The Friend of Progress (New York City), December 1864.The Moral Police Fraternity, New York City, founding in 1863, incorporation in 1864.1864
Writers, Speakers, and Workers, in the Different Fields of Human Progress—Progressive Writers and Speakers: American and Trans-Atlantic; Spiritualism, Philosophy, and Reform—Traveling Lecturers, Local and Occasional Speakers; Magnetists, Clairvoyants, and Mediums; Anti-Slavery Reformers; Temperance and Health Reformers; Social Agitators; Woman’s Rights Reformers; Practicing Women Physicians; Dress Reformers; Medical Colleges for Women.The Chicago Tribune, August 10-18.The First National Spiritualists Convention, Chicago, Illinois.The Religio-Philosophical Journal, November 11, 1865.The Formation of the Religio-Philosophical Society, 1864.1865
The Banner of Light (Boston), July 1
Notices of Meetings; Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and Addresses; Prospectus of the Banner of Light, with Contributors, Terms of Subscription, and Wholesale and Retail Agents.The Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), November 11Second National Convention of Spiritualists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.1866
The Banner of Light (Boston), February 10
The Banner of Light (Boston), June 30Massachusetts Spiritualists Association: Membership List.Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and Addresses.The Banner of Light (Boston), August-OctoberThe First Spiritualist Mass Camp Meeting; announcement and proceedings.The Banner of Light (Boston), August 25 and September 1Michigan State Spiritual Association.The Banner of Light (Boston), September 1Third National Convention of Spiritualists, Providence, Rhode Island; delegates.The Providence Journal and The New York Times, August 20-27, September 1Reporting on the Third National Convention of Spiritualists, Providence, Rhode Island.1867
The Banner of Light (Boston), February 9
The Banner of Progress (San Francisco), June 1Massachusetts Spiritualists Association: Membership List.Progressive Lyceum Register; Spiritualist Societies and Meetings; Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and Addresses.The Banner of Light (Boston), July 6Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and Addresses.The Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 3-7Fourth Annual National Spiritualist Convention, September 3-6, Cleveland, Ohio.Banner of Light (Boston), January 18, 1868Officers and delegates of the First Convention of the Ohio State Association of Spiritualists, Clyde, Ohio, November 8-10, 1867.1868
The Banner of Light (Boston), July 4
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.The American Association of SpiritualistsConstitution; resolutions on spiritualism.The Rochester Daily Union and AdvertiserFifth National Spiritualists Convention (American Association of Spiritualists) in Rochester, New York, August 21-25.1869
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
Sixth National Spiritualists Convention (American Association of Spiritualists) in Buffalo, New York, August 31-September 2.The New-York Herald, May 29Reporting on the Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, Boston.The New-York Herald, June 15-16Reporting on the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Human Progress, Waterloo, New York.1870
The Banner of Light (Boston), June 18
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.The Indiana Radical and the Richmond (Indiana) TelegramSeventh annual convention of the National Convention of Spiritualists: September 19-22, 1870. Lyceum Hall, Richmond, Indiana.1871
Spirit-Art; A Song and a Truth; How to Form Spirit-Circles; The Anniversary of the Advent of Modern Spiritualism: The Thirty-First of March; California—Its Ways and Wonders; Spiritualism in Washington, D. C.; Spiritualism in Philadelphia; Names of Prominent [Foreign] Spiritualists; History of the National Organization of Spiritualists; State Organizations of Spiritualists; List of Societies of Spiritualists in the United States; List of Lyceums; List of Lecturers on Spiritualism and Relating Subjects; List of Media in the United States, with Post-Office Address; Spirit-Artists; Journals Devoted to Spiritualism.American Association of Spiritualists: Henry T. Child, “American Association. Official Report of the Eighth National Convention of the American Association of Spiritualists; Held at Troy, N. Y., September 12th, 13th, and 14th, 1871,” Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), September 30, 1871.Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, SeptemberMinutes of the First Day, Including Delegates; Report of the Board; Address to the Association from the Utah Spiritual Movement.North Collins Friends of Human ProgressGeneral notices, and reporting on Conventions, including one in Vineland, and some of the events at the annual convention of the American Association of Spiritualists in Troy, New York.“Meeting at North Collins,” Religio-Philosophical Journal, September 30, 1871. Minutes of the meeting.1872
The Banner of Light (Boston), July 27
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.The Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), March 30List of Lecturers; Mediums’ Directory.The Banner of Light (Boston), The Boston Investigator, The New-York Times, The Brooklyn EagleReporting on the Ninth annual convention of the American Association of Spiritualists.1873
Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York), April 5
Pennsylvania State Society of SpiritualistsProceedings of the National Convention of Liberalists and Spiritualists, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 19-22.The Banner of Light (Boston), July 12Henry Teas Child, “Spiritualism in Pennsylvania. Official Report of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania State Society of Spiritualists, held at Institute Hall, Philadelphia, April 1st, 1873,” Religio-Philosophical Journal, May 10.List of Spiritualist Lecturers.“Reformatory Lecturers,” Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York), August 16; “Directory of Social Freedom,” August 30Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Convention of the American Association of Spiritualists, Held at Grow’s Opera Hall, Chicago, on Tuesday, Sept. 16 [1873]. Chicago: 1873List of Spiritualist Lecturers; List of Lecturers on Free Love.List of delegates recognized by the Chair.1874
The Banner of Light (Boston), July 18
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.The Religio-Philosophical Journal, October 10The Universal Association of Spiritualists, convention delegates, resolutions.1875
The Banner of Light (Boston), August 7
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.The Religio-Philosophical Journal, June 26The Miracle Club and Protective Committee of New York: Letter and Card.1876
The Banner of Light (Boston), July 15
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.The Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 3, 31Spiritualist Campmeeting, Dubuque, Iowa.1877
The Banner of Light (Boston), August 4
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.Brief History of Spiritualism in ChicagoHistory of Chicago.Onset Bay Grove AssociationHistory of Plymouth County, Massachusetts.1878
The Banner of Light (Boston), August 17
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.Watkins Freethinkers Convention, August 23-25Selections from the Proceedings of the Watkins Glen, New York, Freethinkers Convention.1879
The Banner of Light (Boston), February 1
List of Spiritualist Lecturers; Spiritualist Meetings.History of the New England Spiritual Campmeeting Association at Lake Pleasant, Mass.; by H. A. Budington. Springfield, Mass.: Star Publishing Co., 1907List of Members, 1879; Lake Pleasant Newspapers; Presidents of the Campmeeting Association; Clerks, Treasurers, Vice Presidents; Speakers and Mediums Employed by the Association.The Word (Princeton, Mass.), JulyThe New England Labor Reform League; The New England Free Love League.Spiritual and Liberal Association of Grand Rapids, MichiganAlbert Baxter, History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan.Neshaminy Falls Grove Spiritualist CampmeetingBucks County Gazette (Bristol, Penn.), August 7, 1879.New York Spiritualists ConferenceWisconsin SpiritualistsThe New-York Times, May 12, 1879.Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, February 25, 1879.1880
The Banner of Light (Boston), July 31
Spiritualist Lecturers.The Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), May 15Directory—Lecturers; Mediums, Clairvoyants, Trance; Healers; Mediums Located in Chicago—Lecturers; Mediums, Clairvoyants, Trance; Healers; Mediums—Physical Manifestations.Professional Spiritualists1880 Federal Census listings for those identifying themselves, either for the census, or in the national spiritualist newspapers, as having the occupation of medium, trance lecturer, spiritualist, psychometrist, etc.The Word (Princeton, Mass.), AugustThe Union Reform League, Second Annual Convention.The Word (Princeton, Mass.), DecemberSpiritualist Camp MeetingsThe Anti-Death League, Third Annual ConventionSurvey of the Spiritualist summer Camp Meetings operating in 1880-1882.1881
The Banner of Light (Boston), July 3
Spiritualist Lecturers; Michigan Mediums Medical Association.The Word (Princeton, Mass.), OctoberThe Union Reform League, Third Annual ConventionCamp Etna, MaineThe Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, August 19, 1881.Founding of Liberal, Missouri in 1881Sikeston (Missouri) Herald,December 1, 1938.1882
The Banner of Light (Boston), August 12
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.1883
The Banner of Light (Boston), April 7
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
Niantic Spiritualist CampmeetingDenton (Maryland) Journal, August 25, 1883.1884
The Religio-Philosophical Journal, August 2
The Southern Association of Spiritualists: Convention.
The Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 5The New England Spiritualists Campmeeting Association: Announcement, Schedule for Lake Pleasant Spiritualist Campmeeting, and Officers of the Association.The Religio-Philosophical Journal, September 27The American Spiritualists Association: Convention at Lake Pleasant, August 21-23.The Banner of Light (Boston), February 9List of Spiritualist Lecturers; announcements for Lansing Union Convention and Michigan State Spiritualists Convention.The Truth Seeker Annual and Freethinkers AlmanacFormation (1877) and Early History of the New York Freethinkers Association.The National Liberal League Meeting of 1884A rift develops among Liberalists between Spiritualists on one side and Atheists and Materialists on the other.Neshaminy Falls GroveFrederick (Maryland) Weekly News, August 21, 1884.1885
The Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, July
The American Society for Psychical Research (Boston): formation, officers, members, and associates.The Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 4The Western Society for Psychical Research (Chicago).The Banner of Light (Boston), July 4List of Spiritualist Lecturers.Philadelphia Spiritualists Association, Seventh Annual Meeting Schedule & ReportingBucks County Gazette (Bristol, Pennsylvania), July 23, 1885; Trenton (New Jersey) Times, July 20, 1885.1886
The Banner of Light (Boston), January 9
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.The Southern Spiritualist AssociationThe Atlanta Constitution.1887
The Banner of Light (Boston), June 11
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.
The Peacemaker (Philadelphia), OctoberOfficers of the Universal Peace Union, 1887-1888.1888
The Banner of Light (Boston), May 26
List of Spiritualist Lecturers.Oregon State Spiritualist SocietyMorning (Portland) Oregonian, April 7, 1888.1890
Maine Spiritualist Campmeeting
Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, September 6, 1890.1891
The Veteran Spiritualists’ Union, Boston
Pamphlet Announcing Formation of the Veteran Spiritualists’ Union, and Membership Application.1892
Olean (N. Y.) Democrat, August 9, 1892.1893
List of Delegates.The Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), February 11Advisory Council of the 1893 World’s Congress Auxiliary on a Psychical Science Congress.1894
List of Officers, Trustees, and Delegates.
Camp Benson Spiritualist CampmeetingBangor Daily Whig and Courier, August 28, 1894.1895
National Spiritualists Association
Third Annual Convention, Washington, D. C.
First Spiritual Temple, BostonFort Wayne Weekly Gazette, December 26, 1895.1896
Early History of Spiritualism in California and the Pacific Coast.
Meeting of the New York Chapter of the National Spiritualist AssociationLima (Ohio) Times Democrat, February 27, 1896.
Fourth Annual Convention of the National Spiritualist AssociationFort Wayne Gazette, October 10, 1896.
Tri-State Spiritualist Meeting (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois)Fort Wayne News, August 17, 1896.1897
National Spiritualists Association
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Convention.
The Philosophical Journal (San Francisco), May 13 and May 20State Spiritualists Associations’Annual Meetings—California, Ohio, Texas.
Camp Chesterfield & the National Antispiritualist AssociationNewspapers from 1895—1897.1898
The Philosophical Journal (San Francisco), September 23
The Philosophical Journal (San Francisco), June 23California MediumsThe Golden Jubilee Celebration of Spiritualism, held in June in Rochester, New York, under the auspices of the National Spiritualists’ Association.1899
Seventh Annual Convention of the National Spiritualists Association, Chicago
Daily Herald (Delphos, Ohio), October 21, 1899.Fort Wayne News and Atchison Globe.1900
International Congress of Spiritualists and Occultists
Atlanta Constitution, October 28, 1900.
Indiana Spiritualist AssociationFort Wayne Daily News, July 19, 1900.A History of Cassadaga Camp. Compiled by W. H. Bach, Lily Dale, N. Y., and Presented as a Premium to the Patrons of The Sunflower. Lily Dale, N. Y.: The Sunflower Print, July, 1899.
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