| Summary: |
- Summary by:
- Pat Deveney
- Title:
- American Spiritualist, The.
- Subtitle:
- Phenomenal, Scientific, Psychological. Organ of the Ohio and Wisconsin State Spiritualist Associations.
- Motto:
- Other Titles:
- Published:
- 1869-1872
- Frequency:
- Biweekly, then weekly
- Location:
- Cleveland, OH, New York, NY.
- Language:
- English.
- Editor(s):
- Hudson Tuttle, H.O. Hammond, George A. Bacon, Joseph Baker, J.O. Barrett, J.M. Peebles and A.A. Wheelock.
- Publisher(s):
- American Spiritualist Publishing Co..
- Corporate Author:
- Succession:
- Succeeds: Ohio Spiritualist and Spiritualist (Janesville, consolidated to form American Spiritualist)
- Description:
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." |
