Talking to the Dead (40 page)

Fox, Maria: birth of, 32; family bonds and, 13

Fox-Taylor Automatic Writing 1869–1892: Unabridged Record
(Taylor), 258

Franklin, Benjamin: message to Taylors, 257–258; spirit of, 102–103; spirit pictures and, 217; spirit visits of, 143–144, 201, 203; Taylors and, 228

Franklin, John, 155, 174–175

Fugitive Slave Law, 115

Fuller, Margaret, 25, 114

funerals, 56

Furness, Horace Howard, 233–234

 

Garrison, William Lloyd, 86

Gerry Society, 236

ghosts, 25.
See also
spirit communication Gordon, Gene, 266

Gordon, Henry: levitation of, 145; at Partridge house seance, 130, 131, 132

Granger, Adelaide: spirit events in Rochester and, 49–50; trip to Hydesville, 45

Granger, Elizabeth, 50, 54

Granger, Harriet, 50, 51

Granger, Mr. Lyman: Corinthian Hall demonstrations/investigations and, 78; spirit events in Rochester and, 49–50, 53

Gray, John: Charles Livermore and, 200; manifestations witnessed by, 203; at Partridge house seance, 130–132

Gray, John:
Cleveland Plain Dealer
and, 133

Greeley, Horace: on Corinthian Hall, 76; criticism of Lincoln, 204; death of, 227; defense of sisters, 113–115; estimate of family income, 40; with Fox sisters in New York City, 108–109; Kate Fox at home of, 115–117; on Maggie and Kane, 181; Maggie's conversion to Catholicism and, 193, 194; naming of “modern Spiritualism”, 147–148; on nation, 30; review of
Singular Revelations
, 94

Greeley, Mary: invitation to Kate, 114–115; Kate Fox at home of, 116–117

Greeley, Pickie, 108, 116

Grimes, Stanley, 122–123

Grinnell, Cornelius: administration of fund, 169; Maggie Fox and, 161, 172–173, 174

Griswold, Rufus, 110

Grover, Mrs. Elihu: spirit events in Rochester and, 50; trip to Hydesville, 45

 

Hamilton, General, 164

Hammond, Charles: book by, 147; seances with Fox sisters, 99–100

Hardenbrook, John, 69

Hardinge, Emma: Civil War and, 203–205; at Civil War seance, 207; on Corinthian Hall demonstrations/investigations, 84–85; on Kate's work, 170; on Leah, 195; on new Spiritualists, 211; on silence of spirits, 75; on spirit communication, 121; on spirits in Russia, 232

Hare, Robert, 190

haunting, 16

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 91

Hayden, Mrs. W. R., 220

headaches, 102

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 263

Higgins, Charles, 33

History of the Strange Sounds or Rappings, Heard in Rochester and Western New York, and Usually Called the Mysterious Noises! Which Are Supposed by Many to Be Communications from the Spirit World, Together with All the Explanation That Can Yet Be Given of the Matter
(Dewey), 95

Home, Daniel Dunglas: description of, 220–221; Kate and, 229–230; manifestations of, 224–225

Houdini (Ehrich Weiss), 5, 264

Hyde, Artemus, 14

Hyde, Henry, 13–14

Hydes Tavern, 14

Hydesville (NY): discovery of Charles Rosna's bones in, 56–58; Erie Canal and, 33; Fox family move to, 11–13; Fox family's house in, 14–15; history of, 13–14; Hydesville house moved to Lily Dale, 266–267; raps incident, 1–3, 16–24; raps incident accounts, 28–29

hypnosis, 25

hysteria, 15

 

investigation of phenomena: decline of Spiritualism and, 262; investigation of Kate, 232–233; by William Crookes, 224–225

investigation of raps:
Boston Courier
investigation, 190–192; in Buffalo (NY), 123–126; Corinthian Hall demonstrations/investigations, 78–86; investigation of Kate, 232–233; investigation of Maggie Fox, 233–234; in New York City, 109–110, 112–114; in St. Louis, 140

 

James, William: ASPR formation and, 234; on investigation of “wild facts”, 270; on Louis Agassiz, 191

Jencken, Ferdinand Dietrich Lowenstein: birth of, 226; death of/mediumship of, 267–268; detention of, 236–237

Jencken, Henry Dietrich: death of, 230; Ferdie and, 226; marriage to Kate Fox,
222–224; married life of, 228; personal estate of, 231

Jencken, Henry, Jr.: birth of, 226; death of, 267; detention of, 236–237; epilepsy of, 228–229

Jencken, Kate Fox.
See also
Fox, Kate: arrest of/alcoholism of, 236–237; author on, 270–272; death of, 258; denunciation of Spiritualism, 241, 244, 253, 255; last meetings with Taylors, 257–258; marriage of, 222–224; memorial garden for, 267; as mother, 226; move back to New York City, 235–236; move back to U.S., 234; as a mystery, 248–249; in Russia, 231–233; seance in London, 238–239; visit home, 226–228; William Crookes and, 224–226

Jervis, Ashahel H., 102–103

Jones, R.D., 76

Jung, Carl, 263

 

Kane, Elisha Kent: on alcohol, 212; Arctic expeditions, 155–157; courtship of Maggie Fox, 157–169; death of, 184; Louis Agassiz and, 190, 192; love letters of, 209; Maggie after death of, 206–207; Maggie's conversion to Catholicism and, 192–193; Maggie's letter to, 173–174; Maggie's life and, 248; Maggie's schooling and, 172; Maggie's story about, 243–244; Maggie's unhappiness and, 197; rescue of/return to New York, 179–180; romance with Maggie, 154–155; second Arctic expedition of, 174–175; time with Maggie, 180–184

Kane, John Kintzing, 156

Kane, Robert Patterson: death of Elisha Kent Kane and, 185; Maggie Fox and, 173, 192, 193, 194, 197

Kane, Willie, 157, 158

Kansas-Nebraska Act, 176

Kedzie, Lemira: Leah on, 137; quarrels of, 134–135; return to Rochester, 135

Kellog, Charles White, 125–126

Knowles, Mrs. Henry P., 23

 

LaFumee, Joseph: admirer of Maggie, 227; burial of Maggie and Kate, 259; possible author of
The Love-Life of Dr. Kane
, 155

Langworthy, H.H.: criticism of Fox sisters, 85; investigation of raps by, 81–82

Lape, Jane C., 23

Lee, Charles A., 124–125

Lee, Mother Ann, 27

Leiper, Eliza, 169

levitation: of Daniel Dunglas Home, 221, 224–225; of Henry Gordon, 145

Lewis, E.E.: on Hydesville raps incident, 23, 28–29; interviews published by, 17; quote from, 8

Light and Shadows of Spiritualism
(Home), 230

Light from the Spirit World; The Pilgrimage of Thomas Paine, and Others, to the Seventh Circle in the Spirit World
(Hammond), 147

Light
(magazine), 238–239

Lillie, Mrs. R. S., 254

Lily Dale, 260, 266–267

Lincoln, Abraham: assassination of, 208–209; Civil War and, 204, 205, 206; criticism of Kansas-Nebraska Act, 176

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 206

Lind, Jenny, 117

Livermore, Charles: Civil War and, 204, 207–208; marriage of, 222; visitation of Estelle, 199–203, 209–210

Livermore, Estelle: spirit communication of, 200, 201, 202–203; visitation of, 209–210

Livingston, Peter, 196

The Love-Life of Dr. Kane
(anonymous), 155, 209

 

Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America
(Washington), 5

magicians: Houdini, 5, 264; raps and, 27

manifest destiny, 69–70

Mattison, H., 142

McDonald, William: on Leah Fox Fish, 100; on seances, 98–99

McDonald, Wilson, 227

medical profession: decline of Spiritualism and, 262; spirit communication and, 123–125

mediums: after Civil War, 212; decline of Spiritualism and, 261, 262; defined, 4; emergence of, 120–121; of Europe, 220–222; Ferdinand Jencken as, 226; John Beaver and Sarah Tamill, 93; Kate as, 54; Leah as, 7; Mary Todd Lincoln and, 206; people's movement to become, 64–65; proliferation of, 144–147; questions about, 141–142; Spiritualism after 1893, 264

Memoirs of the Wesley Family
(Clarke), 25

men, 153

Merchant's Day Book
, 101

Merritt, Titus, 258, 267–268

Mesmer, Anton, 25

mesmerism: described, 25–26; healing through, 123; Isaac Post and, 68; spirit communication and, 61

Methodist church, 36

millennialism, 37

Miller, William, 40

The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism
(Underhill): family antecedents in, 32, 33–34; on Prospect Street house events, 48; publication of, 235

Missouri Compromise, 70

Modern American Spiritualism
(Hardinge), 75

Modern Spiritualism.
See also
Spiritualism:

Boston Courier
investigation, 190–192; Charles Livermore and Kate, 199–203; doubts about, 189–190; in Europe, 220–222; expansion of, 176–178; Kate and Maggie Fox and, 3–8; Maggie and Kate's denunciation of, 241–249, 253–257; Maggie's conversion to Catholicism and, 193; naming of, 147–148

Modern Spiritualism: Its Facts and Fantasies, Its Consistencies and Contradictions
(Capron), 177

Moodie, Susanna: on Canadian life, 38; on Kate Fox, 142; letter from Maggie, 206–207

Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), 36–37

Morse, Samuel, 148

Moses, William Stainton, 224

Mott, Lucretia, 64

music: Leah Fox Fish and, 44–45; played by spirits, 73; in seance, 131

 

National Spiritualist Association, 260

National Spiritualist Association of Churches: formation of, 260; Hydesville property and, 267; members of, 266

Native Americans, 147

Nell, William Cooper, 86

neurotheology, 266

New Age, 266

Newark Herald
, 23

Newark (NY), 33

newspapers, 107–108

Newton, Henry J., 255

Newton, Isaac, 242

New York: peddler figures in folklore of, 24; revivals/new religions in, 36–37

New York Circle, 121

New York City (NY): after Civil War, 210; Fox sisters in, 106–115; Kate in, 126, 127, 178; Kate's move back to, 235–236; Leah's move to, 140–141

New York Conference, 144

New York Herald
, 237, 239–240

New York Times
, 271

New York Tribune
: on Corinthian Hall, 76; estimate of family income, 40; Horace Greeley of, 30, 108; raps article in, 112–113; review of
Singular Revelations
, 94

North Star
(newspaper), 41, 69

Noyes, John Humphrey, 41

 

occult, 263, 264–265

Odic Force, 141

Ogden, Blanche, 220

Ohio, 133–140

Olcott, Henry Steel, 263

Olin: message from, 257; spirit communication with, 214, 217, 234

Oneida (religious community), 41

Ossoli, Angelo, 114

Owen, Richard, 90

Owen, Robert Dale: at seance, 207; Spiritualism and, 195–197, 198; visit with Kate, 218

Owen, Wilfred, 264

 

Pall Mall
(magazine), 238–239

parapsychology, 265

Parkman, George, 118

Partridge, Charles: Jacob Smith and, 171; Kate Fox and, 127; on seance, 130–132;
Shekinah
journal by, 147

peddler, 24.
See also
Rosna, Charles B. (Hydesville raps peddler)

Peirce, Benjamin, 190, 191–192

phalanxes, 41

phenomena.
See
investigation of phenomena; investigation of raps

phrenology: Stanley Grimes and, 122–123; theory of, 41

Pickard, Mr., 102

Pierce, Franklin and Jane, 162

PK (psychokinesis), 265

planchette, 220

political/social reform, 41–42

poltergeists: in 1800s, 25; during Kate's visit to Auburn, 73–74; spirit events in Rochester, 46–54

Post, Amy: Corinthian Hall demonstrations/investigations and, 78, 83–84, 86; described, 41–42; Kate's letter to, 138–139, 178; letters with Leah, 136–137; Maggie's letter to, 139–140; at Seneca Falls Convention, 64; spirit communication and, 60, 65–66

Post, Isaac: death of Calvin Brown and, 168; described, 41–42; as medium, 146–147; spirit communication and, 59–61, 65–66; spirit messages through Leah, 68–69; spirits insistence on public appearance and, 74, 75

Post, Joseph: on Fox family, 135, 178–179; spirits and, 66

Post, Matilda, 65

Post, Willie, 60

Poughkeepsie Seer, 26–27, 90–91.
See also
Davis, Andrew Jackson Prospect Street house, 47–54

Psychic Force, 225

psychokinesis (PK), 265

Pulver, Lucretia, 23–24

 

Quakers, 41–42

Quarterly Journal of Science
, 224

 

raps.
See also
investigation of raps; seances; spirit communication: Buffalo investigations, 123–126; Charles Livermore and Kate, 199–203; Corinthian Hall demonstrations/investigations, 78–86; Elisha Kent Kane and, 154; Fox sisters in New York City, 108–114; George Willets and, 60–63; Hydesville raps incident, 1–3, 16–24, 28–29; investigation of/doubts about, 66–68; Isaac and Amy Post and, 65–66; Isaac Post and, 59–60; during Kate's visit to Auburn, 73–74; Maggie's denunciation of, 243, 244–245; Mrs.

Norman Culver's claims about, 128–129; seances of Fox sisters, 95–103; Seneca Falls Convention and, 63–65;
Singular Revelations
pamphlet about, 91–94; spirit events in Rochester, 46–54; William Crookes and, 224–225

Reconstruction, 211

Redfield, Charles, 2, 19, 20–21

Redfield, Mary, 1–2, 19, 21–22

religion: death and, 55–56; decline of Spiritualism and, 261; emergence of mediums, 120–121; Maggie's conversion to Catholicism, 192–193; religious movements, 40–41; revivals/new religions, 36–37; scientific/technological discoveries and, 91

A Report of the Mysterious Noises Heard in the House of Mr. John D. Fox, in Hydesville, Arcadia, Wayne County, Authenticated by the Certificates, and Confirmed by the Statements of the Citizens of That Place and Vicinity
(Lewis), 17