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NEW See also:HARMONY , a See also:village in Posey See also:county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., on the See also:Wabash See also:river, about 22 m. N.W. of See also:Evansville. Pop. (1900) 1341; (1920) 1229. It is served by the See also:Illinois Central railway, and has See also:regular steamboat connexion with the river cities. New Harmony had its beginning in 1814-1815, when it became the See also:home of a communistic religious See also:sect known variously as the Harmonists, Harmonites and Rappites, founded in See also:Germany towards the end of the 18th See also:century by See also:George Rapp (1757-1847), a native of Iptingen in See also:Wurttemberg. Rapp and his followers, who sought to See also:form a community after the manner of the See also:primitive See also:Christian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, were persecuted in Germany, and in 1803-1804 emigrated to See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler county, See also:Pennsylvania. There they established in 18o5 a community known as Harmony, consisting of some 600 persons, who held their See also:property in See also:common and in 1807 adopted See also:celibacy. In 1814 Rapp sold most of his Pennsylvania See also:land and bought about 24,735 acres (in the next ten years more than 14,000 acres in addition) on the Wabash river in Indiana Territory. In 1814-1815 Rapp and a thousand of his followers settled on the Indiana See also:tract, their headquarters being established at New Harmony, or Harmonie as they called it. The settlers, mostly Germans, devoted themselves to See also:agriculture, See also:weaving and See also:leather-working so industriously that they prospered from the start. Rapp, however, in 1825 disposed of his lands and property to See also:Robert See also:Owen, having returned with See also:part of his followers to Pennsylvania and founded a new community known as See also:Economy (q.v.), in See also:Beaver county, where he died in 1847. See also:Intent on See also:founding a socialistic community, Owen went to the See also:United States in 1824, and See also:purchased Rapp's lands and live stock for $182,000. He interested several well-known scientists in his See also:settlement, and with them came to New Harmony in the See also:spring of 1826. Within six months the community numbered over z000. Among its most notable members were Robert Owen's sons, Robert See also:Dale Owen (1801-1877), a See also:political See also:leader and diplomat; See also:David Dale Owen (1807-1860) and See also:Richard Owen (1810-189o), both geologists of See also:note; See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:MaClure (1763-1840), the founder of the See also:Academy of Natural Sciences at See also:Philadelphia; See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Say (1787-1834), " the See also:father of See also:American See also:Zoology"; See also:Charles See also:Lesueur, a scientist and antiquarian; and See also:Gerard Troost (1776-1850), a well-known geologist. The greater part of the settlers, how-ever, were impractical theorists or adventurers. Constitution after constitution was adopted, and with the See also:adoption of each new constitution and with each new religious discussion a See also:group would secede and form a See also:separate community—in 1828 there were ten—the best known and most successful being Macluria (like the others, occupying a part of Owen's land), named after William MaClure, who became its directing See also:power. The whole organization See also:broke up in 1827, and Owen See also:left New Harmony in 1828. New Harmony has a Working Men's See also:Institute Public Library, founded in 1838 by William MaClure,
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- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams See also:Man " 1827-1828 " See also:Jackson Man " 1828-1829 " Adams Man " 1829-1830 " Jackson Man "
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and having in 1907 18,000 volumes; the collection is See also:rich in See also:works dealing with See also:socialism.
See " The Harmony Society " in See also:German-American See also:Annals (Philadelphia), vol. 2 (new See also:series), for See also:January 1904; G. B. See also:Lock-See also:wood and C. A. Prosser, The New Harmony See also:Movement (New See also:York, 1907); See also:Meredith See also:Nicholson, The Hoosiers (New York, 19o'); See also:Morris Hillquit, See also:History of Socialism in the United States (New York, 1903) ; and See also:Frank Podmore, Robert Owen (See also:London, 1906).
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