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Demographic directory of the Harmony Society
- Title
- Demographic directory of the Harmony Society / compiled by Eileen Aiken English.
- Author
- English, Eileen Aiken.
- Publication
- Clinton, N.Y. : Richard W. Couper Press, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HX656.H2 A54 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 361 p. : ill.; 23 cm. +
- Summary
- Expands demographic knowledge of George Rapp's Harmony Society, an American communal utopian movement established in Harmony and Old Economy Village in Pennsylvania, and in New Harmony, Indiana. Provides information that relates members of the Society to each other through family ties, villages of origin, times of arrival in America, and when and why many left the Society.
- Series Statement
- American communal societies series ; no. 4
- Uniform Title
- American communal societies series ; no. 4.
- Subject
- Note
- Folded map in pocket inside back cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-338) and index.
- Contents
- A brief history of George Rapp's Harmony Society -- Conditions of membership in the Harmony Society -- Families in the Harmony Society -- Related families listed by surnames -- Villages of origin, guide to districts -- Chronology of births -- Chronology of initial dates of membership, with ages at entering the Society -- Chronology of deaths, with age at demise -- Chronology of secessions, with age at departure -- Lifetime occupations and avocations -- Marriages within and without the Harmony Society -- Correlation with member numbers in George Rapp's disciples, pioneers and heirs -- Views of Economy, where Harmonists lived and worked.
- ISBN
- 9780979644887 (pbk.)
- 0979644887
- LCCN
- 2011284373
- OCLC
- ocn712593762
- SCSB-1654190
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library