新加坡多多开奖记录

One object omitted was one that this writer feels of importance because it was in Auburn that the first seances in the nation were held! (They were called 鈥渃ircles鈥� then.) They began in 1850 and occurred in the residences of five of Auburn's most elite.

The group called themselves 鈥淭he Auburn Circle,鈥� and several prominent people of the city attended. They included Auburn's police chief, James H. Boswick, and his wife, Sarah; Eliah A. Capron, journalist/author; Dr. Haratio Robinson Sr., physician; Dr. Sullivan Nortan Smith, dentist; George S. Wilson, printer; and C.V. Woodward.

What initiated the gathering of Auburn's elite were the events that occurred for the Fox family in Hydesville in December 1847, shortly after they moved into their rented house.

John and Margaret Fox's two daughters, Kate (only 10 years old then) and Cathie, the youngest, heard unexplained sounds and activities and they began communicating with the "spirit" by exchanging rapping sounds.

It was ascertained that the spirit's name was Charles B. Rosna, and that he had been a peddler who had stayed at the house five years previously. He had been murdered in the house and his remains were in the cellar. Later, when the cellar was dug up, no remains were found; however, 56 years later, a further discovery was made which proved beyond all doubt that someone had actually been buried in the cellar of the Fox household.

The following statement appeared in The Boston Journal on Nov. 23, 1904: 鈥淩ochester, N.Y., November 22nd, 1904: The skeleton of the man supposed to have caused the rappings first heard by the Fox sisters in 1848 has been found in the walls of the house occupied by the sisters, and clears them from the only shadow of doubt held concerning their sincerity in the discovery of spirit communication 鈥� found was an almost entire human skeleton between the earth and crumbling cellar walls and corroborates the sworn statement made by Margaret Fox, April 11, 1848.鈥�

One has to wonder what the significant differences might have been if that discovery had been made back then!

The neighbors were called in and all heard the same questions asked and answered through the exchange of "rapping" sounds. In a matter of weeks, the Fox sisters became a national sensation!

It was Capron who induced the parents of Catherine (Kate) to allow their daughter to come to Auburn and spend several weeks with his family in the home of Captain G.B. Bennet. Capron then brought them to the homes in Auburn, where the circles were conducted.

In 1855, Eliah W. Capron published in Boston his book 鈥淢odern Spiritualism,鈥� which is (still) considered a standard work on the subject. He reports in his book that the Fox sisters 鈥渋mpressed Horace Greeley, William Cullen Bryant, George Ripley, George Bancroft and James Fenimore Cooper.鈥�

By 1870 the spiritualist movement had grown, and records indicate there were over 100 mediums in the Auburn area. But it was Mary Andrews, a medium in Moravia who was being visited by such prominent people as William Smith (founder of the college in Geneva) and Judge John Worth Edmonds (member of both branches of the New York State Legislature and, for some time, president of the Senate and judge of the Supreme Court of New York).

It is assumed that because Millard Fillmore was well aware of the happenings in Moravia that it was he who may have influenced Mary Todd Lincoln to come to Moravia to see Mary Andrews. (After all, the First Lady was known to have had a s茅ance room in the White House, and it is documented that both she and her husband regularly met with mediums in that room.)

Prior to the president's assassination, Henry C. Whitney wrote his book, 鈥淟ife on the Circuit with Lincoln,鈥� and in it he writes about the President's belief in the spirit world: 鈥淗e communed often with invisible spirits, and talked with a personal God 鈥� he was a Mystic!鈥�

After Lincoln's assassination, it was Mary Todd Lincoln's trip to Moravia on Feb. 22, 1872, that helped the town's reputation as the mecca of spiritualism blossom!

After an overnight stay with Mary Andrews, Mrs. Lincoln traveled back by train to the National Hotel in Auburn, where she consulted the clairvoyant physician Dr. Hotaling. She gave the doctor 鈥渃redit of giving the best diagnosis of her case ever before given,鈥� according to The Auburn Daily Bulletin (Feb. 27, 1872). The article also reported her stay in Moravia.

The history of spiritualism in the area will be the focus of a talk I'll give at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at the History House on West Cayuga Street. The public is invited to attend this free event. Refreshments will be served.

The materials in the exhibit have been donated to the Cayuga-Owasco Lakes Historical Society and were first exhibited at the Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Auburn in 2002.

For those interested, there is another permanent exhibit at the History House that includes the personal effects of our 13th U.S. president, Millard Fillmore, and most everyone knows that there is no other place in the nation to view them except there.

Perhaps 新加坡多多开奖记录 will do another series of objects in and around Cayuga County and include a United States president being born in it, since very few counties can brag about that!

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