. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . lived the famous Fox Sisters, Margaret(1836-1893) and Katharine, whose spiritualistic demonstra-tions became known in 1850 as the Rochester Rappings,The city has been a centre for American spiritualists eversince. Modern spiritualism is generally dated from the demonstrationsproduced by the Fox Sisters. These exhibitions consisted of theusual spiritualistic phenomena: table turning, spirit rappin
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . lived the famous Fox Sisters, Margaret(1836-1893) and Katharine, whose spiritualistic demonstra-tions became known in 1850 as the Rochester Rappings,The city has been a centre for American spiritualists eversince. Modern spiritualism is generally dated from the demonstrationsproduced by the Fox Sisters. These exhibitions consisted of theusual spiritualistic phenomena: table turning, spirit rapping and themoving of large bodies by invisible means. The sisters gave publicseances through the country, and interest in spiritualism spread toEngland. In 1888 Margaret made a confession of imposture, whichshe later retracted. She claimed to be the wife of Dr. Elisha KentKane, the Arctic explorer, and published a book of his letters underthe title of the Love Life of Dr. Kane. Kane had begun his careeras an explorer when he was appointed surgeon and naturalist forthe Grinnell expedition in 1850, which set out to search for Sir JohnFranklin, who was lost somewhere in the North. After spending 16. Kate Fox (From a daguerreotype) The demonstrations of the famousFox sisters began in the followingway: In 1847 the Fox family moved toa house near Rochester believed to behaunted, from which tenant after ten-ant had moved out, alarmed by myste-liuus rappings. The Foxes did nothear these sounds until 1848, and thenKate, hardly more than a child, beganquestioning the rappings, and havingopened what seemed to be intelligentcommunication, suggested the use ofthe alphabet. That was the beginningof what spiritualists call the science ofmaterialization. The exhibitions con-sisted of the usual phenomena, tableturning, spirit rapping and the movingof large bodies by invisible two young women gave publicseances throughout the country, arous-ing an interest that spread to Eng-land. Tn 18
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