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• Judge John Worth Edmonds. one of the most influential early American Spiritualists. After a great public career, as a 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, he resigned the latter position on account of the outcry raised against his Spiritualistic beliefs and, especially, his support of the Fox sisters.
  
• Arthur Conan Doyle. Just as Andrew Jackson Davis was called the "John the Baptist" of Modern Spiritualism, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was called the "St. Paul" of Spiritualism. He was a prolific writer on the subject and an avid proponent. And, of course, he is renowned for his Sherlock Holmes stories.
  
• Story of Spiritualism Good potted history of Spiritualism with dates and major personalities.
  
• Spiritualism from Anomalies Historical overview
  
• Spiritualism in the Victorian era Short article on Victorian Spiritualism by Glenn Everett, Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee at Martin - from the Victorian Web
  
• Joseph Rodes Buchanan. an American scientist, Faculty Dean and Professor in the Eclectic Medical Institute, in Covington, Kentucky, and research pioneer in psychometry. It was Joseph Buchanan who, in 1842, coined the term "psychometry" as meaning the "measuring of the soul."
  
• Spiritualism - The Hydesville Events. A brief historical perspective on the founding of the movement known as Modern Spiritualism, presented by the First Spiritual Temple, Brookline, Massachusetts.
  
• Phrenology, Mesmerism, and Spiritualism Victorian England's fascination with pseudo-sciences such as phrenology, mesmerism, and spiritualism as a cultural phenomena. By Paul Roach.
  
• Sir Oliver Lodge. a world-renouned physicist and a fearless champion of survival. One could not really call him a proponent of the Spiritualist Movement, but he was, surely, an avid believer in Spiritualist concepts.
  
• Ephemera Primary sources for the historical study of 19th century American Spiritualism.