Eddy Family

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[http://books.google.com/books?id=ruzy2w1ba0kC&printsec=titlepage#PPA19,M1 Side-by-side drawings of William H Eddy and Horatio G Eddy]
 
[http://books.google.com/books?id=ruzy2w1ba0kC&printsec=titlepage#PPA19,M1 Side-by-side drawings of William H Eddy and Horatio G Eddy]
  
According to Olcott, "...after the Rochester knockings of 1847 had ushered in the new dispensation of Spiriualism..." the father hired "three or four" of the children out to a showman who took them around various US cities and even to London.  Some town names are mentioned "Lynn, Mass; South Danvers; West Cleveland, Ohio; Moravia, NY; Waltham, Mass; Dunville, Canada".
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According to [[Henry Steel Olcott|Olcott]], "...after the Rochester knockings of 1847 had ushered in the new dispensation of Spiritualism..." the father hired "three or four" of the children out to a showman who took them around various US cities and even to London.  Some town names are mentioned "Lynn, Mass; South Danvers; West Cleveland, Ohio; Moravia, NY; Waltham, Mass; Dunville, Canada".
  
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ruzy2w1ba0kC&printsec=titlepage#PPA19,M1 Drawing of the Eddy Homestead]
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ruzy2w1ba0kC&printsec=titlepage#PPA19,M1 Drawing of the Eddy Homestead]
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=ruzy2w1ba0kC&printsec=titlepage#PPA159,M1 Here on page 159], the father Zephaniah is given a particular brutal mentality.
 
[http://books.google.com/books?id=ruzy2w1ba0kC&printsec=titlepage#PPA159,M1 Here on page 159], the father Zephaniah is given a particular brutal mentality.
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By 1874, the Eddy family had built a sort-of exhibition room that they called a "circle-room", in their house, where they gave their demonstrations of their powers.  William Eddy was the main attraction.  As Olcott reports, he would enter a small cabinet (like a modern-day closet) and then issuing out of the cabinet at various intervals would come all sorts of re-embodied people lately or long dead.  Olcott reports these people were of both sexes, all heights from 6'3" to children as young as 1 year.
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=ruzy2w1ba0kC&printsec=titlepage#PPA247,M1 One spirit "Mrs Eaton" gives a prediction] that on "... 19 Sep 1875, in the Eddy circle-room, spirits would materialize themselves in a brightly lighted room, and deliver orations as in life, with persons sitting all about them on the platform."
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==Sources==
 
==Sources==
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ruzy2w1ba0kC ''People from the Other World''], by [[Henry Steel Olcott]]. American Publishing Company, Hartford, Connecticut. 1875. 492 pages. Most of this book (the first 400 pages) are dedicated to describing the events at the Eddy Homestead in Chittenden, Vermont, from Aug 1874 to Dec 1874.
 
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ruzy2w1ba0kC ''People from the Other World''], by [[Henry Steel Olcott]]. American Publishing Company, Hartford, Connecticut. 1875. 492 pages. Most of this book (the first 400 pages) are dedicated to describing the events at the Eddy Homestead in Chittenden, Vermont, from Aug 1874 to Dec 1874.
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