The "Community" Movement in Jay County, Indiana, and in Clark, Logan, Clinton, and Champaign County

Collection — Box: 30

Identifier: SC-347

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a typescript with extracts of letters of the Hilles and Dugdale families, Hicksite Quakers in Clark and Columbiana counties, Ohio, and Jay County, Indiana, concerning attempts to organize utopian communities in Champaign County, Ohio, and Jay County between 1843 and 1846. The communities were an outgrowth of the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, organized in Oakland, Ohio, in 1842.

Dates

1844-1846
Other: Majority of material found in 1844-1846
Other: Date acquired: 10/01/2012

Conditions Governing Access

Unrestricted.

Conditions Governing Use

The location of the original manuscripts is unknown.

Biographical or Historical Information

The central figure in the collection is William H. Hilles (1810-1882), a resident of the Prairie Home Community in Champaign County, Ohio.

Note written by Thomas Hamm

Extent

1.00 Folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Letters relating mainly to the attempts by Hicksite Quakers to establish utopian communities at Prairie Home in Champaign County, Ohio, and in Clinton County, Ohio.

Arrangement Note

Chronological.

Custodial History

The compilation was part of the collection of Willard C. Heiss of Indianapolis. He apparently received it from Dwight Smith of Franklin, Indiana, a descendant of the Hilles and Dugdale families.