John Otis Wattles was a son of Erastus and Sarah (Thomas) Wattles. He, along with his older brother Augustus, attended the Oneida Institute in Whitestown, NY, and the Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was a student of Rev. Lyman Beecher. He became an active participant in many social reform movements of the mid 19th century--abolitionism, women's suffrage, diet reform and communitarianism. His activities in the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, a communitarian movement, are chronicled in "God's Government Begun" (Indiana University Press, 1995), by Thomas D. Hamm. He married a Hicksite Quaker, Esther Whinery. They were the parents of three daughters: Celestia, Harmonia, and Theano. In the turbulent days preceding the Civil War, John moved his family to Kansas where he and his brother Augustus attempted to form a community called Moneka. John Otis Wattles died at Moneka of "brain fever" and was originally interred there. After John's death the Moneka settlement failed when its founders were unable to provide settlers clear title to the land, since the land was actually part of the Miami Indian reservation. Moneka was abandoned, and John's body was reinterred here.
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From contributor #47849893:
Found him here: http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/content/john-otis-wattles
John Otis Wattles was a son of Erastus and Sarah (Thomas) Wattles. He, along with his older brother Augustus, attended the Oneida Institute in Whitestown, NY, and the Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was a student of Rev. Lyman Beecher. He became an active participant in many social reform movements of the mid 19th century--abolitionism, women's suffrage, diet reform and communitarianism. His activities in the Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, a communitarian movement, are chronicled in "God's Government Begun" (Indiana University Press, 1995), by Thomas D. Hamm. He married a Hicksite Quaker, Esther Whinery. They were the parents of three daughters: Celestia, Harmonia, and Theano. In the turbulent days preceding the Civil War, John moved his family to Kansas where he and his brother Augustus attempted to form a community called Moneka. John Otis Wattles died at Moneka of "brain fever" and was originally interred there. After John's death the Moneka settlement failed when its founders were unable to provide settlers clear title to the land, since the land was actually part of the Miami Indian reservation. Moneka was abandoned, and John's body was reinterred here.
From contributor #47849893:
Found him here: http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/content/john-otis-wattles
From contributor #47849893:
Found him here: http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/content/john-otis-wattles
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