Vanguard.
Devoted to Spiritualism, Practical Reform, and Progressive Literature. A Free Weekly Reform Paper / A Spirited, Radical, Reform Weekly.
1857—1859 Weekly, then semimonthly, then monthly
Dayton, OH, Richmond, IN, Cleveland, OH. Language: English.
Publisher: William Denton, editor and proprietor; Elizabeth M. Foote Denton, Alfred Cridge, Anne Denton Cridge. Editor: Alfred Cridge and Anne Denton Cridge, and William Denton and Elizabeth Denton.
Succeeds: Spiritual Messenger (Cincinnati)(bought list)
1/1 March 7, 1857-1859. $1.00 a year. Devoted to psychometry, spiritualism, and a form of anarchical socialism. Denton (1823-1883) was a geologist, freethinker, controversialist, and enthusiasm for psychometry (the mental reading of vibrations and emanations from persons and objects), a science he had learned of from the works of J.R. Buchanan. He had earlier helped edit The Social Revolutionist. See the note under Buchanan's Journal of Man. His most famous book in that regard was The Soul of Things, or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries (Wellesley, MA: Mrs. E.M.F. Denton, 1873), which, among other things, unveils the prehistory of the human race. Denton was also the first person to attempt to take paraffin casts of materialized spirits. Annie Cridge (1825-1875), his sister, was a noted psychometrist and author of a famous pamphlet on "Man's Rights," and it was her powers that converted Denton to spiritualism and psychometry.