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The Harmony Society in Indiana, Wrote the Following Description of the Property 1N 18Llp the Property Is Covered Vi Th Heavy Timber -­ Oomprlaing Oaka, Beeches Eastern Illinois University The Keep Masters Theses Student Theses & Publications 1963 The aH rmony Society in Indiana George Augustus Turner AQ{NOWLEDOEMDlTS I wiah to express my appreciation to the many 1nst1 tutiona and individuals who usisted and contributed to the writing of this paper. Without their help and consideration I would not have been able to complete this thesis. The .following libraries were or particular aid and graciously off'ered their services to mes Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield. Illinois; University of' Illinois Library, Champaign, Illinois; Illinois State Survey- Of'f'ice, Champaign, Illinois; Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois; Workingman'• Inst! tute• New Harmony, Indiana; Mount Vernon Public Library, Mount Vernon, Indiana; University of Indiana Library, Bloomington, Indiana; Lilly Libl'ar,y, Bloomington, Indiana; Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Ind1anaJ Indiana State Historical Society, Indianapolis, Indiana; Wisoonsin Historical Sooiety. Madison, Wiaoons1n, and Eastern Illinoia University Booth Library, Chlll.9leston, Illinois. Ot particular ass!stsnce in securing the land records ot the Harmony Society in Posey County, Indiana was Mrs. l:sther B. P'J.nkley• County Reco:rder ot Posey County. Indiana. I am thankf'ul to Mr. Dona1d Blair oi" New Harmony, Indiana for g1 ving his comments and ideas on the HBl'Dlony Society. At the Lilly Library Mias Fa..trieda Lang was most help1ul in aiding me to exanine the Rappite manuscripts. Mrs. Francea -iv- B. Macdonald and Mrs. Hazel Hopper at the Indiana State Libraey were more than Willing to mdc:e available their materials on the Harmony Society. From Miss Caroline Durm. at the Indiana State Historioal Society I waa able to examine the Caldwell Collection. To Miss Judy Riohards ot Mattoon, Illinois• I am gratetul for the German translation o~ parts ot John A. Bole's article 1n the German Amel'ican Apna11,. It would have been difficult to obtain many of the aourcea used in writing this paper w1 thout the kind oo-operation of Miss Lee Anna J. Smock. librarian at the Booth Library, who ia in charge ot the 1ntel"•library loan department. My thanka are also extended to Mra. Susan F'lening and Mra. Dand Maurer tor typing the paper. I wi•h to thatit the members or my thesis committee, Dr. Donald Tingley, chairman, Dr. R1cbal'd Oglesby, and Dr. Rex Syndergaard, for reading the entire paper and o.f't'ering their comments. Eepeoial appreciation and gratitude ia extended to Dr. Donald Tingley, my adv1a er. for hia suggeationa, time, and encouragement during the writing of this paper. Finally• to my wite, Sonja Dagny, for her suggestions and perseverance during the research and writing of this thesis. TABLE OF CONTEF?S Page ACKNOWLliI>G&IDNTS iv OHAPT:El'l I • EUROP IAN HER[ TAGL OF THE HARMON!' SOCIEl'!' 1 II. FORMATION OF THE HARMONY SOCIErY IN P amsn.vABI A 13 III• :ESTABLI SHH.Em OF THE HARMONY SOCI El'Y IN INDIANA 43 IV. COMMUNAL LIFE AND RWGIOUI FOUNDA!I ONS OF THE HARMONY SOCI ErY 98 V• DFJ> AR'l'URE OF THE HARMONY SO 01 En' FROM I NDIA.HA 136 APP EmII cm Number ARTICLES OF .ASSOCI.Afl ON 1 l-IFMO.En: AL TO THE PRW DEJr.r BY THE SOCI E!l'Y OF HARMONY 2 CHART OF THE LAND PURCHASES OP THh RUFI TES IN POSE COUNTY, I HD'! ANA 3 M}.MORANDUM OF MISCllLLANF.mS 'l'lnNGS WERE S:mT OH OCT. 31• 1814 TO NBi HARMONY 4 MAP OF HARMONY~ INDIANA s AGR EB1ENT BBl.WEEN FRIDERI CK RAPP AND ,JOHN' CALDWELL FOR CONDUCTING THE HABMONI E STORE IN SHAWNEBl'OWli 6 POWER OF ATTORNEY GRANTED TO FR.EDEM CK RAPP 7 m BLIOGRAPHI EJROPMN liliRITAGE OF THE HARMONY SOCIETY On the 18th of Ju1y toward 8 o'clock in the evening I arrived in the v1c1n1 ty o!' Harmony. The tower clock struck eight, a pleuing indi­ cation of civilization for a traveler who has passed over eight hundred miles w1 thout having heard the stroke ot a clock. When I arrived in the town 1 t seemed as it I were in the midst of Germany. Clothing, language, manners and cus­ toms, all ~ave ranained unchanged w1 th these colonists. Thia comr.1un1 ty w1 th German cu stoma and tradi tiona as described by a traveler in 1819 was the home of the Harmony Society whieh resided 1n Harmony, Indiana from 1815 to 1825. Th.is Society waa not an ordinary community. Here under frontier conditions stood a settlement noted for its clean and orderly appearance, durable frame and brick buildings, well kept gardens, !'ert1le fields of' grain and fruit, many and varied industries, and strong religious principles. 1h!a unique German colony was achieved through communi tartan errort and became one of the most proaperou a communitarian aocietiea 1n the United States. The members or the Society under the leadership or George Rapp emigrated from Germany and .first settled in Pennsylvania i'rom 1804 to 1815. It waa 1n Pennsylvania that the .followers of George Rapp organized the Harmony Society. When the Society wa.s 1'01"'1\led• private ownership of property we.a renounced and the wealth of the members became the weal th of the Society. This communal 11ving was grounded on religious principles and the tenets and teachings of George Rn.pp. Ra.pp's theology which attracted over seven hundred .followers did not originate in America but evolved .t'rom religious condi tiona in Germany prior to their immigration to America. Ono naturally becomes curious as to the environment and background of this man George Ra9p who became a religious leader or men who were willing to leave their homeland, give up their property and become obedient to his dictates. George Rapp, a six f'oot German with Nordic features, waa born in Iptingen, Wurtemberg, on Octobu 26, 1757.2 His parents were Hens Adam and Rosina Rapp. George Rapp had a simple upbringing end a common school education of reading, writing, arithmetic and geography. Be learned the occupation of hia father, av 1neyard1st, but during the winter he was employed as a weaver. In 176) at the age of tw~ty-aix he marr1 ed Chr1 stina Benziner and they had two children, John and Rosina. In his early life George Rapp became religiously inclined and a devoted student of the Bible. In time his religious ideas corre­ sponded to the pietist ideology. 2w1111am Alterd Binds, {pepioan C~ti ea and Co-gplJ'&j;iya ~1pmg ( Chicago: Chari¥ ::ken and Company, 1. 9014 1 P• 71. In Wurtemberg and other ptlI't& of Germany in the sev­ enteenta and eighteenth centuries there occurred a great deal. of' religious turmoil. Tb.ere arose a movement called pietism which desired to rei'orm the Lutheran church. The object! ve of pietism was to preserve the doctrinal content of Martin Luther's theology. However, the pietists felt the systanatic theology and philosophy of the Lutheran church should be secondary to a more vital religion of the heart and life. The pietists opposed the laxity of' morale that was existing in Germany at that time. The universities of Germany had become bot-beds of vice and in.f1del1 ty. The professors did not atreas the c:llff'erencea between the philoaophic ideas or Pythagoras, Plato, Homer, Aristotle, and Socrates and the religious teachings of Moses and the Biblical prophets. "The h1ator1c records of the Old Testament were but myths, and the miracles ot the New Testament were but exaggerated statanents of natural :racts."3 On the Sabbath, balls, theaters, and gambling were unchecked by the church. From the church pulpi ta "the peasantry received i'requent and labored instruction on the raising o~ bees, cattle, and fruit."4 Pietism stressed the need £or active reform to a 11£e of devotion, repentance, and spiritual conversion. Worship 1n the Lutheran church J:lad become a cold formality o:f abstruse logic in expounding the gospel. George Rapp accepted. the 3Aaron Willi ams, Thze Hpon'V ~ci et:y ti Fconpm,:, Pgmsylya¢a (Pittsburgh: ~:Haven, 1f3 ),. P• 10. 4Aaron Williams, Th.e Harmony Soc1,et,:, p. 11. -4- ideas of pietism with the exception that he wanted to break away f'rom the Lutheran church; in other words, he became a separatist. The dec1a1on of Rapp not to adh8l'e to the Lutheran church was ini'luenced in part by the writings ot Spener, Bohme, Swedenborg, Jung-Stilling, Herder., and Bengel. The pietist movanent originated primarily through the efforts ot Philipp Jakob Spener ( 163.5-170.$) • Span.er was not interested in breaking away from the establish- ed church, the Lutheran church, but only in reforming 1 t. In an effort to study the Bible to gain a more sincere end consistent religious experience, Spener organized private religious meetings outside the realm or the state church. These meetinga were started as early as 1680 and were called collegia pietatis. The term p1et1stp was derived from the people who attended these religious meetings. Other leaders of the pietist movment were Jakob Bohme:> (1743.1819), Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Jung.. Stilling6 {1740-1817), Johann Gottfried von Herder {1744.i803). In Wurtemberg, Johann AJ.brecht Bengel (1687-1752) waa the leader of the pietieta. Jakob Bohme believed in religious mysticism which was a desire for an intimate communion with God. H1ator1cally, religious mysticism, Bohme said, i'l'equ ently came into being as a .5Bobme is also spelled Bohn or Bebmen. 6Jung.Stilling is a pseudonym for Johann Heinrich Jung. -5- proteat against mechanica1 and/or anthropomorphic repre- sentation of God in his relations to man and the world.
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