Acknowledgments

The project leader expresses his sincere gratitude to the many individuals and organizations which have provided access to information and other forms of assistance in support of this project. First and foremost, I am grateful to the Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, for its support of this research as a sabbatical project.

I am also especially grateful to the many individuals who have assisted significantly to date, including the Norris Family of Waltonville, Illinois, and Ms. JoAnna Johnson, of Carbondale, Illinois.

Organizations (in alphabetical order)

Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, Archives and Periodicals Departments, Cambridge, MA

Carbondale Public Library, Carbondale, IL

Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, Carbondale, IL

First Unitarian Church of Alton, Alton, IL

Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL

Jackson County Historical Society, Murphysboro, IL

John A. Logan Museum, Murphysboro, IL

Meadville Theological School of Lombard College, Chicago, IL (archives and library)

Prairie Historians Society, Waltonville, IL

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIUC) Morris Library

Illinois Regional Archive Depository, Carbondale

Stinson Memorial Library, Anna, IL

Waltonville Universalist Church, Waltonville, IL

Bibliography (including periodicals)

Please note: sources specific to a given congregation will be referenced within the information on that congregation.

Unitarian Sources

Bartlett, Laile. Bright Galaxy: Ten Years of Unitarian Fellowships. Beacon Press, Boston: 1960.

Crompton, Arnold. Unitarianism in the Middle West: From the First Missionary Ventures to the Issue in the West. B.Div. Dissertation, Meadville Theological School, Chicago: 1939.

Douthit, Jasper. Jasper Douthit's Story: the Autobiography of a Pioneer. American Unitarian Association, Boston: 1909.

Douthit, Jasper L. The Story of a Unitarian Missionary in Southern Illinois. (Address delivered before the Women's Alliances of Chicago. Published by the Chicago Associate Alliance, Chicago, IL: 1898.

Lyttle, Charles. Freedom Moves West: a History of the Western Unitarian Conference 1852-1952. Beacon Press, Boston: 1952.

Stephens, Walter E. A Sociological Study of Unitarianism in Illinois. B.Div. Dissertation, Meadville Theological School, Chicago: 1948.

Wright, Conrad. A Stream of Light: a Short History of American Unitarianism (2^nd ed.). Skinner House Books, Boston: 1989.

Universalist Sources

Cassara, Ernest (ed.). Universalism in America: a Documentary History of a Liberal Faith (revised edition). Skinner House Books, Boston: 1997.

Debate on Univeralism and the Resurrection of the Dead. John R. Daily, ed. Daily and Sons, Indianapolis: 1909.

Eddy, Richard. Universalism in America: a History. Vol. 2: 1801-1886. Universalist Publishing House, Boston: 1886.

Howe, Charles A. The Larger Faith: a Short History of American Universalism. Skinner House Books, Boston: 1993.

McGlauflin,William H. What the Universalist Church Is Doing: 1907-1909. Universalist Publishing House, Boston & Chicago: 1909.

Miller, Russell E. The Larger Hope: (volume 1) the First Century of the Universalist Church in America 1770-1870. Unitarian Universalist Association, Boston: 1979.

Miller, Russell E. The Larger Hope: (volume 2) the Second Century of the Universalist Church in America 1870-1970. Unitarian Universalist Association, Boston:

The Universalist. a digest weekly news published in Chicago and Cincinnati,

The Universalist Companion. (annual directory) Universalist Publishing House, Boston: many issues between 1835 and 1960 consulted.

Williams, George Huntston. American Universalism (4^th ed.). Skinner House Books and the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society, Boston: 2002.

Joint Unitarian and Universalist Sources

Bumbaugh, David E. Unitarian Universalism: a Narrative History.  Meadville Lombard Press, Chicago: 2000.

Hitchings, Catherine F. Universalist and Unitarian Women Ministers.Journal of the Universalist Historical Society, vol. X, 1975. 

Robinson, David. The Unitarians and the Universalists. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT: 1985.

Unitarian Universalist Association Directory. (annual directory). Unitarian Universalist Assocation, Boston: multiple issues consulted.

General Sources

Davis, James E. Frontier Illinois. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN: 1998.

Gaustad, Edwin S. “Religion in America: History and Historiography.” Pamphlet 260, American Historical Association, Washington, DC: 1973.

Howard, Robert P. Illinois: a History of the Prairie State. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, MI: 1972.

Meinig, D. W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Vol. 2, Continental America, 1800-1867. Yale University Press, New Haven: 1986.

Park Hall: a Symbol of Freedom in America. New Past Press, Friendship, WI: 2004.

Russell, Lonnie, Richard Goldstein, and Les Winkeler. Enjoy Southern Illinois: a Complete Recreational Guide. Cache River Press, Vienna, IL: 1994.

Smith, Timothy L. Revivalism and Social Reform in Mid-Nineteenth Century America. Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN: 1957.

Sweet, William Warren (ed.). Religion on the American Frontier, 1783-1850, Vol. 3, the Congregationalists. Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., New York, 1964.

Sweet, William Warren. Revivalism in America: Its Origin, Growth, and Decline. Peter Smith, Gloucester, MA: 1965.