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Village:New Lebanon, NY Source:bios:150Search: Full Last First
id 150 firstname Alonzo lastname Hollister birthyr 1830 deathyr 1911 bio Hollister, Alonzo (1830-1911), of Mount Lebanon, was born in Adams, Berkshire Co., MA. He was admitted to the Church F. of Mt. Lebanon in May 1838, from Bennington, VT, along with his father, three younger brothers and a sister. (Other members of the Hollister family joined the Shakers later: his mother, and an older sister Rhoda.) He was put under the care of Philemon Stewart, and then of Giles Avery. He had witnessed the era of Mother's Work during his boyhood and must have been deeply moved by it, receiving a Shaker march by inspiration in 1848. The kitchen garden activities and the chores around the house did not prevent him from numerous outings and play. Later he was placed in the shoeshop; then in the garden; later yet in the herb business; then to the supervision of the extract business, taking over this task from James Vail, and becoming the chief "chemist," in 1856. Br. Alonzo became a member of the Elder's order in 1887, and moved to the Church F. when the 2nd Order closed, in 1896. He was an ardent letterwriter, and the celebrated correspondence between the Shakers and the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy started with him (in 1890). He also wrote and published many broadsides, pamphlets, several treatises on Shaker theology (about 36 are IisteQ in his name alone in Richmond, VoLl, 1977), and was a co-author, with Calvin Green, of the "Pearly Gat~ of the True Life and Doctrine for Believers in Christ...' in 1894; the 2nd and 3rd parts were compiled by Hollister alone (from 1900 to 1904). He was an avid collector and copied of thousands of pages of Shaker documents, thus assuring their survival, and making it possible for 20th C. Shaker scholars "to attribute authorship, to establish dates, and to provide the context of many a Shaker document" (Diane Sasson, 1989-1990). He was appointed elder of the Church F. on February 16, 1911, but died August 19th of the same year, at 81 years of age. villageplus Mount Lebanon. was born in Adams
Village:New Lebanon, NY Source:census:1371Search: Full Last First
id 1371 firstname Alonzo lastname Hollister fullname Alonzo Hollister eventdate Census 1860-262: birthdate 1830 cenurl https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCQ1-38D
id 2010 firstname Alonzo lastname Hollister fullname Alonzo Hollister eventdate Census 1875-159: birthdate 1830 cenurl https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNJG-PSB
Village:New Lebanon, NY Source:sni_work:1011Search: Full Last First