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John Humphrey Noyes (September 3, 1811 – April 13, 1886) was an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded the Putney, Oneida and Wallingford Communities, and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage".
John Humphrey Noyes (born Sept. 3, 1811, Brattleboro, Vt., U.S.—died April 13, 1886, Niagara Falls, Ont., Can.) was the founder of the Oneida Community, the most successful of the utopian socialist communities in the United States.
May 17, 2018 · NOYES, JOHN HUMPHREY (1811 – 1886), American religious reformer and founder of the Oneida Community. Born to a prominent family in Brattleboro, Vermont, John Humphrey Noyes graduated from Dartmouth College and attended Andover and Yale theological seminaries, studying under Nathaniel W. Taylor.
The Oneida Community (/ oʊ ˈ n aɪ d ə / oh-NYE-də) was a perfectionist religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes and his followers in 1848 near Oneida, New York.
Oneida Community, utopian religious community that developed out of a Society of Inquiry established by John Humphrey Noyes and some of his disciples in Putney, Vt., U.S., in 1841. As new recruits arrived, the society turned into a socialized community. Noyes had experienced a religious conversion.
John Noyes, son of Humphrey, and father of the subject of this history, was born at Atkinson in 1764. Making the most of his small opportunities for education, he fitted himself for the teaching profession.
John Humphrey Noyes: Philosopher of Bible Communism. David White contemplates a life of sex and sermons. Those who know his name at all associate John Humphrey Noyes (1811-86) with the Oneida Community, an experiment in communal living in the tradition of Christian Perfectionism.
