(Twilight Hours, Or, Leisure Moments of an Artist by Edwar...)
Twilight Hours, Or, Leisure Moments of an Artist by Edward Augustus Brackett.
This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1845 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
(If not beings from another life, what are they? To abando...)
If not beings from another life, what are they? To abandon these spiritual phenomena to credulity, is to commit a treason against human reason. "Nevertheless, we see them always reflected and always reappearing. They date not their advent from yesterday." - Victory Hugo.
Contents: A Glance Behind the Curtain; Exposures of Mediums; Public Seances; The Attitude of Scientists; Public Opinion; Conclusion. (non illustrated)
Edward Augustus Brackett was an American sculptor. He is best remembered by his portrait busts of famous people.
Background
Edward Augustus Brackett was born on October 1, 1818, in Vassalboro, Maine. He was a descendant of Richard Brackett who settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1629, and a son of Reuben Brackett and Eliza (Starkey) Brackett.
His parents were natives of Vassalboro, and members of the Society of Friends. His father was a farmer, clockmaker, and nurseryman.
Education
Edward Brackett was educated in the common schools of Vassalboro and at the Friends' School in Providence, Rhode Island. His father moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, and thence to Cincinnati in 1835. There Edward cut blocks for printing and began the study of art.
Career
In 1839, two years after his mother's death, Edward Brackett went to New York City, and a few months later to Washington, D. C. , where he modeled a bust of Senator Tallmadge. Returning to his Cincinnati home, he was commissioned to make a bust of William Henry Harrison. In 1841, he bought a tract of wooded land at Winchester, then part of South Woburn, Massachusetts, and there built a house after his own plans. A studio in Boston was opened in the same year.
In 1869, he was appointed one of the commissioners on Land Fisheries and in 1873, he abandoned his other activities to devote his attention to the science of pisciculture. He was chairman of the commission for twenty-seven years during which time he made annual reports.
(Twilight Hours, Or, Leisure Moments of an Artist by Edwar...)
Interests
Brackett's interests further included spiritualism and poetry. He did not limit his activities, however, to the field of his main interest, but is said to have always had some outside activities, such as the rearing of bees or the cultivation of winter grapes in hothouses. He also experimented in raising Mongolian pheasants, quail, and grouse for the purpose of stocking the state of Massachusetts.
Brackett also served for one year in the Civil War as first lieutenant and battalion quartermaster of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry. Shortly after the war, he became interested in the habits of fish and their increase by artificial propagation, which interest brought him to the attention of the newly appointed Fish Commission of Massachusetts.
Connections
In 1842, Edward Augustus Brackett married Amanda, daughter of Zaccheus Folger of Cincinnati, who died in 1871, leaving him two sons and two daughters.
In the following year, he married Elizabeth F. , daughter of James B. Bellville, of Mount Washington, Ohio, by whom he had one daughter.