Background
Wayland was born on April 26, 1854 in Versailles, Indiana, United States; the son of John B. Wayland and Micha Wayland. His father and four of his brothers and sisters died during a cholera epidemic when he was about four months old.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work.
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Wayland was born on April 26, 1854 in Versailles, Indiana, United States; the son of John B. Wayland and Micha Wayland. His father and four of his brothers and sisters died during a cholera epidemic when he was about four months old.
Wayland was a pupil to a printer in his home town.
Wayland began his career as a printer's apprentice on the Versailles Gazette. In 1874, he held a position of an owner of that newspaper. In 1893, Julius began publishing the radical journal "The Coming Nation", which quickly became the most popular socialist newspaper in America. Also he helped found a utopian settlement, the Ruskin Colony in Dickson County, Tennessee.
In 1895, Wayland moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he became a publisher of socialist journal "Appeal to Reason". Then in 1897, he moved to Girard, Kansas. The journal "Appeal to Reason" had more than 150,000 subscribers by 1902, making it the fourth most popular weekly in the United States. As the popularity of "Appeal to Reason" increased, however, so too did attacks on Wayland. His offices were repeatedly broken into in an effort to find evidence of criminal activity. The Los Angeles Times frequently published articles claiming that Wayland had been involved in cases of arson and murder, and in 1912 reported that Wayland was guilty of seducing an orphaned girl of fourteen who subsequently died during an abortion.
Wayland was depressed by the death of his wife and the continuing smear campaign against him and committed suicide by shooting himself with a gun on November 10, 1912 in his Girard home.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
2012Wayland was a Midwestern United States socialist during the Progressive Era. His writings created tensions with home-town conservatives and he fled Versailles to avoid lynching.
On October 16, 1877 Julius Wayland married Etta Bevan. They had a child, Walter Harry Bevan Wayland. In 1901, he married Pearl Hunt Wayland. They had a child, Olive Wayland Sourdry.
