Edward Bellamy (1850 - 1898)

Born 26 Mar 1850 in Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Emma Augusta (Sanderson) Bellamy — married 30 May 1882 in Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

Died 22 May 1898 at age 48 in Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.

After working as a journalist and writing several unremarkable novels, Bellamy published Looking Backward in 1888. Looking Backward was one of the most commercially successful books published in the United States in the 19th century, and it especially appealed to a generation of intellectuals alienated from the dark side of Gilded Age. In the early 1890s, Bellamy established a newspaper known as The New Nation and began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging Populist Party. He published Equality, a sequel to Looking Backward, in 1897, and died the following year.

He was the cousin of Francis Bellamy who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.

Sources

"Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXCN-S7G : 11 March 2018), Edward Bellamy, 26 Mar 1850, Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts; citing reference ID #255, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,420,832.

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH6V-J88 : 15 August 2017), Edward Bellamy in entry for K Rufus Bellamy, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 287, sheet 222B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0534; FHL microfilm 1,254,534.

"Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW1J-XC3 : 24 May 2018), Edward Bellamy and Emma A. Sanderson, 30 May 1882; citing Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,432,995.

"Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHMN-49P : 10 February 2018), Edward Bellamy, 22 May 1898; citing Chicopee Falls, reference p 73 no. 2833; FHL microfilm 2,027,070.

"Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4FQ-RYZ : 25 May 2018), Edward Bellamy in entry for Paul Bellamy and Marguerite S Stark, 7 Jul 1908; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,509.

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