1. Charles Knowlton was an American physician and writer.
12 Facts About Charles Knowlton
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Charles Knowlton's parents were Stephen and Comfort Knowlton; his grandfather Ezekiel Knowlton was a captain in the revolution and a long-time state legislator.
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Charles Knowlton married Stuart's daughter, Tabitha, and his condition was instantly cured.
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Charles Knowlton supplemented his education by digging up and dissecting corpses.
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Charles Knowlton failed to sell any, but probably visited local freethinkers like Robert Dale Owen.
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Charles Knowlton named his second son Stephen Owen, after his father and his friend.
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Charles Knowlton was convinced Modern Materialism would make him as famous as John Locke, whom he quotes on the title page.
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In 1832, Charles Knowlton moved his family and medical practice to Ashfield, Massachusetts.
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Charles Knowlton had written a little book entitled, The Fruits of Philosophy, or the Private Companion of Young Married People, and had been showing it to his patients.
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Charles Knowlton was prosecuted and fined in Taunton, Massachusetts for the book.
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Abner Kneeland printed a second edition of Fruits of Philosophy in Boston in 1832, allowing it a wider circulation than the few closely guarded copies Charles Knowlton had been lending to patients.
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Charles Knowlton contributed several articles to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, as well as Kneeland's freethought paper, the Boston Investigator.