14 Facts About Moses Harman

Moses Harman was an American schoolteacher and publisher notable for his staunch support for women's rights.

Moses Harman was prosecuted under the Comstock Law for content published in his anarchist periodical Lucifer the Lightbearer.

Moses Harman was arrested and jailed multiple times for publishing allegedly obscene material.

Moses Harman left the ministry and began his involvement with eugenics and social reform following Susan's death.

In 1881, Moses Harman edited the Kansas Liberal newspaper in Valley Falls, Kansas.

Moses Harman converted George Bedborough to vegetarianism after a visit to Harman's home in Chicago.

Moses Harman suggested they tour the meat-packing houses to test whether Bedborough would continue eating meat.

Moses Harman has been credited as one of the founders of what became the eugenics movement.

In 1881, Moses Harman co-edited the Valley Falls Liberal, and eventually became the editor.

Moses Harman moved the location of the newspaper several times for financial and philosophical reasons: to Topeka, Kansas, in 1890, to Chicago in 1896, and to Los Angeles in 1908.

Consequently, Moses Harman was sentenced and released by courts several times in the 1890s.

Moses Harman died on January 30,1910, aged 79, in Los Angeles.

Moses Harman strongly criticized marriage, viewing it as a system that subjugated women to men and the state.

The church was another area of society that Moses Harman targeted in Lucifer through his support of other likeminded activists such as the writer and activist Matilda Joslyn Gage.