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The Ouija Board
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| Ouija Board Display Circa |
The Ouija board's past is shrouded in mystery and for years left forgotten and buried in the dusty pages of city, vital, and family records. Once described as "without doubt the most interesting, remarkable, and mysterious production of the 19th century" its own story is equally entertaining. Below details William Fuld and the Ouija board's meteoric rise in popularity. Sit back, turn the lights down low, and learn how the Ouija board forged lifelong friendships, came between two brothers, and split a family in two. The Ouija board is now a pop icon and those who manufactured it made millions. Blessing or curse? You decide.
It's impossible to separate William Fuld from the Ouija board's tale and so the question remainsDid William leave his mark on the Ouija board or did the Ouija leave its mark on William? How did a simple game born as a par
The Kennard Novelty Company
South Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland
East Pratt Street, Baltimore Maryland
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The Kennard Novelty Company was the first company in the United States to manufacture Ouija talking boards. Five men, thirty thousand dollars, and the address of South Charles Street would set into motion the perfect recipe for success, securing the Ouija board as the “Wonderful Talking Board.”
| Kennard Novelty Company's Ouija Box East Pratt Street and Branch Factory Circa - |
On October 20th , Harry Welles Rusk, Charles W. Kennard, William H. A. Maupin, Col. Washington Bowie, and John F. Green would place their signatures on the company's incorporation papers which were certified on October 30th Kennard would offer South Charles Street the site of his failing fertilizer business as its address. Bowie would come up with the majority of the initial capital for to defer manufacturing costs. In Elijah J. Bond would assign the now infamous Ouija patent (No. ,) to William H. A. Maupin and Charles W. Kennard. On February 28th Ken
Isaac Fuld
March 18th - November 18th
Isaac Fuld, the first born son of Jacob Fuld and Mary Abell, was born in the District of Columbia on March 18th His father, Jacob Fuld, a Jewish German immigrant, left Büdingen, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany with his parents and siblings and arrived in the United States on September 7th, His mother Mary Abell was born and raised in York, Pennsylvania. Jacob and Mary were married on September 12, in Reading Pennsylvania. Though Jacob was raised in a Jewish home, it appears he eventually left his faith. From all accounts and church records Jacob joined the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church on December 31st, which his wife Mary had joined some five years earlier. Prior to that Isaac joined the same church on March 30, , at the age of Questions still surround whether Isaac and his siblings were raised in a Jewish or Christian household. Likely Jacob married outside his faith and eventually decided to join a Christian church. Jacob did not become a church member until after his father's death. Whichever household Isaac was raised in it was a large one.
Isaac Fuld was one of ten children, four boys, and six girls. Listed from oldest to youn
Not Dead Yet
Charles Kennard always had his eye out for a chance to make a buck, but he was not the greatest, nor the luckiest, businessman. It appears that he wasn’t the most honest guy, either. The second child of a successful Delaware merchant, Kennard moved to Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the late s after developing “secret” bone-mix recipes for fertilizer. (In fairness, everyone in the fertilizer business claimed a “secret” recipe.) Following initial success, his Chestertown plant went to auction due to a combination of drought, competition, and debt. But all was not lost. A Prussian immigrant named E.C. Reiche kept an office next to Kennard’s on the first floor of the four-story, wood-frame hotel in Chestertown’s tiny business district. A furniture maker turned coffin maker turned undertaker—not an atypical career progression for the day—Reiche was also an inveterate tinkerer and Kennard had another plan.
Back story: Two generations earlier, a pair of girls in upstate New York named the Fox sisters, claiming to be mediums able to interpret mysterious “knocks” from the other side, had launched a spiritualist movement that continued to hold sway across the country. In fact
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