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Luman Walters (c. 1789 – June 2, 1860) is known for his connection with the family of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. ==Early life== Luman Walters was born in Winchester, Litchfield County, Connecticut, to John Walter and Sarah Gleason around 1789. Sometime between 1798 and 1800, the Walter family relocated to Burke, Vermont, a town founded by Luman's uncle.〔. (Digital reprint ) at Ancestry.com〕 Walters was reportedly the "son of a rich man living on the Hudson". He had "received a scientific education" and studied in Paris. Alva Beaman's daughter recalled that "After he came home he lived like a misanthrope. He had come back an infidel, believing neither in man nor God."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Signature Books » excerpt – Elizabeth Kane’s St. George Journal )〕〔Quoted in D. Michael Quinn "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View" p117〕 At an debate in the 1880s, Clark Braden alleged that Walters had mastered the arts of animal magnetism and Mesmerism.〔Discussed in Quinn p120〕〔"While acting in his primitive supernatural capacity as water witch and money digger, Smith made the acquaintance of a drunken vagabond by the name of Walters who had been a physician in Europe. This person had learned in Europe the secret of Mesmerism or animal magnetism."〕 Walter returned to the United States by 1818 and began acting the part of a physician and occult expert.〔On both the 1850 and 1860 census reports for Gorham, Ontario County, New York, Walter's profession is listed as physician. Parfitt's genealogy lists his profession as "eclectic physician." This description may refer to Walter's practice of Thomsonian medicine, which was practiced by other prominent Mormons. See eclectic medicine.〕 In that year, James Giddings, the deputy sheriff of Boscawen, New Hampshire, offered a reward for the arrest of a "transient person, calling himself Laman Walter, () has for several days past been imposing himself upon the credulity of the people in this vicinity by a pretended knowledge of magic, palmistry and conjuration". Walters was arrested for "juggling" that August in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, but escaped from jail.〔''Concord Gazette'', September 1, 1818; ''New Hampshire Patriot'', September 1, 1818.〕 In November 1819, Walter married Harriet Howard in Vermont. By 1822, Walter had apparently taken up residence in Gorham, Ontario County, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luman Walters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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