{"id":7059,"date":"2014-01-19T21:43:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T05:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T20:52:14","slug":"amvegsoc1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/amvegsoc1850\/","title":{"rendered":"American Vegetarian Society 1850 &amp; Remembering Rynn Berry &#8211; by Martin Rowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1850-newspaper-front-page.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7127 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1850-newspaper-front-page.jpg\" alt=\"1850-newspaper-front-page\" width=\"549\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1850-newspaper-front-page.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1850-newspaper-front-page-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Daily Evening Transcript ~ Boston, Massachusetts ~ Monday, May 20, 1850<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1850_580.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1850_580-426x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1850_580\" width=\"426\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1850_580-426x1024.jpg 426w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1850_580-125x300.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1850_580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The editorial is a journalist&#8217;s &#8216;take&#8217; on the inaugural meeting of\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The American Vegetarian Society<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0of Wednesday 15th &amp; Thursday 16th May 1850!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Quite a cutting \/ sarcastic piece of journalism! &#8230;&#8230;but we are are very glad that it was written.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Prior to today, this has appeared nowhere else on the Internet. <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">This is the last item which we were discussing with our friend Rynn Berry, before he \u00a0recently left us.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hOLuD4HuPMU\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rynn Berry discussing the veg history of &#8211;<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">New York, the US<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; &amp; also this 1850 meeting.<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2012<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"Next Veggie Pride Parade NYC will take place Sunday, March 30, 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.veggieprideparade.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;\"><b>~ The Next Veggie Pride Parade NYC<br \/>\nwill take place Sunday, March 30, 2014 &#8211; click HERE for more details ~<\/b><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Underneath this we are posting Martin Rowe&#8217;s piece in which he remembers Rynn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">We have embedded several links into this post, to assist scholars.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/remembering-vegetarian-pioneers-henry-s-salt-ernest-bell\/\" title=\"In 1934 Henry S. Salt originally suggested the establishment of the Ernest Bell Library as a fitting memorial to him. In this Library the literature of vegetarianism and all the other humanitarian movements in which Mr. Bell was so deeply interested would be collected and made available.\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>The Ernest Bell Library<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>has original books &amp; papers by several of the people who attended this 1850 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>They all had very strong links with the London, UK &#8216;vegans&#8217; of the period.<\/p>\n<p>The original newspaper was found in the collection of a US dealer &#8211; it only arrived at the <strong>Ernest Bell Library<\/strong> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the meeting &#8216;Dr. Nichols&#8217; &#8211; Thomas Low Nichols &amp; his wife Mary Gove Nichols moved to London. There they opened London&#8217;s first ever vegetarian restaurant\u00a0in 1879, \u2018The Alpha\u2019, (In future posts we will share copies of some of the first reviews &amp; the menu cards of \u00a0\u2019The Alpha\u2019.)<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrysalt.co.uk\/friends\/ernest-bell\/after-fifty-years\" title=\"\u201cWhat led you to become a vegetarian?\u201d I asked him. \u201cIt was a review in The Spectator, by Dr. T. L. Nichols\u2019 book, \u2018How to live on 6d. a day,\u2019\u201d \"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><strong>Ernest Bell<\/strong> <\/a>switched to vegetarianism in 1874 after reading about one of Dr. Nichols&#8217; pamphlets.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The 1850 article transcribed &#8211;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The latest &#8220;wrinkle&#8221; here, in the way of meetings, since the Anti-Slavery assemblage, which was broken up by Rynders and his merry men, has been a Convention of &#8220;Vegetarians,&#8221; as they called themselves, who met at Clinton Hall on Wednesday and Thursday last. At first I supposed this must be a gathering of enterprising agriculturists for the improvement of the breed of pumpkins, cabbages and turnips. But it seems a &#8220;vegetarian&#8221; is one who confines himself to vegetable diet, and denounces all meat-eaters in the same terms of frantic denunciation that Garrison &amp; Co. employ towards the slaveholders. The Vegetarians hail chiefly from the city and State &#8220;of notions.&#8221; The leaders appear to have been Sylvester Graham, the bran-bread man, Dr. Alcott, who presided, Dr. Joel Shew and Rev Messrs Metcalf and Wellington. At one time the harmony of the meeting threatened to be seriously disturbed. Dr. Wieting, the physiological lecturer, ventured to express his dissent from the theory of the Vegetarians, and remarked that a purely vegetable diet was not conducive to the development of a full-grown man.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Hereupon Mr. Graham, the ardor of whose temperament does not seem to have been cooled by his cauliflowers, rose and flatly told Dr. Wieting, that, in a certain statement, he <em>lied<\/em>. For a vegetarian this was certainly rather hot-blooded! Dr. Wieting rose to retaliate, where-upon great confusion ensued, in which the vegetarians by no means displayed that &#8220;paradisaical temperance, purity and peace,&#8221; which they had been vaunting in their resolutions as the infallible effects of a vegetable diet. On the contrary the beef-eaters seemed decidedly the meekest people present. Even the female vegetarians (ancient vestals in bonnets of slate-colored silk) displayed far more excitement than was warranted under presumption of confinement to parsnips and potatoes in their diet. The Vegetarians adopted a string &#8211; not of onions &#8211; but of resolutions, by which it appears they are determined to <em>agitate<\/em>; and not to allow us to eat our hot steaks in quiet.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Evening_Transcript\" title=\"Boston Evening Transcript\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><strong>Boston Evening Transcript<\/strong><\/a> was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, published from July 24, 1830, to April 30, 1941.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Mentioned in the 1850 editorial piece &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_89616\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaiah_Rynders\" title=\"Isaiah Rynders\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em; color: #008000;\"><strong>Rynders and his merry men, <\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Rynders<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> = Isiah Rynders &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By the end of the decade, he was considered to be the de facto leader of the Five Points street gangs and was often requested by authorities to use his influence to cease rioting and gang-related violence which the police were unable to stop. He was a particularly important figure in civil disturbances against abolitionists during the period encountering such people as Frederick Douglass and Abby Gibbons. On one occasion, Wendell Phillips was stopped from speaking at the Broadway Tabernacle when Rynders publicly threatened that he and his men would &#8220;wreck the building and mob the audience&#8221;. Henry Ward Beecher invited Phillips to speak at Plymouth Church and, when a mob led by Rynders followed Phillips, he and his followers were met by a group of well-armed men who defended the building. It was during this meeting that Phillips not only spoke out against slavery but also of the corruption of Tammany Hall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Lloyd_Garrison\" title=\"William Lloyd Garrison\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Garrison &amp; Co. <\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Garrison<\/strong> =\u00a0William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n<p>A prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted &#8220;immediate emancipation&#8221; of slaves in the United States. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the woman suffrage movement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_nicknames\" title=\"City of Notions\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8216;the city &amp; State of notions&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8211; &#8216;City of Notions&#8217; was a nickname for Boston.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_89616\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylvester_Graham\" title=\"Sylvester Graham\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Sylvester Graham<\/span><\/a>, the bran-bread man, <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The Reverend Sylvester Graham (July 5, 1794 \u2013 September 11, 1851)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_89616\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Alcott\" title=\"William Andrus Alcott\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">Dr. Alcott, who presided,<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; William Andrus Alcott (August 6, 1798 \u2013 March 29, 1859)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~godfreyshewfamily\/index.htm?ssmain=p29.htm;\" title=\"Joel Shew\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Dr. Joel Shew<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0(13 November 1816 &#8211; 6 October 1855)<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_89616\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Rev Messrs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/history\/usa19\/metcalfe.html\" title=\"William Metcalfe\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">Metcalf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uumanchester.org\/history0.aspx\" title=\"O. H. Wellington\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">Wellington<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Rev.William Metcalfe (1788-1862) &amp;\u00a0Rev. O.H. Wellington of Manchester, N. H. &amp; Boston.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_89616\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mausoleums.com\/portfolio\/wieting-mausoleum\/\" title=\"John M. Wieting\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">Dr. Wieting<\/a>, the physiological lecturer<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211;\u00a0Dr. John M. Wieting \u00a0(1817-1888) a medical doctor, made his fortune in real estate, but achieved fame as a lecturer.<\/p>\n<pre><strong style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/remembering-vegetarian-pioneers-henry-s-salt-ernest-bell\/\" title=\"The Ernest Bell LIbrary\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ernest Bell Library<\/a><\/strong>.<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/london-vegans-meeting-in-1856-elizabeth-and-william-horsell-plus-many-of-their-friends\/\" title=\"1856 London Vegan Meeting\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click<\/a> for a post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/london-vegans-meeting-in-1856-elizabeth-and-william-horsell-plus-many-of-their-friends\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London&#8217;s vegans meeting together<\/a> in the 1850s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87843\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Additional background information about the 1850 inaugural meeting of the American Vegetarian Society.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/congress\/1850\/letter.html\" title=\"1850 Meeting Ad on www.ivu.org\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">Announcing the meeting &#8211;<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/congress\/1850\/letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">TO JAMES SIMPSON Esq., and his coadjutors of the VEGETARIAN SOCIETY<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87841\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87839\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">BRETHREN, &#8211; In the judgement of Mr. Metcalfe, of Philadelphia ; Dr. Shew, Messrs. Fowler and Wells, of New York; Dr. Jennings, of Ohio; and myself, &#8211; with sundry others who have been consulted on the subject, it is expedient to hold an American Vegetarian Convention, in the City if New York, on the 15th May next, for the purpose of originating an American Vegetarian Society; and, as the time is not very far distant, we beg officially to invite you, or your delegates, to attend the same, if convenient. Mr. Metcalfe and myself have plans to present to the Convention; and it would doubtless forward the cause of Vegetarianism, if a delegation could attend from the mother country.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">We are, dear sirs,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">Yours with esteem and love,<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">William A. Alcott. William Metcalfe.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/congress\/1850\/history.html\" title=\"VEGETARIANISM IN THE UNITED STATES by Dr. Wm. A. Alcott on www.ivu.org\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><strong>Reflecting on vegetarianism on the US &#8211; leading up to the meeting<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/congress\/1850\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After much consultation, therefore, it has been thought advisable to call a convention of these scattered friends of vegetarianism. They are to meet in May, 1850, in the city of New York, for mutual deliberation. Individuals from all parts of the Union are expected there, and it is fondly hoped from foreign countries, especially from the flourishing vegetarian society in England, that now numbers 500 members. The writer of the above, though unauthorised, except by a general understanding among the few who must be the prime movers of such a meeting, would be happy to have this regarded as an invitation to vegetarians everywhere to attend the said\u00a0<i>convention<\/i>, either as delegates, or on their own responsibility.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/congress\/1850\/convention.html\" title=\"American Vegetarian Convention New York City, May 1850 from the Vegetarian Advocate (London), July 1, 1850 on www.ivu.org\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><strong>William Horsell&#8217;s report of the meeting<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These resolutions were adopted:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">FORMATION OF THE AMERICAN VEGETARIAN SOCIETY<\/div>\n<div>Dr. Grimes and Nichols, and Mr. Edward Lyons, were appointed as a committee, to nominate officers.<\/div>\n<div>On motion, the Preamble and Constitution were considered, consecutively, and after some remarks by P. P. Stewart, of Troy. objecting to the term &#8220;<i>Vegetarian<\/i>,&#8221; which were replied to by Dr. Alcott and Dr. Nichols, both were finally adopted, as follows:-<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">PREAMBLE<\/div>\n<div>The objects of this Association are to induce habits of abstinence from the flesh of animals as food, by the dissemination of information upon the subject, by means of verbal discussions, tracts, essays and lectures, exhibiting the many advantages of a physical, intellectual, and moral character, resulting from Vegetarian habits of diet; and thus to secure, through the association, example, and the efforts of its members, the adoption of a principle which will tend essentially to true civilization, to universal brotherhood, and to the increase of human happiness generally.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">CONSTITUTION<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>This Association shall be called the American Vegetarian Society<\/li>\n<li>The Officers of this Society shall consist of a President, nine Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, and Treasurer. These Officers shall form an Executive Business Committee of the Society, any four of whom shall form a quorum.<\/li>\n<li>Any person desirous of promoting the objects of this Society, may become a member by registering his or her name on its rolls, and paying to its funds the sum of twenty-five cents.<\/li>\n<li>The annual subscription of members shall be one dollar, payable when the roll is called at the commencement of each annual general meeting.<\/li>\n<li>The payment of twenty dollars at once shall constitute the individual a life member of this Society.<\/li>\n<li>Persons residing in foreign countries, desirous of joining the society may be enrolled as Honorary Members, without the payment of any subscription, though not entitles to vote.<\/li>\n<li>Members who are in arrears for their annual subscription, shall not be entitled to vote until such arrers are paid.<\/li>\n<li>The Annual Meetings of this Society shall be held in the autumn of each year, at such time and place as shall be determined by the Executive Committee, Special Meetings may be called at any time, also, by the Executive Committee.<\/li>\n<li>The officers shall be elected at each annual meeting; they shall have the entire management of the Society, and be authorized to raise voluntary subscriptions for the Objects of this Society.<\/li>\n<li>The President, or in his absence the Vice-Presidents in order, or in their absence, such persons as the meeting shall appoint, shall preside in all meetings. The Recording Secretary shall keep a true record of all proceedings and report annually, or oftener if required. The Corresponding Secretary shall act as general financial agent in collecting subscriptions, and donations, and perform the correspondence between this Society and other associations and individuals; and shall make a full report at each annual meeting; and special reports at any time when called upon. The Treasurer shall keep all the monies of the Society, and disburse them only on a draft signed by the President, and attested by the Corresponding Secretary.<\/li>\n<li>The Corresponding Secretary shall be entitled to twenty five\u00a0<i>per cent<\/i>. on all subscriptions for his services.<\/li>\n<li>This Society shall have power to make any by-laws not consistent with this Constitution This Constitution may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of its members present at any regular meeting; due notice having been given at a previous regular meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div align=\"center\">OFFICERS OF THE VEGETARIAN SOCIETY<\/div>\n<div>The Committee for the purpose, reported the following names as Officers for the ensuing year of the American Vegetarian Society. The report was adopted and the Society organised accordingly, viz:-<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><i>President<\/i><br \/>\nDr. William A. Alcott, West Newton, Massachusetts<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87808\" align=\"center\"><i>Vice Presidents<\/i><\/div>\n<ol id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87802\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87801\">\n<li>Dr. R. D. Mussey, Cincinnati, Ohio<\/li>\n<li id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87806\">Sylvester Graham, Northampton, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>P. P. Stewart, Troy, New York<\/li>\n<li>H. H. Hite, Middleton, Frederick County, Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Dr. David Prince, St. Louis, Missouri<\/li>\n<li id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87804\">Joseph Wright, A.M., Camden, New Jersey<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Joel Shew, New York<\/li>\n<li>William C. Chapin, Tiverton, Rhode Island<\/li>\n<li id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87800\">Joseph Metcalfe, Frankford, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87798\" align=\"center\"><i id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87797\">Recording Secretary<\/i><br \/>\nDr. R. T. Trall, 15, Laight-street, New York<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87789\" align=\"center\"><i id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87795\">Corresponding Secretary<\/i><br \/>\nRev. William Metcalfe, Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1390184970780_87787\" align=\"center\"><i>Treasurer<br \/>\n<\/i>Samuel R.Wells, New York<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>RYNN BERRY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RynnBerryStand.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7066 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RynnBerryStand.jpg\" alt=\"RynnBerryStand\" width=\"550\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RynnBerryStand.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RynnBerryStand-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=722764544409904&amp;set=a.154741221212242.31850.100000290951913&amp;type=1&amp;theater\" title=\"Question \u2013 May I post it on our blogs Martin Rowe \u2013 in full \u2013 with some additional images \u2013 with links to your profiles at Lantern Books and \/ or Satya? Answer \u2013 Yes, John Edmundson I have no interest in making this proprietary.\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">Permission to repost this article<\/a> has been given by Martin Rowe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong> &#8211; May I post it on our blogs Martin &#8211; in full &#8211; with some additional images &#8211; with links to your profiles at Lantern Books and \/ or Satya?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0Yes, I have no interest in making this proprietary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>~ Remembering\u00a0Rynn ~<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">by Martin Rowe<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trencherman.&#8221; That\u2019s the word I associate with Rynn Berry. Not because, as my Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, he \u201cplay[ed] a good knife and fork,\u201d although I\u2019ve no doubt he loved his food, or because he was \u201cgood, stout, valiant,\u201d although he was those things, too, but because he used the word in one of his books and it stopped me in my literary tracks. The word was so deliciously dental; almost onomatopoeic in its appetitiveness. Here, clearly, was someone who loved words as much as I did; who relished and savored them and wanted his readers to digest them with as much delight as well. We were logophiles, as Rynn would have put it, and we wanted to people to read them and change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/famousvegetarians.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7065 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/famousvegetarians.jpg\" alt=\"famousvegetarians\" width=\"550\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/famousvegetarians.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/famousvegetarians-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An independent scholar who translated texts from the Ancient Greek for pleasure and preferred to use &#8220;anthropophagy&#8221; when &#8220;cannibalism&#8221; would suffice, Rynn was a human John Soane Museum\u2014full of recesses, nooks, and alcoves where antiquities nestled, painstakingly labeled and precisely catalogued, to be dusted off and displayed for an audience who might not appreciate them as much as the curator, but who were nonetheless irresistibly drawn to his house of curiosities. Both of us were a little out of our times, I fancy. We each enjoyed it when, in his wheezy and sussurant voice, Rynn would offer to \u201cinscribe my tome\u201d rather than \u201csign my book.\u201d Why do the latter when the former was so much more fun to proffer?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/food-for-the-gods.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7064 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/food-for-the-gods.jpg\" alt=\"food-for-the-gods\" width=\"550\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/food-for-the-gods.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/food-for-the-gods-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met Rynn more than twenty years ago, and he contributed many articles and interviews to &#8220;Satya,&#8221; the magazine I cofounded with Beth Gould shortly afterwards. Over the years, as we, writers and publishers both, circled each other (sometimes warily, but I like to believe, with mutual respect) Rynn took in stride my suggestion that he supply an introductory chapter for each interview in &#8220;Food for the Gods: Vegetarianism and the World Religions&#8221;\u2014thus doubling his workload. When he asked me to write an introduction to &#8220;Hitler: Neither Vegetarian nor Animal Lover,&#8221; and I produced a long piece designed to bulk up the monograph, he didn\u2019t complain that I questioned whether it really mattered whether Hitler was or wasn\u2019t a vegetarian. He was a gentleman and a pragmatist. Like all good author-publishers, he knew that survival entailed moving copies\u2014and lots of them\u2014pettifoggers and naysayers be damned!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hitler.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7063 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hitler.jpg\" alt=\"hitler\" width=\"549\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hitler.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hitler-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, boy, did he sell \u2018em! For the first seven years of its existence, my publishing company\u2019s offices overlooked Union Square. Every Wednesday and Saturday at the greenmarket, there was Rynn, standing at his table, his headcovering appropriate to the weather, purveying to the public &#8220;The Vegan Guide to New York City&#8221; and other works, and offering to append to their purchase an elegantly cursive dedication in best Indian ink. I loved that other aspect of Rynn: the reticent hustler, the retiring individual absolutely dedicated to promoting his research, to demonstrating that vegetarianism had a long and august history, its arguments on behalf of compassion formulated through the millennia by men and women of courage and conviction. He wanted to show that we weren\u2019t alone, that our words weren\u2019t the first or the last on this vital subject, and that we all had something to contribute.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7060\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7060\" class=\" wp-image-7060 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RynnBookTable.jpg\" alt=\"RynnBookTable\" width=\"550\" height=\"925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RynnBookTable.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/RynnBookTable-178x300.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivavegie.org\/\" title=\"See Pamela's site - http:\/\/www.vivavegie.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">Pamela Rice (Veggie Pride Parade 2013)<\/a> &#8211; Pamela also introduced Rynn in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hOLuD4HuPMU#t=0\" title=\"Go here for Pamela's vegan video collection!\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">video<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veggieprideparade.org\/\" title=\"Learn about the next Veggie Pride Parade NYC will take place Sunday, March 30, 2014\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2012<\/a> which is posted above this.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These days, of course, as illustrated by the many pages of &#8220;The Vegan Guide to New York City&#8221; (admirably compiled by Rynn and his good friend Cristina), veganism is no longer the practice of ascetics or oddball visionaries, but mainstream, chic, almost a clich\u00e9\u2014a mark not of restraint or denial but pleasure, even extravagance. Rynn helped that come about, even though he didn\u2019t walk the red carpets at the New York and LA galas, host his own cooking show on cable, present the keynotes at the big conferences, or front his own column in &#8220;Edible&#8221; [wherever]. He made it possible by bearing witness, week in week out: whether in the greenmarket, or lugging his titles in his enormous backpack around bookshops and health-food stores and veggie restaurants, or attending the Vegetarian Summerfest and potlucks and raw food conferences. Who knows how many tens if not hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of people encountered this shy, amused, and eloquent man and began to think about their diet for the first time? His influence is, quite literally, incalculable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/veganguidetonewyorkcity2013.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7062 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/veganguidetonewyorkcity2013.jpg\" alt=\"veganguidetonewyorkcity2013\" width=\"550\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/veganguidetonewyorkcity2013.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/veganguidetonewyorkcity2013-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In one way, Rynn was one of a kind: the kind of singular personality that New York City welcomes and allows to thrive. In another way, however, Rynn was like so many other activists who remain unsung and unsalaried, but to whom all of us who follow them owe a great debt. We owe them for their writings and their perseverance. We owe them for their refusal to be cowed or browbeaten or diverted from their mission. And we owe them for the dedication and time it took to stand out in all weathers in the hopes that someone would be stopped short (as I was with &#8220;trencherman&#8221;), would pick up some literature (inscribed or no), and allow nothing else to be the same again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/rynn01.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7069 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/rynn01.jpg\" alt=\"rynn01\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/rynn01.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/rynn01-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rynn Berry left us Jan 9 2014 in New York City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Interviews, Videos &amp; Other memories of Rynn &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/rynn-berry\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/rynn-berry\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/martin.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7061 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/martin.jpg\" alt=\"martin\" width=\"124\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Rowe<\/strong> is Publisher and Vice-President of Booklight Inc. He is the author of The Elephants in the Room: An Excavation, The Polar Bear in the Zoo: A Speculation, and Nicaea: A Book of Correspondences, and editor of The Way of Compassion. He co-founded the magazine Satya. He is also the author (with Evander) of Right Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature, and Life. His website is <a href=\"http:\/\/martin-rowe.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">http:\/\/martin-rowe.com\/<\/a>. He blogs regularly at <a href=\"http:\/\/rightoffthebatbook.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">http:\/\/rightoffthebatbook.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Rowe<\/strong> at Lantern Books &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lanternbooks.com\/about.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">http:\/\/www.lanternbooks.com\/about.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>How do we secure these items? &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrysalt.co.uk\/friends\/ernest-bell\/\" title=\"In 1934 Henry Salt suggested the establishment of the Ernest Bell Library as a fitting memorial to him. In this Library the literature of vegetarianism and all the other humanitarian movements in which Mr. Bell was so deeply interested would be collected and made available.\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\"><em><strong>The<\/strong><strong><em> E<\/em>rnest Bell Library<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is in touch with more than 300 specialist dealers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026so we have at least 300 pairs of eyes continuously looking for examples of quirky ephemeral material such as these!<\/p>\n<p>Books &amp; metal items often survive fairly well.<\/p>\n<p>Magazines, posters, booklets &amp; leaflets rarely survive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Ernest Bell Library<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Ernest Bell Library\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is actively building a collection of examples of marketing activities related to: &#8211;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>veg(etari)an products.<\/li>\n<li>veg(etari)an books &amp; other publications.<\/li>\n<li>veg(etari)an\u00a0organisations.<\/li>\n<li>veg(etari)an businesses.<\/li>\n<li>animal rights organisations.<\/li>\n<li>animal rights publications.<\/li>\n<li>humanitarian organisations.<\/li>\n<li>humanitarian publications.<\/li>\n<li>rambling clubs run by members of the above groups &amp; related publications.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Our collection of veg(etari)an &amp; animal rights related magazines is being referenced by scholars almost every day \u2013 starting with Sylvester Graham\u2019s\u00a0<em>Journal of Health and Longevity<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Vol 1 No. 1 \u2013 1837.<\/p>\n<p>We also have a fine &amp; growing collection of \u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u2018art created by humans \u2013 primarily for the benefit of animals\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0both original artwork &amp; printed \/ manufactured items.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone would like to help by either Adopting or Sponsoring items in the library, please be in touch.<\/p>\n<p>humanitarianleague(at)outlook(dot)com &#8211; is our emal address.<\/p>\n<p>We are working seriously on cataloging the collection, as &amp; when funds are available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Evening Transcript ~ Boston, Massachusetts ~ Monday, May 20, 1850 &nbsp; The editorial is a journalist&#8217;s &#8216;take&#8217; on the inaugural meeting of\u00a0The American Vegetarian Society\u00a0of Wednesday 15th &amp; Thursday 16th May 1850! Quite a cutting \/ sarcastic piece of journalism! &#8230;&#8230;but we are are very glad that it was written. Prior to today, this has appeared nowhere else on the Internet. This is the last item which we were discussing with our friend Rynn Berry, before he \u00a0recently left us. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Rynn Berry discussing the veg history of &#8211; New York, the US &#8211; &amp; also this 1850 meeting. Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2012 ~ The Next Veggie Pride Parade NYC will take place Sunday, March 30, 2014 &#8211; click HERE for more details ~ Underneath this we are posting Martin Rowe&#8217;s piece in which he remembers Rynn. We have embedded several links into this post, to assist scholars. The Ernest Bell Library has original books &amp; papers by several of the people who attended this 1850 meeting. They all had very strong links with the London, UK &#8216;vegans&#8217; of the period. 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