Amos Norton Craft
American writer
About Amos Norton Craft
Lived 1844 – 1912 (aged 67–68).
Amos Norton Craft (July 7, 1844 - August 30, 1912) was an American Methodist and early skeptic writer.
Craft was born in Mecca, Ohio, on July 7, 1844. He married Alice Alvira Judson on March 10, 1863. He is most well known for his Epidemic Delusions (1881). According to skeptic Daniel Loxton the book is a "critical gaze over spirit mediums, end of the world panics, bogus religious relics, witch-hunting manias, haunted houses, clairvoyance, and mesmerism. Again and again he hammered home the point that paranormal claims rest upon arguments from ignorance."
Craft died on August 30, 1912, in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Publications Epidemic Delusions: Exposé of the Superstitions and Frauds Which Underlie Some Ancient and Modern Delusions (1881) Exodus From Poverty: Or The Other Economics (1914)
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Who was Amos Norton Craft?
American writer
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Amos Norton Craft was born in 1844.
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Amos Norton Craft died in 1912.
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