The Oneida community experiment in stirpiculture.

The institution afterwards known as the Oneida Community was founded by John Humphrey Noyes at Putney, Vermont, in 1841. In 1848 under pressure of persecution the Community removed to Oneida, New York, which at that time was a frontier settlement. In its new location the Community grew and prospered until January 1, 1881, when, for reasons which need not here be detailed, it was reorganized as a joint-stock company. Since that date the joint-stock successor of the Community has carried on its business with extraordinary success, its net assets having increased from about $550,000 in 1881 to nearly $7,000,000 at the present time.