Undocumented Aliens: 'Lost' Early Modern Spiritualists

All part of the ongoing effort to tear down the sheet iron wall at the border of acceptable history (Mister Whoever, tear down this wall!) and let the memes be free.

I have been in the habit of stopping, each time I see a new entity (person, place or organization) that repeats itself in the early periodical literature of Spiritualism (pre-1860), long enough to see whether the entity is covered: whether someone's mentioned, summarized, described, potted, framed up or otherwise annotated the entity in question. Often, there is nothing immediately apparent, but there's that other wall -- the pay-wall around academic journals -- that keeps the unwashed from seeing the best part of 50 years of publisher-controlled scholarship, so who knows...

The earlier back one goes in the periodical literature, the more frequently undocumented alients appear, intermingled with canonical citizens and institutions that require no such glossing.

I think it might be better, for all concerned, if I just kept a running list, here. Maybe my lack of breadth will become apparent.

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W(illiam?) M. Fernald -- Buescher footnotes him, but otherwise nada for this lapsed Universalist...
Fannie Green, conspicuous in the pages of The Spirit Messenger and The Univercoelum
Dr. Anna M. L. Potts, who looks absolutely fascinating in her own clothes and as "A Dweller in the Temple" (I think)
Col. Washington A. Danskin, of Baltimore.