for disease of body and mind, will delineate the character of persons when present, or by letter, and indicate their future as impressions are given him; will sketch the special capacities of young persons ... Applications to lecture, or hold conversations on Spiritualism, will be welcomed." In 1872, Spear claimed to have received a message from the Association of Electrizers urging him to retire from the ministry. He died in October 1887, in the city of Philadelphia, and was buried in the Mount Moriah Cemetery. See also Frankenstein Giovanni Aldini Johann Konrad Dippel References External links Publisher's page for The Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear Forteana 1804 births 1887 deaths 19th-century Christian universalists American spiritualists Burials at Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia) Clergy of the Universalist Church of America Underground Railroad people 19th-century American clergy