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Knoxville’s Doctor Frankenstein
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Knoxville’s Doctor Frankenstein

Byallen September 4, 2022July 18, 2022

In early August 1829 Presbyterian minister and East Tennessee College professor Dr. Stephen Foster met with 24-year-old James White and 60-year-old Joshua Young in jail in Knoxville, Tennessee. Both men were convicted murderers and scheduled to be hanged. As a man of science and faith Dr. Foster had an eerie fascination with galvanism that stemmed…

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