Description:Chapters: Thornton Chase, Robert Hayden, Anis Mojgani, Nabil-I-Azam, Donna Denize, Isabella Grinevskaya. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thornton Chase (February 22, 1847 September 30, 1912) is commonly recognized as the first convert to the Baha'i Faith of Occidental background. During his life he organized many Baha'i activities in Chicago and Los Angeles and was considered a prominent Baha'i. He was born on 22 February 1847 in Springfield, Massachusetts to parents of English stock and Baptist religion. His father was a singer, amateur scientist, and wealthy businessman. Chase's mother died eighteen days after he was born, an event that profoundly shaped Chase's subsequent development. Chase's father remarried three years later and the couple adopted three girls. Apparently three year-old Thornton was not wanted; the United States 1850 census shows that he was living with a foster family in West Springfield. Chase himself describes his childhood as "loveless and lonely," and the inner vacuum he felt apparently set him on a quest for love, which culminated in his mystical interests. For four years, aged thirteen to sixteen, Chase lived in Newton, Mass., with the Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, a prominent Baptist clergyman. In July 1863 Chase was accepted to Brown University, but instead of matriculating, in early 1864 just before his seventeenth birthday Chase went to Philadelphia to attend a school for officers for black infantry units. By May, 1864 Chase was second in charge of one hundred men, Company K of the Twenty sixth United States Colored Troops. On July 5 and 7 the unit fought two battles south of Charleston, S.C.; Chase was wounded by an exploding cannon, permanently injuring the hearing in his left ear. In 1865 he was promoted to cap...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=8393674We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Baha'i Poets: Thornton Chase, Robert Hayden, Anis Mojgani, Nabil-I-Azam, Donna Denize, Isabella Grinevskaya. To get started finding Baha'i Poets: Thornton Chase, Robert Hayden, Anis Mojgani, Nabil-I-Azam, Donna Denize, Isabella Grinevskaya, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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34
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1156255457
Baha'i Poets: Thornton Chase, Robert Hayden, Anis Mojgani, Nabil-I-Azam, Donna Denize, Isabella Grinevskaya
Description: Chapters: Thornton Chase, Robert Hayden, Anis Mojgani, Nabil-I-Azam, Donna Denize, Isabella Grinevskaya. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thornton Chase (February 22, 1847 September 30, 1912) is commonly recognized as the first convert to the Baha'i Faith of Occidental background. During his life he organized many Baha'i activities in Chicago and Los Angeles and was considered a prominent Baha'i. He was born on 22 February 1847 in Springfield, Massachusetts to parents of English stock and Baptist religion. His father was a singer, amateur scientist, and wealthy businessman. Chase's mother died eighteen days after he was born, an event that profoundly shaped Chase's subsequent development. Chase's father remarried three years later and the couple adopted three girls. Apparently three year-old Thornton was not wanted; the United States 1850 census shows that he was living with a foster family in West Springfield. Chase himself describes his childhood as "loveless and lonely," and the inner vacuum he felt apparently set him on a quest for love, which culminated in his mystical interests. For four years, aged thirteen to sixteen, Chase lived in Newton, Mass., with the Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, a prominent Baptist clergyman. In July 1863 Chase was accepted to Brown University, but instead of matriculating, in early 1864 just before his seventeenth birthday Chase went to Philadelphia to attend a school for officers for black infantry units. By May, 1864 Chase was second in charge of one hundred men, Company K of the Twenty sixth United States Colored Troops. On July 5 and 7 the unit fought two battles south of Charleston, S.C.; Chase was wounded by an exploding cannon, permanently injuring the hearing in his left ear. In 1865 he was promoted to cap...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=8393674We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Baha'i Poets: Thornton Chase, Robert Hayden, Anis Mojgani, Nabil-I-Azam, Donna Denize, Isabella Grinevskaya. To get started finding Baha'i Poets: Thornton Chase, Robert Hayden, Anis Mojgani, Nabil-I-Azam, Donna Denize, Isabella Grinevskaya, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.