The 1900s: Religion: Deaths

THE 1900s: RELIGION: DEATHS

Francis Ellingwood Abbot, 66, cofounder in 1867 of the Free Religious Association, 23 October 1903.

Benjamin William Arnett Jr., 68, seventeenth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church and self-educated editor of The Budget (1881-1904), 9 October 1906.

Josephine Abiah Penfield Cushman Bateham, 71, social activist who headed the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's Department for the Suppression of Sabbath Desecration, 15 March 1901.

Joseph A. Beebe, 70, bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, 6 June 1903.

Jacob Beilhart, 41, founder of the communal Spirit Fruit Society, which lasted from 1901 until 1930, 24 November 1908.

Mary Lucinda Bonney, 84, Baptist laywoman and Indian rights activist as head of Women's National Indian Association, 24 July 1900.

Margaret McDonald Bottome, 78, president and organizer of the International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons, 14 November 1906.

George Quayle Cannon, 74, editor, writer, leading member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was once jailed for polygamy, 12 May 1901.

William Colley, 62, organizer of the National Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States, 24 December 1909.

Michael Augustine Corrigan, 62, conservative Catholic archbishop of New York, 5 May 1902.

Malinda Elliott Cramer, 62, founder of Divine Science Federation International, a splinter group from the Christian Scientists, 2 August 1906.

William Saunders Crowdy, 61, founder in 1896 of the black Jewish group Church of God and Saints of Christ, 4 August 1908.

Richard De Baptiste, 69, popular black preacher and president of the Consolidated American Baptist Convention, 21 April 1901.

Abby Morton Diaz, 83, New Thought lecturer, feminist, and writer, 1 April 1904.

John Alexander Dowie, 59, faith healer and founder in 1896 of the Christian Catholic Church and in 1901 of the town of Zion, Illinois, as a communal settlement, 9 March 1907.

George Park Fisher, 82, dean of Yale Divinity School and Congregational church historian, 20 December 1909.

Randolph Sinks Foster, 83, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church who wrote the six-volume Studies in Theology, 1 May 1903.

Emanuel Vogel Gerhart, 86, prominent theologian in the German Reformed Church, 6 May 1904.

Geronimo, 79, Chiricahua Apache holy man, healer, and war chief, 17 February 1909.

William Samuel Godbe, 69, founder in 1870 of the Church of Zion, a Mormon splinter group, 1 August 1902.

Frederick William Grant, 68, leader of the Plymouth Brethren and author of The Numerical Bible series, 25 July 1902.

Edward Everett Hale, 87, minister of the American Unitarian Association and author of The Man Without a Country, 10 June 1909.

Thomas Lake Harris, 82, Spiritualist leader and founder of the Brotherhood of the New Life, 23 March 1906.

James Augustine Healy, 70, first black bishop in the Roman Catholic Church, 5 August 1900.

John Holdeman, 68, founder of the Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, 10 March 1900.

Henry Ritz Holsinger, 72, founder of Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio, and publisher of Christian Family Companion, 12 March 1905.

Moses Hull, 71, leading Spiritualist writer and publisher of The New Thought, 10 January 1907.

William Reed Huntington, 70, Episcopal minister in New York City and author of A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer, 26 July 1909.

Sheldon Jackson, 75, Presbyterian missionary to Alaska and the western United States, 2 May 1909.

Samuel Porter Jones, 59, popular evangelist of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 15 October 1906.

Martin Wells Knapp, 48, founder of the International Holiness Union and Prayer League, 7 December 1901.

Charles Cardwell McCabe, 70, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church who oversaw the church's expansion into the West, 19 December 1906.

William Leroy Pettingill, 39, fundamentalist minister and author of the Simple Studies series, 15 September 1905.

Piapot, 92, traditional religious leader of the Cree Indian tribe and Sun Dance organizer, 1908.

Hiram Rhoades Revels, 78, educator, U.S. senator, minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and president of Alcorn University, 16 January 1901.

Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson, 79, missionary to the Creek Indians and Bible translator, 19 November 1905.

Ira D. Sankey, 68, hymn writer for Dwight L. Moody, 14 August 1908.

Theodore Lorenzo Seip, 61, educator and minister of the General Council of Lutheran Churches in America, 28 November 1903.

Joseph Augustus Seiss, 81, educator, minister of the General Council of Lutheran Churches in America, and author of The Apocalypse, a series of lectures given in 1865, 20 June 1904.

Uriah Smith, 70, pioneer Seventh-Day Adventist and editor of the Review and Herald, 6 March 1903.

Smohalla, 92?, founder of the Washani (Dreamer) religion, a Native American millennial movement, 1907.

Lorenzo Snow, 87, fifth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was once arrested for polygamy, 10 October 1901.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 86, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and editor of The Woman's Bible, 26 October 1902.

Eliza Allen Starr, 77, Roman Catholic author and artist who wrote Pilgrims and Shrines (1881), 7 September 1901.

John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg, 68, pioneering sociologist and theologian of the General Synod, Lutheran Church, 18 May 1903.

Thomas DeWitt Talmage, 70, popular preacher, columnist, and editor of Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine, 12 April 1902.

Isaac Taylor Tichenor, 77, missionary secretary for the Southern Baptist Convention (1881-1900), 2 December 1902.

Henry Clay Trumbull, 73, Congregationalist minister and popularizer of Sunday schools, 8 December 1903.

Milton Valentine, 81, educator and theologian of the General Synod, Lutheran Church, 7 February 1906.

Aaron Wall, 71, founder of the Defenseless Mennonite Brethren in Christ of North America, 6 August 1905.

Isaac Mayer Wise, 81, rabbi and founder of Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and Hebrew Union College, 26 March 1900.

Annie Turner Wittenmyer, 72, first president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union who founded and edited the journal Christian Women, 2 February 1900.

Henry Wood, 75, popular metaphysical and New Thought author who in 1903 published The New Thought Simplified, 28 March 1909.