The 1910s: Religion: Deaths

THE 1910s: RELIGION: DEATHS

Peter Abbelen, 74, German American vicar general of the archdiocese of Milwaukee who, in 1886, submitted a memorial to Pope Leo XIII requesting that Catholic parishes in America be drawn up along ethnic lines, 24 August 1917.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, 88, popular religious writer and novelist, 10 March 1919.

Harrison D. Barrett, 47, first president of the National Spiritualist Association; he once defended in court a medium accused of witchcraft, 12 January 1911.

Borden Parker Bowne, 63, professor of philosophy at Boston University, 1 April 1910.

Phineas Bresee, 76, founding father of the Holiness Church of the Nazarene, 13 November 1915.

Charles Augustus Briggs, 72, theologian and biblical scholar tried for heresy by the Presbyterian Church in 1892, 8 June 1913.

Henry Harrison Brown, 77, Unitarian minister and founder of "Now" Folk, an early New Thought group, 8 May 1918.

Francis Xavier Cabrini, 67, Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart; in 1946 she became the first American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, 22 December 1917.

Beverly Carradine, 71, Holiness evangelist and religious writer, 1919.

Benajah Harvey Carroll, 70, preacher and educator; he founded the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 11 November 1914.

Paul Carus, 66, German-born philosopher, author of several books on Buddhism, and editor of the Open Court Journal, 11 February 1919.

Gaston Barnabas Cashwell, 66, pioneer Pentecostal preacher, converted at the Azusa Street Revival, who introduced Pentecostalism in much of the American South, 1916.

John Wilbur Chapman, 59, popular Presbyterian evangelist who worked with Dwight L. Moody and influenced Billy Sunday, 25 December 1918.

Thornton Chase, 65, one of the first converts to the Baha'i faith in America; he wrote The Bahai Revelation in 1909, 13 September 1912.

Charles Edward Cheney, 80, bishop of the Chicago synod of the Reformed Episcopal Church for thirty-eight years, 15 November 1916.

William Newton Clarke, 70, Baptist theologian and champion of modernism, 14 January 1912.

Fanny Muriel Jackson Coppin, 76, former slave, teacher and executive of African Methodist Episcopal Church, and president of Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, 21 January 1913.

Fanny Crosby, 94, poet and popular hymn writer, 12 February 1915.

Andrew Jackson Davis, 83, father of American Spiritualism and author of The Principles of Nature (1847), 13 January 1910.

William Porcher DuBose, 82, Episcopal theologian, 18 August 1918.

William Durham, 39, independent Pentecostal minister converted at Azusa Street revival; publisher of Pentecostal Testimony, 7 July 1912.

Mary Baker Eddy, 89, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, 3 December 1910.

John Murphy Farley, 76, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the archbishop of New York since 1902; he initiated publication of the Catholic Encyclopedia, 17 September 1918.

George Burnham Foster, 60, Baptist theologian and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, 22 December 1918.

James Marion Frost, 68, founder of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 30 October, 1916.

Wesley John Gaines, 71, former slave, bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 12 January 1912.

Washington Gladden, 82, Congregational minister and Social Gospel theologian, 2 July 1918.

Raphael Hawaweeny, 54, first Russian Orthodox bishop consecrated in the United States, 27 February 1915.

Eliza Healy, 72, first black nun to become the superior of a convent (the Congregation of Notre Dame), 13 September 1919.

Patrick Francis Healy, 75, first African American to be accepted by the Jesuits in North America, to be awarded a doctorate in the United States, and to be appointed president of a Catholic college (Georgetown University in 1874), 10 January 1910.

Max Heindel, 53, astrologer and Theosophist who founded the Rosicrucian Fellowship in 1908, 6 January 1919.

John Ireland, 80, Roman Catholic archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota, 25 September 1918.

Samuel Macauley Jackson, 61, Presbyterian minister and scholar whose works include the Dictionary of the Bible (1880), 2 August 1912.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister and prominent pacifist, 12 September 1918.

Edward Judson, 69, Protestant reformer who initiated the institutional church movement in America, 23 October 1914.

John Joseph Keane, 78, Roman Catholic archbishop; cofounder and first rector of the Catholic University of America, 22 June 1918.

George William Knox, 58, Presbyterian theologian who served as a missionary in Japan, studied Japanese religions, and founded the Union Theological Seminary in Tokyo, 25 April 1912.

Ulrik Vilhelm Koren, 84, Norwegian American minister of the Norwegian Synod of the Lutheran Church and cofounder of Lutheran College in Decorah, Iowa, 20 December 1910.

David Lipscomb, 86, minister in the Church of Christ; he edited the Gospel Advocate for forty-seven years, 11 November 1917.

John William McGarvey, 82, Churches of Christ minister, editor of the conservative Apostolic Times, and pacifist, 6 November 1911.

Benjamin Fay Mills, 58, liberal Presbyterian minister, Social Gospel advocate, popular revivalist, and author of Twentieth Century Religion (1898), 1 May 1916.

Stephen Mitropolsky (Bishop John), 78, Russian Orthodox bishop of Alaska who moved the seat of the church in America from Sitka, Alaska, to San Francisco, 3 May 1914.

Joanna Patterson Moore, 83, Baptist missionary to former slaves; first person commissioned by the Women's American Home Missionary Society, 15 April 1916.

Henry Lyman Morehouse, 82, Baptist Home Missionary secretary for thirty-eight years, 5 May 1917.

Virginia E. Moss, 44, evangelist and founder of an early Pentecostal Bible college, Beulah Heights Bible and Missionary School, 1919.

L. T. Nichols, 67, independent preacher and founder of Meggido Mission Church, a riverboat mission, 28 February 1912.

Stephen Ortynsky, 50, Roman Catholic bishop; born in the Ukraine, he served as bishop for Ukrainian American Catholics (known as Ruthenians), 24 March 1916.

Quanah Parker, 66, Comanche chief and founder of the Native American Church, the pan-Indian peyote religion that incorporated elements of Christianity, 23 February 1911.

Arthur Tappan Pierson, 74, Presbyterian minister, independent evangelist associated with Dwight L. Moody and the Keswick Movement and missionary and editor of Missionary Review since 1890, 3 June 1911.

James E. Quigley, 60, Roman Catholic bishop of Chicago, 10 July 1915.

Walter Rauschenbusch, 56, Baptist minister and Social Gospel theologian, 25 July 1918.

Charles Taze Russell, 64, founder of Jehovah's Witnesses, 31 October 1916.

Solomon Schechter, 65, Conservative Jewish rabbi and president of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, 20 November 1915.

Anna Howard Shaw, 72, first woman ordained by the Methodist Protestant Church; active in temperance and woman suffrage movements, 2 July 1919.

Andrew B. Shelly, 79, president of the General Conference Mennonite Church and editor of Mennonitischer Friedensbote, 26 December 1913.

Amanda Smith, 78, evangelist and missionary in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 24 February 1915.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 79, popular religious writer and cofounder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1 May 1911.

Joseph Fielding Smith Sr. 80, nephew of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism; he was the sixth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 19 November 1918.

Joseph Smith III, 82, president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a group of Mormons who stayed in Nauvoo, Illinois, and did not travel to Utah after the death of founder Joseph Smith Jr., 10 December 1914.

John Lancaster Spalding, 76, Roman Catholic bishop of Peoria, Illinois, 25 August 1916.

James Woodward Strong, 79, founder, trustee, and president of Carleton College, a Congregational college in Northfield, Minnesota, 24 February 1913.

Josiah Strong, 69, Congregational minister, Social Gospel advocate, and author of the highly influential Our Country (1885), 28 April 1916.

Milton Spencer Terry, 74, Methodist theologian and Bible scholar, 13 July 1914.

Crawford Howell Toy, 83, liberal Southern Baptist theologian, biblical scholar, and pioneer in the history of religions at Harvard University, 12 May 1919.

Henry McNeal Turner, 81, African Methodist Episcopal bishop, editor, and outspoken activist for black rights, 9 May 1915.

Benjamin Franklin Underwood, 75, Free Thought lecturer and editor at Open Court Publishing, 10 November 1914.

Margaret Newton van Cott, 84, first American woman licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal church; never ordained, she worked as a traveling evangelist, 29 August 1914.

Alexander Walters, 58, bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and activist for black rights, 1 February 1917.

Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb, 69, early convert to Islam who organized the first Muslim mosque in the United States and founded Moslem World Magazine, 1 October 1916.

Anna White, 79, Shaker elder and spokeswoman for international disarmanent, vice president of the Alliance of Women for Peace, and coauthor of Shakerism: Its Meaning and Message (1904), 16 December 1910.

Ellen Gould Harmon White, 87, cofounder, with her husband, James, of the Seventh-Day Adventists, 16 July 1915.

William Heth Whitsitt, 69, Southern Baptist church historian and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 20 January 1911.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 69, nationally known poet, writer, and New Thought metaphysician, 30 October 1919.

John Roel Zook, 62, traveling evangelist for the Brethren in Christ Church; he helped found Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania, 6 November 1919.