Julia Lynch Olin (1882-1961) was an American author and Bahá'í who co-founded the New History Society in New York city, and was later expelled from the religion by Shoghi Effendi around 1939. 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Seat of the Universal House of Justice, governing body of the Baháís in Haifa Israel The Baháí Faith is an emerging global religion founded by Baháulláh, a 19th century Persian exile. ... Shoghi Effendi (1897-1957) Shoghi Effendi Rabbani (March 1, 1897 - November 5, 1957) was the Guardian of the Baháí Faith from 1921 until his death. ...

Her parents were Stephen Henry Olin (1847-) and Alice W Barlow (-1882). 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Julie first married J Philip Benkard, of New York, a financier, sometime before 1911, and had two daughters: Phyllis and Elsie. About 1920, they divorced and she then married Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, the ex-Lieutenant Governor of New York and a former Democratic candidate for Governor. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (Sep 24, 1869 Newport, Rhode Island- Feb 1942) was a New York Politician and Baháí, expelled by Shoghi Effendi in the 1920s. ... A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. ...

Julie was first introduced to the teachings of the Bahá'í Faith about 1925, as she states in her auto-biography. Becoming intimately associated with Mirza Ahmad Sohrab they together with her second husband, started the New History Society. This Society, based in the home that Julie and Lewis owned in New York, (later called Caravan House), published several books, into the late 1950s. It apparently became defunct after Ahmad or perhaps after Julie had died. Seat of the Universal House of Justice, governing body of the Baháís in Haifa Israel The Baháí Faith is an emerging global religion founded by Baháulláh, a 19th century Persian exile. ... Mírzá AhÌ£mad Sohráb (1893 - 1958) was a Persian-American author and Baháí who founded the New History Society in New York, and was excommunicated from the Baháí Faith in 1939 by Shoghi Effendi. ...

In 1929, he and Julie formed an educational organization called Caravan of East and West with a quarterly magazine called The Caravan. This magazine is where Sohrab's partial autobiography first appeared, also in 1929. The Caravan of East and West is a tax-exempt, educational foundation for brotherhood, established in 1929 by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler and his wife Julie and located at 132 East 65th Street in New York City, at Caravan House, the former Chanler town residence. ...

The New History Society was addressed by several luminaries, including Albert Einstein in 1930: Albert Einstein, photographed by Oren J. Turner in 1947. ...

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding

Albert Einstein in translation of speech to New History Society, December 14, 1930

Another speaker was Margaret Sanger in Jan 1932. [1] Margaret Sanger. ...

In 1936, Julie translated the French version of Seven Valleys into English.

Many years after her expulsion from the Bahá'í community in 1939, Julie, Lewis, and Sohrab supported the efforts of Mírzá Muhammad `Alí, and at one point petitioned the President of Israel for Muhammad `Alí's property rights when he tried to assert his control over the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh.[2] Mírzá Muhammad `Alí (~1852 - 1937) was the son of Baháulláh and his second wife, Fatimih Khanum. ... Shrine of Baháulláh from the North Located in Bahji near Akká, the Shrine of Baháulláh is the most holy place for Baháís - their Qiblih. ...

As part of it's mission, the New History Society, for many years sponsored an essay-contest. At least one of the winners of this, Jaja Wachuku, became famous in his own right, for his essay "How Can the People of the World Achieve Universal Disarmament?" writen while at the New Africa University College. Jaja Anucha Wachuku (1918 - 1996), a Pan-Africanist at heart and action; and distinguished Nigerian Statesman, Lawyer, Politician, Diplomat and Humanitarian was Nigerias First Speaker of the House of Representatives, First Nigerian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations; plus First Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, etc. ...

Works

• Living Pictures. In the Great Drama of the 19th Century. (with Ahmad Sohrab) New York: The New History Society, 1933. Reprinted. H-Bahai: Lansing, Michigan, 2004. (this link includes her picture)
• Seven Valleys, by Baha'u'llah (trans. Julie Chanler), 1936
• Brand, & Sohrab [libretto Max Brand, and Julie Chandler; Music Max Brand]. The Gate: Scenic Oratorio for Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra in Two Parts (19 Scenes). 61. New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1944.
• Ioas, Chanler, & Sohrab. Three Letters. [11] leaves. New York: Caravan of East and West, 1954.
• From Gaslight to Dawn, New History Foundation, NY 1956

References

• Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. New York, NY: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911.

• Summary of "From Gaslight to Dawn" by Julie Chanler

• Living Pictures (see Works above)

External links

NSA:A Statement Concerning the New History Society