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Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (1869 - 1942) was a New York Politician and Bahá'í, expelled by Shoghi Effendi in the 1920s. 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
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Seat of the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, Israel, governing body of the BaháÃs The Baháà Faith is a religion founded by Baháulláh in 19th century Persia. ...
The last photograph of Shoghi Effendi, taken a few months before he died. ...
The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
Biography
Born Sep 24, in Newport, Rhode Island the son of John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor Ward [1], Lewis came from a very well-placed family of New York. The family was wealthy and influential, and quite a large volume of work has been devoted to the Astor family. September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Newport as seen from the International Space Station. ...
The Astor family, founded by the German immigrant John Jacob Astor and his wife Sarah Todd, became the wealthiest family in the United States during the 19th century. ...
He attended Columbia University where he received his LL.B. in 1891. Then he went to Cambridge, matriculating in 1894. He became a lawyer, and practiced in New York. Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ...
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Lewis rose to become Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1907-08 and then Democratic nominee for Governor in 1908. His run for Governor was opposed by Hearst, who lampooned him in a series of cartoons. While a resident of Barrytown, Dutchess County, he became a member of the New York State Assembly from Dutchess County's 2nd District in 1910-12. Franklin Roosevelt had at first thought of running for this seat in the assembly, but Chanler refused to give it up, hence Franklin ran for the senate. A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ...
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The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Republican Party. ...
A governor or governour (archaic) is a governing official, usually the executive (at least nominally, to different degrees also politically and administratively) of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the Head of state; furthermore the title applies to officials with a similar mandate as representatives of a chartered...
William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate, born in San Francisco, California. ...
The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York Legislature body of the state of New York. ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), often referred to as FDR, was the 32nd (1933–1945) President of the United States. ...
The New York State Senate is one of two houses in the New York State Legislature and has members each elected to two-year terms. ...
About 1920, Lewis and his first wife divorced and the next year he married Julia (Olin) Benkard, also a recent divorcee, with two daughters of her own. The family bought a new home at 132 East 65th Street, in New York City. This house was later christened Caravan House. Julia Lynch Olin (1882-1961) was an American author and Baháà who co-founded the New History Society in New York city, and was later expelled from the religion by Shoghi Effendi around 1939. ...
Julie was first introduced to the Bahá'í Faith in 1925, and joined after a short time. Becoming on intimate terms with Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, the three of them formed the New History Society. Several works were published by the Society both before, during and after the events which led to their expulsion from the Bahá'í community in 1939. MÃrzá AhÌ£mad Sohráb (1893 - 1958) was a Persian-American author and Baháà who founded the New History Society in New York, and was excommunicated from the Baháà Faith in 1939 by Shoghi Effendi. ...
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Sohrab taught classes on the Bahá'í Faith and when the local New York administration stated that these classes must be under their authority, the group challenged and then were expelled from the movement. During this time they created the Caravan of East and West which was an educational organization designed to prepare members for membership in the Bahá'í Faith. 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. ...
They continued and greatly expanded their work in New York City. After the deaths of Sohrab and Julie, the Society appears to have vanished, but the Caravan lived on and still exists as a non-profit, at the same address. Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
Lewis died on Feb 28, 1942 at his home in New York City. His obituary appeared in the New York Times on Mar 4. His funeral was conducted at St Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie by Rev. C.A.W. Brocklebank. After the scriptural reading, 'Mirza Ahmad Sohrab read from "the service for the departed" of the Bahai cult'. Lewis was buried at St Paul's Churchyard in Glen Cove, Long Island. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ...
Glen Cove is a city located in Nassau County, New York. ...
Marriages and Children Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (1869-1942) m.1st 1890 (div) Alice Chamberlain (1868-1955), m.2nd 1921 Julie (Olin) Benkard (1882-1961) (she had previously married a Benkard). - Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler Jr. (1891-1963), m.1st around 1920 Leslie Murray, m.2nd after 1940 Mary Kroehle
- Clare Chanler, m.Baynard Forster
- Bronson Winthrop Chanler (*1922), m. Evelyn Williams Rogers (*1931)
- Alida Chanler (1894-1983), m. William Christian Bohn
- William Chamberlain Chanler (1895-1981), m. Frances Randall Williams
See also The Baháà Faith has had challenges to leadership at the death of every head of the religion. ...
Note: the term head of the Faith is used throughout the article, it is helpful to note that, since 1963, this refers to the elected nine-member Universal House of Justice. ...
External links - His picture at NYPL, Click to enlarge, bottom-right.
- Biography of his wife Julie Olin
New York Public Library, central block, built 1897–1911, Carrère and Hastings, architects (June 2003) The New York Public Library (NYPL), one of three public library systems serving New York City, is one of the leading libraries in the United States. ...
References - Summary of "From Gaslight to Dawn" by Julie Chanler
- Harpers Magazine
- One part of family tree
- Venn, J. A., comp. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954.
- Who's Who in America, 1920-1
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Obituary, New York Times, Mar 4, 1942, pg. 19
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