American Decades
Deaths
Lyman Abbott, 87?, former pastor of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn and editor of The Independent 22 October 1922.
Robert Case Beebe, 72, founder and director of a medical mission and hospital in Nanking who later served as executive secretary of the China Medical Missionary Association, 13 March 1928.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 96?, suffragette and one of the first women to pastor a church in America, though never ordained, 2 November 1921.
Olympia Brown, 91, the first woman ordained by a major denomination when the Universalist Church gave her a pastorate in 1863, 23 October 1926.
Francis E. Symmes Clark, 75, Congregationalist minister who founded the youth group Christian Endeavor, which became the largest interdenominational youth group in the world and generated a variety of denominational imitations, 26 May 1927.
H. N. Couden, 79, chaplain of the U.S....
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1920's Religion
