Volunteers of America movement gains permanent New York HQ
A six story New York building is acquired as national headquarters for the Volunteers of America. General Ballington Booth and Maud Ballington Booth celebrate twenty years as American citizens. The movement, eleven years old, emphasizes social and philanthropic work and runs prisons league initiatives, three Hope Hall homes, and broad branch networks across major U.S. cities.
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Ohio
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Akron
Notable sculptors and theater impresarios tied to New York figures
The piece profiles sculptor Wellington Ruckstuhl and the Broadway magnate Abraham Erlanger, detailing Ruckstuhl's Alsatian roots and notable works in New York, including a statue at Columbia. It also notes Erlanger’s acquisition of the Daly portrait collection and mentions Rev. Charles Frederic Aked, newly installed pastor of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, known as Rockefellers church, with his reforms and controversial stances.
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Ruth
Maddison Morton
Brandon Thoms
Charley
Wade Hampton
Columbia, & Co
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Alsace
America
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Paris
Parission
Metropolitan Museum
New York
Jasmina
Wellington Ruckstuhl
Braham L. Erlanger
United States
Augustin Daly
Erlanger
George Gottd
Edith Kingdon
Daly Company
Charles Frederic Aked
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Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
New York City
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Ydney Olivier
Jamaica
Alexander Swettenham
Lausanne
Switzerland
Corpus ‘Christi College
Oxford
British Colonial Office
Goreonor Olivier
Fragmented 19th Century Excerpts From a Turbulent Article
A garbled historical clipping hints at debates on alarm and urban change in Exeter with references to old wards and church vestiges. It mentions figures like Frederick Taylor Gates guiding philanthropic work for Rockefeller, and notes on dialect studies by William Dean Howells, plus brief bios of Theodore E Burton and Charles Dick.
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Exeter
England
Frederick Taylor Gates
John DB. Rockefeller
Benefactions
Gates
Rochester Theological Seminary
American Baptist Education Society
University of Chicago
Chicago
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