A look at the October 4, 1900, edition of The New York Tribune might provide some insight into Ernest’s motivation for returning to America: Winston Spencer Churchill. Who has just been elected a member of Parliament, is to make a three months’ lecture tour in America. He opens in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria on December 12, the anniversary of the capture by the Boers. Mr. Churchill’s subject will be “London to Pretoria, via Ladysmith,” with the story... Read more
General Sir Redvers Buller And Staff Going On Board Dunottar Castle, October 14, 1899.[1] Ernest and Aimée returned to England where they would leave Southampton for the Cape Colony on the R.M.S. Dunnottar Castle, the same vessel as Sir Redvers Buller, the British Commander-in-Chief of the Boer War. A large, raucous crowd of people thronged the platforms at Waterloo Station, to see the Redvers Buller, and the British army, packed into the trains leaving for the Southampton Dock.... Read more
THE SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION. Ernest Temple Hargrove. The history of South Africa is known, roughly, to most people. It does not provide agreeable reading for those who would like to believe that Great Britain is an exception to the rule, and that she, alone among nations, can do no wrong. “Truth is the strong thing,” however, and it is best in any case to tell the truth no matter what inferences we may see fit to draw from it;... Read more
Church of the Holy Apostles.[1] On January 17, 1899, Ernest and Aimée were married in the Church of the Holy Apostles in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. Ernest told Reverend Brady E. Backus, who performed the rite, that “doubtless most of his friends would be greatly surprised that he should be married in a church, but that he had been brought up in the English Church and preferred to be married in its form.” It was reported that Emil... Read more
Towards the end of March 1898, Tingley issued a notice to the stockholders of the West Virginia Corporation, including Spencer and Ernest, which called for a stockholder meeting for April 9, 1898. The purpose, it was stated, was the election of directors. According to the Constitution of the Corporation, however, the directors could only be elected at a regular annual meeting, and the date for the annual meeting had already passed. This was to the first stockholders meeting since their... Read more
A few days after the homecoming for the Theosophical Crusade at Madison Square Garden, on April 9, 1897, Minnie Neresheimer celebrated her birthday at the family home, on the shore of Little Neck Bay, near the Griscom home. The Neresheimer house was as beautifully decorated as the stage at the Garden, with palms, and cut flowers from the Emil’s private conservatory. The Guisemans Orchestra provided the musical entertainment.[1] Ernest, meanwhile, paid a visit to Aimée, and gave her... Read more
Katherine A. Tingley.[1] Katherine Augusta Tingley (1847–1929) was born Katherine Westcott to an old Puritan family in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on July 6, 1847. Around 1861, when she was fourteen, Tingley was sent to study at the Convent of Villa Maria in Montreal, Canada.[2] Of this time she said: “I gained only good, and look back upon those days as the happiest of my life. I became a Catholic, and at the age of 16 went into the... Read more
Ernest Temple Hargrove.[1] Ernest Temple Hargrove was born on December 17, 1870, at Laurel Lodge, Twickenham, in West London, to James Sydney Hargrove and Jessie (née Aird) Hargrove. He would have been the couple’s fifth child, however, two weeks before Ernest was born, on December 3, 1870, his 18-month-old-sister, also named Jessie, died in the family home. Ernest would be the fourth oldest of eight Hargrove children; ranking from oldest to youngest, they were: Constance, Norah, Sidney, Ernest, Percy,... Read more
PROGRESSIVE WOMAN SUFFRAGE UNION “If you want to have your own way,” said Alma, “marry a widower older than you.” Alma Webster Powell, an opera singer, noted in musical circles, had just finished a performance for the Progressive Woman Suffrage Union in the Van Dyck studios. The smiling, white-haired pianist, who provided her piano accompaniment, seemed to confirm Alma’s claim. Alma met her husband, Adoniram Powell, at a church recital of which he was the organist.[1] Alma Webster... Read more
The Christian Socialist Fellowship “Socialism” was the topic for discussion by the newly formed Parkside Christian Socialist Fellowship, at a dinner given by the society at the Parkside Presbyterian Church on March 12, 1908. The pastor, John D. Long, born of missionary parents in Rajahmunda, India, had opened the church the teaching of Christian Socialism in January. The Parkside Presbyterian Church.[1] The national platform of the Socialist Party began making a push to enter the churches, labor... Read more
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