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TAGS: 1890s; 1893; 1910s; 1912; Bahá'í history by country; Ibrahim George Kheiralla; Kenosha, WI; Stoyan Krstoff Vatralsky; United States (documents)

Abstract:

First visited by Kheiralla in 1895, Kenosha was the second city in America to have resident Bahá'ís; it had one of the earliest elected assemblies, and until the 1920s had the third largest community in the States. It is a case study in US Bahá'í history.

Notes:

See also History of the Kenosha Bahá'í Community 1897-1980 (R. Dahl, 1992).

Kenosha, 1893-1912:

History of an Early Bahá'í Community in the United States

William P. Collins

published in Studies in Bábí and Bahá'í History

Volume 1, ed. Moojan Momen, pp. 225-253, of 354 pages total

Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1982

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