William Newton Hartshorn (October 28, 1843 – September 1920) was a Baptist leader from the United States who travelled the world and became a millionaire advocating Sunday school and leading the "Sabbath army". He was born in Greenville, New Hampshire.[1] He lived in Boston.[2] He led a large tour and convention through Palestine and published an account of the journey with Louis Klopsch.[3] He was an executive officer at the Priscilla Publishing Company in Boston.[3]
He had a summer home at Clifton on the North Shore of Massachusetts known as "Dike Rock".[3]
In 1898 and 1899 he was issuing a publication called Household.[4]
He published a book about "progress and promise" among African Americans from the Civil War era to 1910.[5]
Publications
edit- W. N. Hartshorn, ed. 1910. Era of Progress and Promise, 1863-1910: The religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation (The Clifton Conference). Boston: Priscilla Pub. Co.[6] George W. Penniman, associate editor[7]
- "The Story of an Alcohol Slave: As told by himself"[8]
- The Cruise of the Eight Hundred to and Through Palestine; Glimpses of Bible Lands, by Hartshorn and Louis Klopsch
References
edit- ^ "W.N. HARTSHORN WAS WIDELY KNOWN BAPTIST". The Cambridge Chronicle. September 11, 1920.
- ^ "Napa Weekly Journal 25 November 1910 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu.
- ^ a b c Boston Herald obituary as reprinted on Findagrave
- ^ "Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles". U.S. Government Printing Office. October 31, 1899 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Hartshorn, W. N. (William Newton), 1843-1920 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ^ "CONTENTdm". digital.ncdcr.gov.
- ^ "An Era of Progress and Promise, 1863-1910: The religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancipation". Priscilla Pub. Co. – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "The Story of an Alcohol Slave: As told by himself / Mr. W.N. Hartshorn, Chairman Executive Committee, Boston, Mass., Mr. Fred A. Wells, Treasurer, Hartford Building, Chicago, Ill., Mr. Marion Lawrance, General Secretary, Hartford Building, Chicago, Ill". Wellcome Collection.