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| 1905 (In the year) |
Agnes Alexander arrived in Alaska, the first Bahá'í travelling teacher to visit the territory. [BBRSM:107] |
Alaska; United States |
Agnes Alexander |
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| 1915 16 Jun |
Miss Margaret Green of Washington DC arrived in Alaska, the first known resident Bahá'í. She settled in Juneau from 1915 to 1918 and worked as a public librarian. [NSA site] |
Washington DC; Alaska; United States |
Margaret Green |
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| 1926 Jan |
Orcella Rexford and her husband Dr Gayne Gregory (the first to accept the Faith in Alaska) went to Haifa on pilgrimage and were technically the first from Alaska to do so. They were in the process of moving from Alaska to the Continental USA. [SETPE1p112-113
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See BW11p495-498 for for details of the life of Orella Rexford. |
Haifa; Alaska; United States |
First Bahais by country or area; Orcella Rexford |
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| 1943 4 Sep |
The first local spiritual assembly in Alaska was established at Anchorage. |
Anchorage; Alaska; United States |
Local Spiritual Assembly |
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| 1949 (In the year) |
Agnes Harrison (née Parent), an Athabascan, became a Bahá’í in Alaska, the first Native Alaskan to accept the Faith in the country. |
Alaska; United States |
First Bahais by country or area |
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| 1952 12 Nov |
Dagmar Dole, pioneer to Alaska and Denmark, passed away in Glion, Switzerland.
Shoghi Effendi said she was the ‘first to give her life for the Cause in the European project’. [BW12:702; ZK66–7]
For her obituary see BW12:701–2.
See also Bahá'í Chronicles and Find a Grave. |
Glion; Switzerland; Alaska; United States; Denmark |
Dagmar Dole; In memoriam; Births and deaths |
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| 1954 (In the year) |
The first Tlinget from Alaska to become a Bahá’í, Eugene King, enrolled. |
Alaska; United States |
First Bahais by country or area |
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| 1954 May |
Elinore Putney arrived in the Aleutian Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá’u‘lláh. [BW13:449] |
Aleutian Islands; Alaska; United States; Russia |
Knights of Bahaullah |
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| 1956 (In the year) |
The first Tlinget to become a Bahá’í in Alaska, Joyce Anderson Combs, enrolled. |
Alaska; United States |
First Bahais by country or area |
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| 1957 Ridván |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Alaska was formed and incorporated immediately upon formation. [HE31]
This was the first time a political entity (i.e. the United States) was subdivided to form a national spiritual assembly. [BW13:270]
In 1927 the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada resolved, in their Declaration of Trust and By-law of the National Spiritual Assembly, to exclude Alaska and Hawaii and all United States trusts and territories including Puerto Rico from their jurisdiction. [Constitution of the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States]
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Alaska; United States |
Incorporation; National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1958 (In the year) |
The first Aleut to become a Bahá’í, Vassa Lekanoff, enrolled in Unalaska. |
Unalaska; Alaska; United States |
First Bahais by country or area |
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| 1959 (In the year) |
The first Inuit in Alaska to become a Bahá’í, William Wiloya, enrolled in Nome. |
Nome; Alaska; United States |
First Bahais by country or area; First believers by background; Inuit |
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| 1974 (In the year) |
The first Native Council took place in Haines, Alaska, attended by 50 native Bahá’ís. |
Haines; Alaska; United States |
Firsts, Other |
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| 1974 Ridván |
The first local spiritual assembly of Kotzebue, an Iñupiat Eskimo community situated north of the Arctic Circle, was formed. |
Kotzebue; Alaska; United States; Arctic |
Local Spiritual Assembly |
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| 1976 10 Jan |
The most northerly-located local spiritual assembly in the world was formed in the Iñupiat community of Barrow, Alaska. |
Barrow; Alaska; United States |
Local Spiritual Assembly; Superlatives |
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| 1976 23 – 25 Jul |
An International Teaching Conference was held in Anchorage, Alaska, attended by 1,005 Bahá’ís. [BW17:81]
For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW17:130–1.For pictures see BW17:110, 113, 116–17. |
Anchorage; Alaska; United States |
Conferences, Bahai; Conferences, Teaching; Conferences, International; Teaching |
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from the Main Catalogue
- Alaskan Bahá'í Community: Its Growth and Development: The Formative Years: To 156 B. E. (1999), by John E. Kolstoe (1999). Compilation of historical materials on the Faith in Alaska up through the late 1990s. [about]
- Betty Becker, Valiant Servant Pioneer, by Earl Redman (2017). The story of a Bahá’í from Kansas who moved first to Alaska to spread the Bahá’í Faith there and then to Chile. Link to document offsite. [about]
- Emogene Hoagg: Exemplary Pioneer, by Amine De Mille, in Bahá'í News, 511 (1973). Biography of travel-teacher and translator of the Writings into Italian. [about]
- Henrietta Emogene Martin Hoagg: Short Biographical Monograph, by Peter Terry (1997). Biography of a travel-teacher, translator of the Writings into Italian, and the first pioneer to Italy. She had a great impact on her fellow believers during her lifetime, but is little-recognized today. [about]
- High Endeavors: Letters to Alaska, by Shoghi Effendi (1976). [about]
- Native Bahá'ís: Bios of past and contemporary Bahá'ís of native ancestry (2014). Links to photographs and information from the 1910s to the present about Native Bahá'ís, both from the United States, Canada, Hawaii, and Alaska, and indigenous Bahá'ís elsewhere around the world. [about]
- Ridván 1996 (Four Year Plan) - To the Followers of Bahá'u'lláh in North America: Alaska, Canada, Greenland and the United States: Bahá'í Era 153, by Universal House of Justice (1996). Country-specific portion of the annual message to the Bahá'ís of the world: North America. [about]
- Talk "Arise" at Anchorage Conference, by William Sears (1976). Address to the International Teaching Conference, Anchorage, July 1976. [about]
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