Jean conan doyle biography of abraham lincoln
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Life of Abraham
Lincoln
LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius | |
TEN CENT POCKET SERIES |
John Hugh Bowers, Ph.D., LL.B.
Dept. History and Social Sciences,
State Teachers' College, Pittsburg, Kans.
HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY
GIRARD, KANSAS
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On Sept. 7, , the year-old Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, doctor, lecturer, seafarer, sportsman, indefatigable social campaigner—and globally renowned author of the Sherlock Holmes tales—shared the platform of a spiritualist rally at a hotel in the naval town of Portsmouth, England, with a year-old spiritual medium named Evan Powell. World War I had ended just 10 months earlier, and it had taken a fearful toll on Conan Doyle’s family. He lost no fewer than 11 relatives either to combat or disease, among them his year-old son Kingsley, who had been invalided out of the front line in France but then succumbed to the Spanish Flu epidemic. It was a blow from which many felt his father never quite recovered.
After several departed souls had apparently materialized on the stage of the Portsmouth hotel, Conan Doyle, his wife Jean and five colleagues repaired to a private upstairs room where they searched Powell, tied him semi-naked to a chair and turned off the lights.
“We had strong phenomena
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When Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on 22 May , in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was 27 and his mother, Mary Josephine Foley, was He married Louisa Hawkins on 6 August , in Thornton in Lonsdale, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Crowborough, Sussex, England, United Kingdom in and London, England, United Kingdom in He died on 7 July , in Crowborough, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 71, and was buried in Crowborough, Sussex, England, United Kingdom.