Background
Austin, Benjamin Fish was born on September 21, 1850 in Brighton, Ontario, Canada. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Mary Ann (McGuire) Austin.
Austin, Benjamin Fish was born on September 21, 1850 in Brighton, Ontario, Canada. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Mary Ann (McGuire) Austin.
Bachelor of Arts, Albert College, 1877 Bachelor of Divinity, 1881. (Doctor of Divinity, Victoria University, 1892).
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1872. Principal Alma College, Ontario, 1881-1897 (resigned). Engaged in public books and magazines at Toronto, Canada.
Was tried for heresy and expelled from church, 1899.
Since public magazine “Reason,” and lecturer, writer and speaker. Pastor Plymouth Spiritual Church, Rochester, New York, 1906-1913, Central Spiritualist Church, Los Angeles, since 1913.
Author: Glimpses of the Unseen, 1887. Rational Memory Training, 1894.
What Converted Maine to Spiritualism, 1902.
Conundrums for the Clergy, 1904. Success and Happiness, 1905. Mystery of Ashton Hall, 1910.
Address: 133 South. Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles, California.
Married Amanda Connell, of Prescott, Ontario, June 16, 1881.