Henry Frank

Background

Frank, Henry was born on December 21, 1854 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Son of Jacob H. and Henrietta (Auerbach) Frank.

Education

Graduate Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1874, student Harvard University, 1874.

Career

1 son, Crosby Field. Professor of literature and history, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, 1876-1877. Was Mechanical Engineering minister, then pastor Congressional Church, Jamestown, New York, 1886. Renounced orthodoxy and originated Independent Congressional (New Theology) Church, Jamestown, 1888.

Founded, 1897, and lecturer Metropolitan (Ethical Religious) Society, New New York

Called to San Francisco, 1917, to succeed Doctor Charles Aked. Founded and was leader People's Liberal Church, San Francisco.

Author: Doom of Dogma and Dawn of Truth, 1901. Modern Light on Immortality, 1909, 2d educated, 1912.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, 1910.

Psychic Phenomena, Science and Immortality, 1911, 16. The Story of America, 1912. The Clash of Thrones (sonnets on the Great War), 1915.

The Challenge of the War—Can Science Answer Riddle of the Grave? 1919.

The Last Enigma (British and American edits), 1924, 27. Jesus, A Modern Critical Study, 1930.

Home: San Diego, California.

Achievements

• Henry Frank has been listed as a notable lecturer, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Carrie Cleveland, 1876 (deceased). Married second, Alice R. Field, January 14, 1886.

Father:

Jacob H. Frank

Mother:

Henrietta (Auerbach) Frank

Spouse:

Carrie Cleveland

Spouse:

Alice R. Field