Bahaipedia:Today's featured individual/September 26
May Bolles Maxwell (1870-1940) was an early American Bahá’í, is best known as the mother of Rúhíyyih Khánum, and the wife of William Sutherland Maxwell. She was among the first group of pilgrims to visit ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in February 1899. She was also an early participant at Green Acre, the first Bahá’í training facility in the United States. In 1927 she was a member of the joint National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada.