Edward Ruppers
Edward Ruppers (1870 - September 22, 1956)[1][2] was an American Bahá’í who was the earliest recorded Bahá’í to live in Arkansas and the first pioneer to Phoenix, Arizona.
Background[edit]
Ruppers married at some point to Amanda Nelson, daughter of Ingre Ana Nelson, and both his wife and mother-in-law were also Bahá’ís.[3] They had a daughter, Nina Virginia Ruppers, in 1908 who also became a Bahá’í and was an active member of the Chicago community.[4]
Ruppers and his wife attended several talks given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Chicago when He visited the city in 1912,[5] and Ruppers was recorded as a Bahá’í living in Genoa, Miller County, Arkansas in 1913.[6]
In 1917 Ruppers and his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona,[6] and they were the first permanent Bahá’í residents to live in the city.[5] In 1918 the Ruppers began hosting travel teachers and formed a Bahá’í study group,[7][8] and in the 1930's Ruppers served as a delegate of the Phoenix community to the Bahá’í Convention of the United States and Canada.[9]
Ruppers wife passed away in Phoenix in 1937,[10] and he also passed in Phoenix in 1956.[11]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102487058/edward-ruppers
- ↑ Baha'i News (1956). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 309, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1931). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 50, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News Letter (1930). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 37, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://bahaisofphoenix.org/history/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/bah%C3%A1%C3%ADs-4312/
- ↑ Baha'i News (September, 1930). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 44, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1931). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 50, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1937). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 108, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1937). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 112, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1956). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 309, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
