Elisabeth Cheney

Elisabeth Cheney
Born1895
DiedOctober 8, 1959
Lima, Ohio, USA.
NSA memberGreater Antilles
1957 - ????
ABMAmericas
1957 - 1959
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Elisabeth H. Cheney (1895 - October 8, 1959)[1] was an American Bahá’í who pioneered to South America in the 1940's, served on the Inter-America Committee from 1946 to 1951 and as an Auxiliary Board member for the Americas from 1957.

Background

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Cheney was from Lima, Ohio, and at some point she became a Bahá’í being introduced to the religion by Dorothy Baker.[2] In 1940 she moved to Paraguay becoming the first Bahá’í pioneer to the country and she conducted study classes to teach the Faith.[3][4][5] She returned to Lima in 1941 due to suffering a serious illness but aimed to return to South America as soon as recovering.[6] In 1942 she taught at the Louhelen Summer School speaking on consultation,[7] and in 1943 the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada appointed her to the national radio script reviewing committee.[8]

In December 1944 Cheney returned to South America traveling through Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina where she stopped in Buenos Aires to assist the Bahá’í Publishing Committee for Spanish literature,[9] and Montevideo in Uruguay where she spent two months teaching to assist the city in establishing a Local Spiritual Assembly,[10] before settling in Asuncion in Paraguay in January 1945.[11] In October 1945 she pioneered to Managua, Nicaragua, to support efforts to form a Local Spiritual Assembly which were successful in 1946.[12]

Cheney visited Panama for a major Bahá’í conference in 1946 and then settled in Bogota, Colombia, to teach aiming to stay until April 1947.[13] In mid 1946 she was appointed to the Inter-America Committee as secretary succeeding Edna True,[14] and in December she visited the United States to conduct a teacher training session at the Louhelen Summer School.[15]

In 1949 Cheney represented the Inter-America Committee at a regional Bahá’í conference held in Havana, Cuba.[16] In 1950 she agreed to become a longterm pioneer to Central America in consultation with the Inter-America Committee,[17] and she settled in Honduras that year,[18] and assisted in the establishment of the National Teaching Committee of Central America.[19] In 1951 she visited the United States and addressed the National Convention of the United States to report the progress of the Faith in Central America.[20]

In 1957 Cheney was appointed to the Auxiliary Board of the Americas for Protection when it was established,[21] and elected to the inaugural National Spiritual Assembly of the Greater Antilles.[22] As of 1959 she had settled in the Dominican Republic,[23] however she passed away in Lima, Ohio, in October that year.[24]

Publications

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References

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  1. ↑ https://billiongraves.com/grave/Elisabeth-H-Cheney/24321655
  2. ↑ From Copper to Gold, Epilogue
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 152, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1944). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 167, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Lamb, Artemus (1995). The Beginnings of the Bahá'í Faith in Latin America:Some Remembrances, English Revised and Amplified Edition. 1405 Killarney Drive, West Linn OR, 97068, United States of America: M L VanOrman Enterprises.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1941). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 149, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1942). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 153, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1944). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 167, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1945). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 173, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1945). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 175, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1945). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 173, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 179, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 182, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
  14. ↑ Baha'i News (September, 1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 187, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  15. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 190, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  16. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 227, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  17. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 230, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  18. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 231, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  19. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 238, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  20. ↑ Baha'i News (1951). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 244, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  21. ↑ Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 324, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  22. ↑ Baha'i News (July 1957). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 317, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
  23. ↑ U.S. Supplement, No. 22, p 2
  24. ↑ The American Bahá’í (1989). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. Volume 20, Issue 5, pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  25. ↑ Baha'i News (1944). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 169, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
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