John Shurcliff
John Perkins Shurcliff (c. 1911 - November 17, 1993) was an American Bahá’í who assisted in the establishment of the Bahá’í Faith in Belgium.
Biography[edit]
Shurcliff attended MIT and Harvard University in his youth and in his professional career he went on to invent Crayoneer multi-colored pencils. In his personal life he married Eunice Allyn and they had two daughters. In the Second World War he served as a flight instructor in the United States Army.[1]
As of the 1940's the Shurcliff's had become Bahá’ís and Shurcliff spoke on his experiences in the Army at the 1944 National Convention of the United States.[2] In March, 1947, the Shurcliff's pioneered to Brussels, Belgium, where they began making efforts to establish a Bahá’í community,[3] and in 1948 the Local Spiritual Assembly of Brussels was established with Shurcliff being elected to it.[4] By 1949 a Bahá’í Center had been secured in Brussels which the Shurcliff's used as their residence.[5]
In 1950 the Shurcliff's returned to the United States.[6] In 1960 Shurcliff was appointed to the Area Teaching Committee of the Tennessee Valley States.[7]
In 1993 Shurcliff passed in Greenville, South Carolina, survived by his wife and daughters.[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-greenville-news-obit-of-bahai-john/6587376/
- ↑ Baha'i News (1944). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 170, Pg(s) 19. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 194, Pg(s) 1. View as PDF.
- ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-greenville-news-obit-of-bahai-john/6587376/
- ↑ Baha'i News (1949). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 223, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 230, Pg(s) 17. View as PDF.
- ↑ US Supplement, 34, p 2
- ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-greenville-news-obit-of-bahai-john/6587376/
