Louise Dixon Boyle | |
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Born | Louise Dixon January 28, 1875 |
Died | May 4, 1953 (aged 78) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Social activist and organizer in education and race issues |
Known for | National Assembly member, Race Amity/Unity Committee and Race Amity Conventions, received a Tablet from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Miami, Fl, 1919 |
Louise Dixon Boyle was born January 28, 1875, in Princess Anne, Maryland, and died May 4, 1953, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Daughter of Charlotte Brittingham Dixon, founder of the Washington DC Bahá'í community, she went with her mother and sister on their first pilgrimage to see ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in 1900, following which they encountered and introduced the Faith to Agnes Alexander. Starting with a high school education and following a period of DC centric activity in society and associations, Boyle met with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during the journeys in America three times and began to rise to wider circles of endeavor following His encouragement. She wrote a number of papers starting with one to Bahá'ís encouraging adaptation and awareness of different approaches to the Faith, participated in the organizational work of the Montessori movement in DC and holding up the resonances between the some ideas in the research of its founder and the Faith. Boyle went on to be elected to the precursor of, and its successor, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada, as well as being appointed to many national committees and initiatives most prominent of which was the Race Amity Conventions after being part of the DC community's processing of the stance of upholding racially integrated meeting. Boyle is credited with arranging the catalytic meeting that set the tone of the first meeting of the Race Amity Convention. Following this Boyle often worked on or with the national Race Amity Committee and successor committees and was endorsed by Louis Gregory in the same breath with Rhodes Scholar Alain Locke following her work traveling to the South for the Faith several times. She was in Miami Florida in early 1919, where she received a tablet from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, and was visible at a public meeting of the religion, returned in the winter of 1925-6, and arranged for a interracial meeting in Charlottesville at which Louis Gregory arrived early in 1933. Boyle's husband consulted on many steps during the long construction of the House of Worship in Wilmette and did the construction of the national headquarters of the Red Cross as well as others. Her son went on to be a professor at the University of Virginia and both husband and son were among the kin that signed a 1919 open letter hoping for the return of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to America. She died during the Holy Year of the centenary of the fundamental experience of Bahá'u'lláh in the Siyah-Chal, observed with the dedication of the House of Worship in Wilmette, and the announcement of the Ten Year Crusade.
Born and raised[edit]
Louise Dixon Boyle was born January 28, 1875, in Princess Anne, Maryland. Her father’s name was George Dixon and her mother was Charlotte Emma/Emily Brittingham Dixon.[1][2][3][4] Charlotte was born July 19, 1851[5] (or 1852),[6] also in/near Princess Anne, as were her parents.[2] George W. Dixon left a Will in 1875,[7] and died young at 27 years old in 1877.[8] He had attended Millerite meetings arranged by his father in his youth and left Charlotte with two daughters - Louise and George.[6] Louise graduated from Washington Academy,[9] the second generation public school of the county.[10]
Charlotte had a profound religious experience in 1896 and moved to Chicago circa 1897 in pursuit of it.[6] From there, starting with her mother, several kin of Louise and Louise herself, then living in Philadelphia, joined the Bahá'í Faith in just a few years,[6][11] foremost among them was an aunt of hers, later named a Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Isabella Dixon Brittingham who had married Louise' uncle James Francis Brittingham of Princess Anne,[12] with whom Charlotte and family lived in 1880.[13] Charlotte was in Washington DC circa 1898,[14] and was soon off on pilgrimage with her daughters. They introduced the Faith to Agnes Alexander on their return trip from Bahá'í pilgrimage in November 1900.[15][16][17] Charlotte (Emma) was employed as a stenographer living with Louise in DC,[2] after their return and in 1903 was the community secretary during the stay of Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl[18]
DC Society[edit]
Louise applied for a passport September 27, 1900, with witness E. R. Boyle, her soon to be husband, of Hyattsville, Maryland. Louise was a stenographer, 5'2", blue eyes, and had light brown hair. She (they?) was set to embark on a four month trip overseas.[3] The marriage of Louise Dixon and Eldridge R. Boyle was two years later, September 15, 1902.[19][20] His name was Eldridge Roger Boyle[21] and would most often go by his middle name. He was born January 12, 1876,[22] in Lexington, Virginia.[23] He was 6'1" 180 lbs, grey eyes and dark brown hair,[22] graduated from Randolph-Macon Academy and Randolph-Macon College and in 1900 was awarded a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from George Washington University.[24] His father was born in Baltimore, died in 1895, and his mother was from Maryland too.[25]
Boyle was active in DC society and visiting in Maryland[26] while Eldridge worked in civil engineering.[27] However Boyle was already making compilations of the teachings of the Bahá'í Faith.[28] A son was born to them in May 1907.[29]
The Dixon-Boyle-Doyle family of mother and daughters returned from another pilgrimage in July 1909,[30] and were visible in the news.[31] Mother Charlotte applied for a passport 9 Oct 1909,[5] and was still living with them in April 1910 renting on Wisconsin Ave still earning her own income.[32] DC Bahá'ís held "Fete Day" of `Abdu’l-Bahá, today named the Day of the Covenant, November 26, 1910, and among the supporters of the event were the Boyle family including Louise Dixon Boyle, Emily Dixon, and Eleanor Dixon Doyle.[33] A daughter was born to the couple in June 1911.[34]
Encouraged[edit]
Boyle met with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá three times during the journey to America.[11] One of them was in Washington.[35] During a third meeting, in Philadelphia, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá gave her many instructions.[4] Boyle was deeply interested in social issues and in the progressive ideas that were current in society[4] and was encouraged to address Bahá'í themes as well with the first fruit being the article “Meeting the Capacity of the Seeker” which was reviewed and endorsed by `Abdu’l-Bahá and published in Star of the West dated 17 May 1913.[4][36] It emphasized the diversity of humanity and their expressions and how to address the individuals with Bahá'í teachings and the troubled position of religion in society.
"Around the significance of divinity there has accumulated a false atmosphere, due to our human association of it with the tangible. And it is inevitable, in the dawn of a new spiritual age, that many souls - possibly destined for a particular activity in it - should experience a reaction in turning from their old conceptions. It is this reaction, perhaps, rather than an essential incapacity or antagonism, which withholds many from a full acceptance of the Bahai (sic) teachings. Such should represent so large a proportion of the thinking people in the world today that is is impossible to confuse their spirit with that of the anti-christ; although, undoubtedly, many of them, in searching hither and thither for truth, will permit the brief span of their lives to pass unsatisfied.… (and out of the community, in the face of confusion, arose the need she quotes ‘Abdu’l-Bahá)"It is most difficult to administer to such heterogeneous elements. Wisdom and divine insight are necessary. Firmness and steadfastness are needed to such a crucial period of the Cause."… (and that) ‘Abdu’l-Bahá assumed the mantle of servitude … (and quotes again) "We must first teach the people about the Lord of the Covenant, who is His Holiness Baha'o'llah (sic)."[36]
Around this Boyle continued community services such as with the Ladies Auxiliary of a Woman's Clinic,[37] began to be visible in supporting the Montessori work in education,[38] and visiting.[39] In early 1914 the DC Bahá'í community was divided about the degree of racial integration.[40] Some favored renting a public hall that would not accept blacks which would be a venue to attract upper class white society. Others felt this was against the policy of integration and exampled by `Abdu’l-Bahá. A third position of not seeking a Center was held by Boyle who saw benefits for the community of giving up the old rental hall for meetings which encouraged meetings in homes and diverse places to which more diverse individuals would gather and be places people of true representation of the virtues of the Faith could shine - that the energy devoted to the influence of a Center or objectifying “the color question” were diversions from real personal action: “…in having the color element in meetings of strangers, to the evolved Bahai (sic) it is a sign of Truth, to the stranger it is an unintelligible sign.”[40] Ultimately the community did hear from `Abdu’l-Bahá who was grieved over the division and designated favored black only, white only, and integrated meetings, by May. The mix of meetings proved unstable and in stages through October and December the public stance of integration were affirmed and divided community was eschewed.
Meanwhile Boyle also chaired an arrangements committee for the Montessori Educational Association in May,[41][4] Though not present for a conference of the National Education Association in July, Boyle submitted a paper entitled "The Montessori message - true education the basis of a new Civilization”.[42]
Eldridge's company undertook the construction of the American Red Cross Building which was dedicated as a memorial to the women of the Civil War[24] begun 1915 and completed by 1917.[43] Meanwhile son Eldridge Jr. graduated from Sidwell Friends School[44] in 1916,[45] Boyle attended a debut of a soprano in DC society,[46] and was on the Capital Garden Club executive committee.[47]
As the World War expanded, in 1918 Eldridge Sr registered for the draft. He may have been assigned to the Div 43 of Massachusetts.[22] Boyle received a letter from `Abdu’l-Bahá while she was in Miami in 1919. She had send a letter to `Abdu’l-Bahá December 1918. `Abdu’l-Bahá's letter refers to the trials humanity goes through and suffers to turn towards God including mention of hurricanes. The letter was translated by Shoghi Rabbani February 1, 1919.[48][49] In April Boyle was at a publicized meeting of the religion with Charles Mason Remey in Miami,[50] who had been undertaken a tour of the South and written up a report about.[51] Meanwhile among those many signing the supplication in Star of the West for the return of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to the US were Charlotte Emily Dixon, Susan Emily Doyle, Louise Dixon Boyle and (E) Roger Boyle.[52] But January 16, 1920, Eldridge applied for a passport to go to the British West Indies and Cuba for purpose of health and return via Key West or Miami.[23] Beatrice Irwin was a house guest and given a reception at the Boyle's home in DC in January as well.[53]
Though the date(s) of communication are unknown, Boyle was in communication with Margaret Wilson, eldest daughter of President Woodrow Wilson.[54]
National service[edit]

Boyle was among the names of women considered for election to the Executive Board of the Baha’i Temple Unity in 1920 and was elected to the precursor of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. And during the report of the Fund for the Bahá'í Temple it was reported the two Boyle children of DC had donated a $100 liberty bond from their Christmas savings.[55] Eldridge did an estimate of the Remey proposal of Temple.[56] Boyle acted as point of contact for contributions for the Tarbiat Bahá'í School in Persia at 2602 Wisconsin Ave,[57] which they owned.[25] Boyle led a summer camp for "Baha'i Juniors" with arts and crafts at the Willow Cote cottage at Green Acre,[58] with further work there in July/August.[59]
In early October Boyle attended a black New York church that was hosting Bahá'í meetings which was part of the series of articles about the Faith.[60] Boyle wrote a letter for the Executive Committee of the Bahá'í Temple Unity which announced the acceptance of the Bourgeois plan for the House of Worship and on its meeting in August at which Eldridge consulted and resulted in a reduced plan and estimated cost of $1.5 million.[61] A number of updates for the community were presented:
- Contracts were signed for the beginning of the work and already trees had been removed to prepare for leveling of the land and digging deep borings to find and reach bedrock for the foundations of the building.
- The Bahá'í supervising engineer was Allen McDaniel with support from Eldridge.
- Updating architectural drawings began and plans about stages of the further work were announced.
- A process of communication via the delegates to the national convention and the secretary of each Bahá'í community was initiated for correspondence on the work of raising the Temple and the funds needed.
- A summary of coverage the planned Temple was presented reviewing various newspapers, magazines, and exhibitions and materials would be developed for presenting the reality of the Temple before the public.
- It ended minding the "progressive thinkers who are ready for the vision we have to offer and eager to lend their support to such an effort."[61]
Boyle then wrote an update in November for the contributions for the Tarbiat school.[62] First, that with the demise of Joseph Hannen as lead treasurer for the Persian American Education Association, the channel of the scholarship to the school, Boyle herself was now lead treasurer and the contributions should be sent to her at the Hadleigh Hotel, Washington, DC. She also announced a memorial fund for Hannen had been established. About the same time She also began working as the secretary of the DC Scout Captains' Club[63] and fundraising for the Girl Scouts,[64] notice of which continued into early 1921.[65] Boyle was among those that spoke at the convention in April,[66] and in the May Ridvan event Boyle chaired the Tuesday evening program of the convention. She was also listed as a member of the Baha’i Temple Unity (with women Corinne True and May Maxwell.)[67] Boyle also read a prayer at the convention.[68]
Plans began to come together for the first Race Amity Convention placed under the charge of Agnes Parsons held May 19-21, 1921 at the First Congregational Church in DC.[69] Parsons credited Boyle with being the catalyst of advancing the planning because she arranged a meeting with ex-senator Moses E. Clapp, (though Boyle kept noting he was of Nebraska he was of Minnesota who had sympathies with the NAACP in DC though in the early days it was overrun with politicking of which Clapp distanced himself,)[70] and hosted a meeting of Parsons and Clapp in the Boyle home.[71] The ex-Senator suggested avoiding a protest or political platform and instead strike a positive approach while the Bahá'ís came towards it raising the emphasis of deeds over words and dissatisfaction with the rhetoric of political approaches.[72] She was ultimately on the arrangements committee with Martha Root and Agnes Parsons.[73] For 1921-2 Boyle was a vice-chair of the Bahá'í Temple Unity Executive Board.[74] The end of that summer, thieves stole several people's cars, including Eldridge, and were arrested.[75] The end of the year Eldridge was among plaintiffs against a bank.[76] The summer of 1922 Boyle bought the 2119 Connecticut Avenue home.[77] In spring 1923 Boyle wrote summarizing Bahá'í community activity in DC and thankfulness for the Guardianship as successor to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.[78] The community was active enough to have meetings most nights and more than a few meetings week days. In January 1924 it was announced that contributions for the Tarbiat School could go to Boyle at 2119 Connecticut Ave.[79] In May Boyle was among those appointed to an Amity Convention Committee by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States (NSA) which managed the Race Amity Conventions.[80] Boyles handed off the Tarbiat School Fund to Genevieve L. Coy at an unknown date before 1926.[81] Boyle was part of a Bahá'í panel at along with Alfredo Warsaw and Alma Knobloch in February,[82] and was re-elected to the NSA in 1924.[83] Boyle supported Race Amity Convention in Philadelphia in October,[84] including working on publicity for the meeting.[85]
In January 1925 Boyle wrote an article "Education in the New Age".[86] She said in part:
"This new springtime is not confined to one country or one continent, … expresses itself … through an increased demand for education in general; through a growing realization of the dependence of true democracy upon right principles in education; and through a new consciousness of the need to set free in the child (italics in the original) those inner creative forces which must sustain and enrich the life of man.… fostered in large measure by the women of America, to introduce a Department of Education…. The American Association of University Women… have recently decided to devote from five to ten years' intensive study to the problems of elementary education and the pre-school child… the National Education Association of America… call a World Conference on Education… (mentions several anthropologists draws attention to Giuseppe Sergi's ideas of educational anthropology and Maria Montessori[87] focusing on) child-life - the environment of far greater freedom than the traditional school. The effort to provide opportunity for spontaneous activity and permit children to react, without dominations, to educative stimuli…. Education today is pregnant with a new psychology. It touches a new chord in man - a chord always latent in the heart, but awaiting the required stimulus to be quickened…. It has been well said that in the absolute gentleness and sweetness of the child we may read the infancy of that humanity which remains oppressed by every form of yoke and every injustice; while in the child's intense love of knowledge… we may read the truth that humanity carries deeply within itself the power and the passion which urges the minds of men to successive triumphs of thought, and to those spiritual victories which shall ultimately remove every injustice and every form of slavery.… Dare we not hope that the New Education thus regenerated from its foundation upon a basis of spiritual values may go far toward solving the great problem of human redemption?[86]
Boyle presented about the Faith in the South at the 1925 national convention held at Green Acre in July and presented a database of the known Baha’is.[88] Many cities or some states had one or two Bahá'ís but had sometimes taken too strident actions and been arrested before getting Gregory’s advise against such strident actions. One focus of the presentation was on Miami with seven Bahá'ís. Parsons resigned from the Regional Teaching Committee for the Southern States Region and Boyle was named chair the committee.[89] She gave a report at convention,[90][91] Gregory proceeded to Miami and the area for the winter of 1925-6.[88] See also Howard MacNutt. Boyle also spent the winter of 1925-6 in Miami.[92] Boyle has been in Miami and meetings had been held by the community in autumn 1925 to spring 1926.[93] In 1926 the NSA called a group together to consult on the status of the Race Amity efforts including Boyle whom Gregory singled out in the same breath with Alain Locke as “particularly well informed with regard to the inter-racial work in the Southern States”. Among the recommendations was appointment of a Race Amity Committee to which Boyle was also appointed.[94] Boyle had been at Green Acre in the north by later spring 1926.[95] In January 1927 Boyle gave a talk on the Faith in DC.[96] In early 1927 Boyle questioned the dynamics characterizing the Race Amity Committee.[97] She observed it being governed by a conservative paternalistic approach which strongly contrasted with the advances being done by others. Nevertheless she was named to the committee again,[98] and was back at Green Acre after the convention the same year Green Acre was put under the authority of the national assembly.[99] Boyle was also on the national Publicity Committee.[100]
In 1928 Boyle co-wrote a review of Green Acre with Horace Holley,[101][102] and was again named to the Inter-Racial Amity Committee,[103] which offered up its report in 1929.[104]
Boyle dropped from visibility from 1929 until 1931. As the work progressed on the Bahá'í Temple Eldridge contributed to consultation on architecture/engineering work.[105] Boyle returned to visibility with a talk at the Bahá'í Center in Baltimore in March 1931.[106] Their son Eldridge Jr. married Sarah Patton in November 1932.[107] The Boyles hosted visitors in 1933,[108] however before mid-spring 1933 Boyle was commented on by Australian C. A. Wragg and Louis Gregory amidst a tour among 11 cities of Virginia that in Charlottesville Boyle had arranged an interracial meeting ahead of their coming.[109]
Another couple years go by including Boyle and son living in Lexington while Eldridge was ill,[110] Boyle then contributed a talk among a series in DC,[111] Daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle married in October,[112][9] and Boyle was named to the Contacts Committee of the National Assembly.[113] Boyle was also the contact for the DC Assembly living at 1915 Sixteenth, ST , NW, in later 1936.[114] Boyle was again a member of the Contacts Committee in 1937.[115] Eldridge was on a technical committee to resume Temple construction in 1937.[116] In later 1937 Boyle wrote an article "The laboratory of life" in World Order,[117] and also published separately.[118][119] The text was about the reconciliation of science and religion.
"There would seem no longer room for doubt concerning the reconciliation of religion and science in the view of the developments in science during the present century.… There was never an essential cleavage. Religion and science were always one - in the search for truth by faith. … in the contemplative life of the scholastic period the fountains of thought were fed from the source of true religion and gave rise eventually to Experimental Science, the spirit of "positive" research, so clearly the quest for fundamental truth.… Some years ago a group of the distinguished leaders in science and religion issued a brief outline "It is a sublime conception of God which is furnished by science, and one wholly consonant with the highest ideals of religion…" (she continues referencing new theories like relativity and quantum mechanics and quotes Max Plank extensively and others.) Surely, looking backward in the future, the present century must be seen as the beginning of the period described by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and associated in His though with universal peace - the discovery of the "new and hidden sciences," to revolutionize all the conditions of existence. The new body of thought which attends the rising of the Prophet provides at once the proof of His validity and the interpretation of His Teaching. (She then ends with quotes Bahá'u'lláh about nature.)[118][120]
Boyle and friend Ethel Murray settled in Richmond, Virginia, some months of the Seven Year Plan (1937-1944) before 1942, circa 1937-9,[121] and continued in support of the work of the Race Unity Committee.[122] After another couple years of relative silence in coverage, and Boyle's mother Charlotte Dixon who died in February 1939,[123] Boyle then wrote another article for World Order "The Medial Man" which came out in April,[124] the idea of which was of interest to Montessori as well,[125] on the work of Adolphe Quetelet:
During the years marking the early manhood of Bahá'u'lláh, while illumined minds in Persia awaited the promised Advent, a philosopher and scientist of Europe evolved an arresting concept - the theory of the Medial Man, or type of human perfection, as the touchstone in a new approach to the study of man.… Quetelet declared the medial man in relation to his epoch "as the center of gravity to bodies," the one thing to be considered in order to understand the phenomena of equilibrium and movement.… The necessity of men of genius and the error committed in supposing them to spring up accidentally is demonstrated when we consider the immense time required for a great truth, after it has been shadowed forth, to diffuse itself and descend to the mass of people, producing its result. (She continues reviewing on through work of Giacinto Viola until she comes to Montessori taking up the topic) "The medial intellectual man is closely bound to the thoughts of his century; he incarnated the prevailing ideas of his time; he vibrates in response to the majority… Considered from the ideal side, the medial man ought to centralize in himself and keep in himself in equilibrium the movement of thought of his period, giving it harmonic form in works of art or science. And it is the capacity of accomplishing this work of synthesis that constitutes the inborn quality (italics in original) in the man of genius."… The medial intellectual man who has produced this result is a beneficent genius to humanity because he aids its upward progress by appealing to the better part of each individual.…While there has never existed a medial intellectual man who sums up all the thought of his time just there does not exist a living man so beautiful as to incarnate all the medial measurements, the man of genius, is he who does embody some part of such ideas…. One of the early objections to the theory of Quetelet was the presumption that there could not be any one perfect human model because of the diversity of races of mankind…. Upon this … Dr. Montessori provide(s) much illuminating thought (that there is mostly no "pure" race and that intermixtures are the norm and) "civilized men, who are the most hybrid of all the hybrids upon earth, have formed a new type which is almost unique, the civilized race, in which one and all resemble one another.…There is no intention of implying that humanity is tending toward the incarnation of perfectly beautiful beings,…but they will be harmonious in those skeletal proportions… (and) the soft tissues, the color of hair and eyes, may upon this foundation give an infinite variety of beauty.… A living man who … almost as though it were Christ himself whom humanity was striving to emulate, through a most intimate brotherhood of all the people on earth." (and then draws parallels to such ideas from Bahá'í Writings and sees in the model) …The archetypes of virtue.[124]
Later days[edit]
The Boyles' permanent address in their final years was on Mintwood Place, NW in DC dating back to April 1, 1935.[126] By 1940 Eldridge was an engineer in Public Works Administration earning $4000/yr.
The years passed quietly in terms of newspaper coverage. Boyle did write letters to the editor in 1944 reviewing Bahá'í teachings,[127] and Eldridge still contributed to the construction of the Temple.[128] In fact he died approaching two years later in May 1946.[24] Among Eldridge's other work was the DC Unitarian Universalist Church and others, Mount Vernon Seminary, medical and homes for the aged, DC railways and roads in Prince Georges County, Maryland and then opened an independent office for the PWA.
Boyle died May 4, 1953, in Charlottesville, Virginia, of metastasized colon cancer about 4am while under care from a doctor since November 1952,[1] while visiting her son University of Virginia professor Eldridge R Boyle Jr.[9] She was buried in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.[9][129][130]
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