People from Sagadahoc County, Maine - People from Bath, Maine, Frank Sandford, Elbridge Streeter Brooks, Bret Gilliam, Charles W. Morse (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: People from Bath, Maine, Frank Sandford, Elbridge Streeter Brooks, Bret Gilliam, Charles W. Morse, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Eames, McDonald Clarke, Silas Soule, Georgia Cayvan, Pop Williams, John Hart, William Phips, Holman S. Melcher, Seth Berry, Henry Gannett, Francis H. Fassett, Wilmot Brookings, Sumner Sewall, George Frederick Magoun, Eleanor Humes Haney, Charles Frederick Hughes, Arthur Sewall, Francis B. Stockbridge, Geerd Hendel, Franklin Simmons, William Zorach, William King, Thomas W. Hyde, Mike McHugh, William Dunn, Robert Browne Hall, Claude Demetrius, Glenn Cummings, Daniel Wilkinson, Thomas Gustave Plant, Robert Jaffe, William Bacon Stevens, John Adams Jackson, Amos Nourse, Peter A. Garland, William Maxwell Reed, William Smith, Bobby Messenger, William LeBaron Putnam, Freeman H. Morse, William Henry Harrison Seeley, David Bronson, Samuel Davis, Benjamin Randall, Harold M. Sewall, Peleg Tallman, Nathaniel S. Berry, Franklin Burroughs, George P. Sewall. Excerpt: Frank Weston Sandford (October 2, 1862 - March 4, 1948) was the founder and leader of an apocalyptic Christian sect, informally called "Shiloh" and eventually known officially as "The Kingdom." Sandford was early attracted to premillennialism, the Higher Life movement, the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, and divine healing; and in the 1890s, he created a communal society in coastal Maine whose members "lived on faith" rather than being gainfully employed. Considered by former members and many neighbors to be a crank and an autocrat who insisted on unquestioning loyalty, Sandford-who had identified himself with the biblical Elijah and David-was convicted of manslaughter in 1911 and served seven years in a federal penitentiary. His absence retarded the growth of his small sect; but it survived, in attenuated form, into the 21st century. Sandf...