FRANK, HENRY: 1854-1933.
Born in Lafayette, Ind., on Dec. 21, 1854, Henry Frank , son of Jacob H. and Henrietta Auerbach Frank, graduated from Chicago High School in 1871 and from Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1874. He was a student at Harvard in 1874. In 1876-77 he was professor of literature and history at Cornell College in Iowa. After serving for a number of years as a Methodist minister, in 1886 he became pastor of the Congregational Church in Jamestown, N. Y., and in 1888 he renounced orthodoxy and originated the Independent Congregational Church at Jamestown . In 1897 he founded the Metropolitan Society of New York . He went to San Francisco in 1917, where he founded and was a leader of the People's Liberal Church. He died on July 31, 1933.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- The Skeleton and the Rose, and Gems by the Wayside.
New York, 1886.
- His Bold Experiment. New York.
- The Doom of Dogma and the Dawn of Truth.
New York, 1901.
(Reissued in 1911, as The Doom of Dogma and the
Triumph of Truth.)
- The Shrine of Silence: a Book of Meditations; with Some
Embellishments by H. B. Reissman. New York,
1901.
- The Scientific Demonstration of the Soul's Existence
and Immortality. New York, 1903.
- Kingdom of Love. New York, 1907.
- The Mastery of Mind in the Making of a Man.
New York, 1908.
- Modern Light on Immortality.
Boston, 1909.
- The Tragedy of Hamlet: a Psychological Study.
Boston, 1910.
- Psychic Phenomena, Science and Immortality.
Boston, 1911.
- The Story of America Sketched in Sonnets.
Boston, 1911.
- The Clash of Thrones; a Series of Sonnets on the European
War. Boston, 1915.
- The Challenge of the War; Can Science Answer the Riddle of
the Grave?
Boston, 1919.
- The Last Enigma; a Philosophical Poem. 1924.
- Optimism or Pessimism: Which Is the More Reasonable
Philosophy of Life?
Girard, Kan., 1924.
- Jesus: a Modern Study. New York,
1930.
