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Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley.
Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley.

Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley

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Katherine Augusta Westcott
Born:
July 6, 1847, Newbury, Mass., U.S.
Died:
July 11, 1929, Visingsö, Swed. (aged 82)
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Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley (born July 6, 1847, Newbury, Mass., U.S.—died July 11, 1929, Visingsö, Swed.) was an American theosophist, a woman of forceful personality, who introduced charitable works and educational endeavours into the mission of the Theosophical Society in America during her leadership of that group. Katherine Westcott was educated in public schools and briefly in a convent school in Montreal. In 1888 in New York City she married her third husband, Philo B. Tingley. She was interested in various charitable activities as well as in spiritualism, and in her mission work on the Lower East Side she often ...(100 of 446 words)

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