William Newton Hartshorn

William Newton Hartshorn (October 28, 1843 – September 1920) was a Baptist leader from the United States who travelled the world and became a millionaire advocating Sunday school and leading the "Sabbath army". He was born in Greenville, New Hampshire.[1] He lived in Boston.[2] He led a large tour and convention through Palestine and published an account of the journey with Louis Klopsch.[3] He was an executive officer at the Priscilla Publishing Company in Boston.[3]

He had a summer home at Clifton on the North Shore of Massachusetts known as "Dike Rock".[3]

In 1898 and 1899 he was issuing a publication called Household.[4]

He published a book about "progress and promise" among African Americans from the Civil War era to 1910.[5]

  1. ^ "W.N. HARTSHORN WAS WIDELY KNOWN BAPTIST". The Cambridge Chronicle. September 11, 1920.
  2. ^ "Napa Weekly Journal 25 November 1910 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu.
  3. ^ a b c Boston Herald obituary as reprinted on Findagrave
  4. ^ "Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and Other Articles". U.S. Government Printing Office. October 31, 1899 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Hartshorn, W. N. (William Newton), 1843-1920 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.