| LC control no. | n 83208205 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sandford, Frank W., 1862-1948 |
| Variant(s) | Sandford, F. W. (Frank W.), 1862-1948 |
| Located | Shiloh (Me.) |
| Birth date | 1862-10-02 |
| Death date | 1948-03 |
| Place of birth | Bowdoinham (Me.) |
| Field of activity | Preaching Religious communities |
| Affiliation | Bates College (Lewiston, Me.) Free Will Baptists (1780?-1911) Coronet (Schooner) Kingdom Christian Ministries |
| Profession or occupation | Religious leaders |
| Found in | His Seven years with God, 1957. Gates, H. More than a prophet, c1990: t.p. (F.W. Sandford) NUCMC data from Maine Hist. Soc. for His Letters, ca. 1899 (F.W. Sandford; founder of the communal religious group in Durham, Me., known as Shiloh) Finding aid for William Hiss collection of Shiloh material, viewed May 20, 2021: Historical note (Frank Weston Sandford ... was [born] on October 2, 1862, in Bowdoinham, Maine ... Sandford was ordained a Freewill Baptist minister ... He soon founded The Kingdom as an evangelistic, apocalyptic Christian movement. A few years later, in 1896, Sandford and several others began construction of a Bible school in Durham, ME, called Shiloh. Shiloh would eventually grow into a self-contained town of over 600 people ... Sandford and some of his followers made the first of several voyages around the world on the schooner Coronet in 1907 ... Sandford continued to lead his followers while in strict seclusion until his death in March 1948) <https://bates-archives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/124> |
| Associated language | eng |
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