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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged 31, rector, St. Paul's Church, Syracuse, N.Y., an important and influential parish...
Aged 41, became national secretary of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. He was a vigorous Prohibitor and claimed to speak for the entire Church. No Churchman contradicted him strenuously. His Society purported to fight intemperance in drinking, drug-taking, eating...
Aged 49, developed the Health Education Society, as an adjunct of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. Wrote a book, Intestinal Gardening. Opened a Health Education Society Clinic in Manhattan, to cure alcoholism, drug addiction, dietary ills. He hired a medical staff, advertised for patients, earned $500 a month. This vexed New York doctors who complained to the municipal board of health. His priesthood repelled investigation as it attracted him patients, especially female patients. Although he had licensed physicians on his staff, he frequently examined patients himself, persuading women (many have complained to city health authorities) to strip naked except...
Aged 53 (last year), the Episcopal Church House of Bishops, at Washington, resolved that "This House definitely declared that the Episcopal Church Temperance Society has no official standing in this Church." After warnings from the New York City Health Department, in September he closed the Health Education Society Clinic. Very quickly his clinic reopened (as quack outfits do) at another address and with another name, the Emanuel Institute...
...plagiarizing part of his book Intestinal Gardening. He sued his wife for divorce at Reno, charging cruelty, and won. Five days later he married a Mrs. Vasilieff Safrom at an out of the way Mexican town. He lost his job as national secretary of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. He disappeared...