William Channing Gannett: In 1895 he published “The House Beautiful”. In 1896-7 it was published by The Auvergne Press which was established by two of Wright's clients, William H. Winslow and Chauncey L. Williams in the stable designed for Winslow. He was born on March 13, 1840 in Boston, Massachusetts. Gannett was educated at Harvard, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1860 and his Masters of Arts degree in 1863. During the 1860s, he also spent three years working with freed African Americans in Port Royal, South Carolina. From 1865 to 1866, he toured Europe. He then returned to Harvard. In 1868 he graduated from its Divinity School and became a Unitarian minister.
From his earliest years in the ministry, Gannett adopted the mantle of reform. While pastor of the Unitarian church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1868-1870), he actively participated in Milwaukee’s woman suffrage convention in 1869, and was vice president of the state’s woman’s suffrage association. In 1908, Gannett retired from active duty as pastor of Rochester’s Unitarian Church and assumed the title pastor emeritus. He died on December 15, 1923.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones: was born in 1843. The uncle of the architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, He became a Unitarian minister in Chicago. He became Missionary Secretary of the Western Unitarian Conference and editor of the liberal religious weekly, Unity. In 1889 Jones became a strong supporter of the Hull House Settlement that had been established by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in the run-down Nineteenth Ward of Chicago. An opponent of child labour and supporter of the early trade union movement, gave lectures at Hull House to recently arrived immigrants from Europe. Jenkin Lloyd Jones died in 1918
He was the author of numerous works, among them is this volume. Although Jones was the most powerful western figure in the denomination, he encountered friction from the American Unitarian Association (AUA) because of his independent course and friction within the WUC because of his theological radicalism. In 1882 Jones reorganized the Fourth Unitarian Society in Chicago as All Souls Church, and a decade later he played a central role in the World's Parliament of Religions, which brought together a number of world religious leaders. The conference seemed a step toward Jones's dream of a universal church for humankind. He ended his career as director of the Abraham Lincoln Centre in Chicago, where he continued to be a voice of reform. In his last years, he spoke as a pacifist in opposition to World War I.
YEAR TITLE AUTHOR DESCRIPTION PAGES ST# 1907 The Faith That Makes Faithful (This version published by James Pott & Company, New York. First published in 1896 by Charles H. Kerr & Company) Gannett, William Channing; Jones, Jenkin Lloyd A book of sermons by two Unitarian ministers. Eight chapters, four by each. Both having connections to Frank Lloyd Wright. 4.5 x 6. (Second Edition) Pp 228 0080.04.1206
