Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf became active in the Chicago Bahá’í community. When the Chicago Bahá’ís elected their first governing council, about March 16, 1900, he was one of the ten members. Charles with Thornton

When I found out it was a religion, I ordered them out of my house. No way was I going to allow anyone with a fancy religion into my house. I had had

He would bundle a few pairs of socks under his arm and peddle them as he wandered through the streets and bázárs, and thieves would rob him of his merchandise.

Maryam was born approximately in 1826 in the village of Fuyúl in the Núr District. There is no information available about her childhood or adolescent life. She married Bahá’u’lláh’s half-brother Mirzá Ridá Quli in