Blanche Pentecost Bagley

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the executive board of the Unity Club a literary organization, a charter member of the board of directors of the Woman's Benevolent Association, a member of the Minister's Association, and with her husband, joint chair of the executive committer of the Equal Suffrage Association. She was a member of the

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During their residence in South Dakota, Bagley took an active interest in all public issues and moral reforms in that State. She usually conducted the evening services in the church and occasionally assisted in the morning service. She was also assistant superintendent of the Sunday school, chair of

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138:, to which he had received a call. The couple were ordained and installed together there as joint pastors on 17 November of that year, the ceremony being the first of that kind in history. It was a returning to the 64:. Her mother was Agnes Towry (née, Ashbee; 1824–1894). There were several younger siblings including Brenda, Agnes, Richard, Robert, Douglas, Edith, Spencer, Stanley, and Septimus. Three brothers became architects. 99:, but she became a Unitarian while visiting a sister, whose husband, the Rev. Frederick Blount Mott, was then studying for the Unitarian ministry. By them, she was induced to enter the 119:, where she spent the summer of 1887. She had first met her future husband, the Rev. James E. Bagley (1868-1899), in Meadville, where they had entered and left school together. 734: 173:, a four-page monthly paper published in the interests of the Wollaston Unitarian society was issued with seven joint editors, including Mr. and Mrs. Bagley. 692: 764: 744: 749: 103:, from which institution she was graduated in 1889. Two years prior, her first experience of preaching, outside of the college chapel, was in 293:

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in 1889, the ceremony being the first of that kind in history. Bagley sang, played the piano, painted, and was interested in

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She was also local superintendent of the department of scientific temperance instruction in connection with the

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Bagley was an accomplished pianist and had an inherited gift for painting. She had an unusually strong, clear

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After Blanche and James married, on September 4, 1889, she accompanied her husband to All Souls Church,

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voice, with a distinct articulation, which made it easy for her to be heard by the largest audiences.

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minister. She and her husband were ordained and installed together as joint pastors in a pulpit in

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In 1901, she was living at the Villa Le Bosquet, Dinard Street, Enggat,

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Pentecost received her early education partly in private schools in

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