Peter Abbelen, 74, German American vicar general of the archdiocese of Milwaukee who, in 1886, submitted a memorial to Pope Leo XIII requesting that Catholic parishes in America be drawn up along ethnic lines, 24 August 1917.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, 88, popular religious writer and novelist, 10 March 1919.

Harrison D. Barrett, 47, first president of the National Spiritualist Association; he once defended in court a medium accused of witchcraft, 12 January 1911.

Borden Parker Bowne, 63, professor of philosophy at Boston University, 1 April 1910.

Phineas Bresee, 76, founding father of the Holiness Church of the Nazarene, 13 November 1915.

Charles Augustus Briggs, 72, theologian and biblical scholar tried for heresy by the Presbyterian Church in 1892, 8 June 1913.

Henry Harrison Brown, 77, Unitarian minister and founder of "Now" Folk, an early New Thought group, 8 May 1918.

Francis Xavier Cabrini, 67, Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart; in 1946 she became the first American canonized by the Roman Catholic...