National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the U.S.
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Wilmette
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2009
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Encyclopedia
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Biography
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Thornton Chase;First Bahais by country or area
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Chase, Thornton
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The Bahá'í Encyclopedia
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On the first person in the West to become a steadfast Bahá’í, one of the founders of the Chicago Bahá’í community, included by Shoghi Effendi among a number of prominent early Bahá’ís he designated "Disciples of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá."