Thornton Chase
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Thornton Chase (February 22, 1847 – September 30, 1912) was the first American convert to the Baha'i Faith.
Thornton Chase was born to Sarah Thornton Chase and Jotham Chase in Springfield, Massachusetts; he was raised a Baptist. At the age of sixteen, he applied to Brown University and was accepted, he however, postponed going to college to participate in the American Civil War.
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