August J. Stenstrand

This was August J. Stenstrand who during the period of Behaist decline became a follower of Subh-i Azal, and having been unanimously voted out of the “First Central Church of the Manifestation” of the “Society of the Behaists of America” in May 1906, proceeded to circulate a series of five ‘Calls of Attention to the Behaists or Babists of America.” Stenstrand like Kheiralla later found the occasional place for his ideas in the columns of the Baha'i periodical Reality, during its period of heterodoxy (1922-29).

Studies in Bábí and Bahá’í History/The American Bahá’í Community, 1894–1917: A Preliminary Survey