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...Pasadena, Calif...
...Pasadena, Calif...
Lahore to Pasadena. At first he thought he might want to be a missionary, but a year of teaching at missionary-run Forman College in Lahore. India (now Pakistan), killed his enthusiasm for a missionary career. Returning home in 1929, Blake married Valina Gillespie and spent the first year of his seminary training studying theology at New College, Edinburgh, then went back to Princeton Seminary until his ordination...
...ought to shout more." He decided that he was "a better popularizer than a scholar," and should give up a hankering he had for seminary teaching. He got a call to Albany's First Presbyterian Church, went on five years later to the Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, Calif., where he stayed for eleven years before the General Assembly elected him Stated Clerk...
...married muckraking Socialist Crusader Upton Sinclair in 1913, devoted the rest of her life to his myriad causes (vegetarianism, Prohibition and three campaigns for the governorship of California), his writing (75 books) and, finally, to keeping him "at home and out of mischief"; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Herself the author of sonnets and a sprightly autobiography, Southern Belle, she described "Uppie" as "a dual personality-a helpless child in his personal affairs and a brave and skillful fighter in the cause he loved...