Frederick Bosworth
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Frederick Francis Bosworth (1877 - 1958)

Rev. Frederick Francis Bosworth
Born in Utica, Seward, Nebraska, United Statesmap
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Died at age 81 in Miami, Dade, Florida, United Statesmap
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Biography

Frederick Francis Bosworth was born on 17 Jan 1877 to parents Frederick Burton Bosworth and Amelia Mellisa Brydia. He married Florence Naomi Valentine on 30 Oct 1922 in Manhattan, New York. Children: Frederick Francis Jr., Robert Valentine, Vivian, Ann Athabell. He died on 23 Jan 1958 in Miami, Florida.

"Fred Francis Bosworth (January 17, 1877 – January 23, 1958) was an evangelist, an early religious broadcaster, and a 1920s and Depression-era Pentecostal faith healer who was later a bridge to the mid-20th century healing revival. He was born on a farm near Utica, Nebraska and was raised in a Methodist home. His Methodist experiences also included salvation at the age of 16 or 17, and a spontaneous healing from major lung problems a couple years later. Bosworth's life after that was one that followed Christian principles, though his church affiliation changed several times over the years. Several years after his healing he attended Alexander Dowie's church in Zion City, Illinois, then came into Pentecost and attended Pentecostal services. Most of his later ministry was associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance church.

When Bosworth came into a Pentecostal experience in 1906, he had an intense desire to preach the gospel, leaving his business pursuits and stepping out in faith for his subsistence. Approximately 1909 he moved to Texas, and in 1910 he started a church in Dallas which was loosely affiliated with the Alliance church. He was one of the founders of the Assemblies of God in 1914 and was with them until 1918 when he had a disagreement on the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and withdrew. He then started another church in Dallas, affiliating with the Alliance church again, and his revival meetings in the 1920s were sponsored by the Christian and Missionary Alliance church. During the 1920s he was known for his "big tent revival" and large auditorium meetings and his advocacy of faith healing, with people from all denominations attending. He was with the Alliance church until around 1934, then affiliated with them again in 1944. Starting around 1930 he began one of the early successful gospel radio ministries. Today he is best known for his book Christ the Healer which went through 7 editions in his lifetime and now has over 500,000 copies in print."

F. F. Bosworth was an American evangelist and revivalist[1].

EVANGELIST F. F. BOSWORTH IS DEAD AT 81
Services for the Rev. Fred F. Bosworth, 81, internationally known evangelist who died in his home in Miami, will be held in Miami Monday. In Chicago, in the 1920s, he acquired a reputation as a faith healer.
He was born in Utica, Neb., and was reared in Zion, Lake county, where he became director of the Zion concert band. After he entered the ministry, he and his brother, Bert B., a Zion postoffice clerk, toured the country, Later he conducted services in South Africa, Cuba, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan. He formerly lived in River Forest.
Survivors include his widow, Florence; two daughters, Mrs. Vivian Ferguson and Mrs. Ann Athabell Hunt, and two sons, Fred F. Jr. and the Rev. Robert V.
(Chicago Daily Times, January 25, 1958).

Sources

  1. Healing and Revival Press. F. F Bosworth Biography
  • New York, New York, Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
  • Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.




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