Book manuscript- (c) 2009 by William Sims Bainbridge

The Future of Religion.

767Louis Effingham de Forest, Ancestry of William Seaman Bainbridge (Oxford: Scrivener, 1950), p. 33.

768“The Lodge,” The Chautauquan Daily, July 11, 1912, p. 1; “Opening of the Lodge,” The Chautauquan Daily, July 13, 1912, p. 3.

769This is undoubtedly the incident referred to in William Seaman Bainbridge’s 1918 diary: “Oh! If I had only had decent treatment myself when infected I should have been saved much of sorrow!”

770Ida M. Brandt, letter quoted by A. H. McKinney, Triumphant Christianity (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1932), p. 140.

771Ida M. Brandt, letter quoted by A. H. McKinney, Triumphant Christianity (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1932), p. 140.

772William Seaman Bainbridge and Harold D. Meeker, A Compend of Operative Gynecology (New York, Grafton, 1906), p. 47.

773William Seaman Bainbridge, letters to June Wheeler Bainbridge, August 10, 1913, August 12, 1913; Winston Churchill, The Inside of the Cup (New York: Macmillan, 1913), note that the author was an American novelist who happened to have the same name as the British author and politician.

774William Seaman Bainbridge, travel diary, May, 1929.

775William Seaman Bainbridge, letters to June Wheeler Bainbridge, August 27, 1913 and August 28, 1913.

776William Seama Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, August 29, 1913.

777William Seaman Bainbridge, letters to June Wheeler Bainbridge, September 1, 1913 and September 5, 1913.

778William Seaman Bainbridge, letters to June Wheeler Bainbridge, September 8, 1913; September 9, 1913; September 10, 1913; September 12, 1913

779Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, September 12, 1913.

780Baby book for William Wheeler Bainbridge, January 11, 1914.

781Edna Kingsley Wallace, “The Antiseptic Babe,” publication information unknown.

782A. H. McKinney, Triumphant Christianity: The Life and Work of Lucy Seaman Bainbridge (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1932), pp. 46.

783William Folwell Bainbridge, letter to Hill Memorial Baptist Church, January 30, 1913.

7841915 Cambridge Directory (Boston: W. A. Greenough, 1915), pp. 51, 108; William Folwell Bainbridge is not listed in the previous volume, 1914 Cambridge Directory (Boston: W. A. Greenough, 1914); the building was constructed in 1905 and is currently the home of Harvard Extension University.

785Commonwealth of Massachusetts Standard Dearth Certificate for William Folwell Bainbridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 12, 1915.

786William Seaman Bainbridge, The Cancer Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1914).

787“The Problem of Cancer,” The Times of London, April 20, 1916; “A Medical Inquiry,” Los Angeles Sunday Times, November 29, 1914; Journal of the American Medical Association, December 26, 1914, p. 2313; “The Cancer Problem: Forthcoming Book by William Seaman Bainbridge,” Chautauqua Delegate, August 29, 1914; Charles H. Parkhurst, “Don’t Worry over Cancer, or it may Bring Malady,” Cleveland Sunday Leader, August 13, 1916; “Cancer Dread,” New York Evening Sun, April 17, 1915; “Dr. Parkhurst’s Article,” New York Evening Journal, May 3, 1915; “Combats Cancer Fallacy,” New York Evening Post, October 14, 1914; American Journal of Roentgenology, December 1914, p. 519; American Journal of Nursing, April 1915; American Journal of Surgery, February 1915; The American Practitioner, December 1914; Annals of Surgery, March 1915; Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, May 20, 1915; British Journal of Dermatology, March 1914; British Medical Journal, January 1916; British Journal of Surgery, April 1916; Buffalo Medical Journal, August 1915, p. 33; Bulletin of the State Board of Health of Rhode Island, July 1915; Canadian Medical Association Journal, March 1915, p. 232; Canadian Practitioner and Review, December 1914, p. 734; Charlotte Medical Journal, December 1914, p. 409; Chicago Medical Recorder, December 15, 1914, p. 688; Clinical Medicine, December 1915; Colorado Medicine, July 1915, p. 211; Homeopathic Recorder, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1915; Indian Medical Gazette, January 1915; Illinois Medical Journal, January 1915, p. 80; Indianapolis Medical Journal, October 1914, p. 470; International Journal of Surgery, November 1914, p. 392; Interstate Medical Journal, July 1915, p. 635; Journal of Advanced Therapeutics, February 1915; Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society, July 1915, p. 60; Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, July 15, 1915, p. 366; Journal-Lancet (Minneapolis), September 15, 1915, p. 517; Journal-Record of Medicine (Atlanta), July 1915; Kentucky Medical Journal, October 1, 1915; The Lancet, February 19, 1916; Lancet-Clinic (Cincinnati), February 20, 1915, p. 234; Maryland Medical Journal, September 1915, p. 228; Massachuestts Medical Journal, January 1915; The Medical Council, May 1915, p. 19; Medical Fortnightly, December 15, 1914, p. 441; Medical Healer, December 1914; Medical Journal (Buffalo), August 1915; Medical Press and Circular, March 3, 1915, p. 225; Medical Record, March 6, 1915, p. 411; Medical Review of Reviews, April 1915, p. 224; Medical Sentinal, December 1914, p. 1952; Medical Summary, January 1915, p. 350; Medical Times, March 1915, p. 106; Military Surgeon, July 1915, p. 83; New York Medical Journal, April 10, 1915, P. 762; New Mexico Medical Journal, July 1915, p. 126; Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, January 1915, p. 366; Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, November 1914; Ohio State Medical Journal, July 15, 1915, p. 424; Pacific Medical Journal, November 1914, p. 664; The Peace Forum (New York), April 1915; Pennsylvania Medical Journal, July 1915; Prescriber (Edinburgh), January 1915; Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (Supplement), April 1915, p. 29; Proctologist, June 1915, p. 118; Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, February 1915, p. 251; Saint Paul Medical Journal, July 1915, p. 538; Southern California Practitioner, July 1915, p. 205; Southern Clinic, July 1915, p. 222; Southern Medical Journal, July 1915, p. 646; Southwest Journal of Medicine and Surgery, August 1915, p. 256; Texas Medical News, November 1914; Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1914, p. 344; Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, June 1915; Vermont Medicine, May 1916; Western Medical Times, August 1915; West Virginia Medical Journal, January 1915, p. 245; Wisconsin Medical Recorder, September 1914; Walter F. Wilcox, review of The Cancer Problem by WIlliam Seaman Bainbridge, American Statistical Association Quarterly, March 1915; Eliza M. Mosher, “Review of Dr. WIlliam Seaman Bainbridge’s Book, ‘The Cancer Problem,’” Woman’s Medical Journal, June 1918.

788New York Times, “Irvin S. Cobb Ill,” May 13, 1915, p. 15; New York Times, “Cobb to Take Long Rest,” May 14, 1915, p. 10; Fred G. Neuman, Irvin S. Cobb: His Life and Achievements (New York: Beekman, 1974), p. 146; Anita Lawson, Irvin S. Cobb (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1984), p. 131.

789 Irvin S. Cobb, Irvin Cobb At His Best. Sun Dial Press, Garden City, New York, 1923.

790 Ibid., pp 23-24.

791Louis Livingston Seaman, From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese (New York: Appleton, 1905); The Real Triumph of Japan: The Conquest of the Silent Foe (New York: Appleton, 1906).

792William Seaman Bainbridge kept a travel diary, August through October 1915, but it was destroyed in the home fire that killed his eldest son in 1965; therefore this account has been reconstructed from the sources cited.

793Irwin S. Cobb, letter to Robert J. Thompson, The Hague, Netherlands, August 23, 1915.

794“European War Symposium,” The Chautauquan Daily, August 3, 1914, pp. 1-2.

795Entry of Sanford Griffith, Who’s Who in America 1944-1945 (Chicago: Marquis, 1944), p. 834; “Dr. Bainbridge Home Again,” The Chautauquan Weekly, November 18, 1915, p. 2.

796William Seaman Bainbridge, “Memo concerning Dr. Wm. Seaman Bainbridge and his work for the Netherlands,” unpublished document laying out the case for the Netherlands to award him a military decoration; travel diary, 1921.

797William Seaman Bainbridge, letters to June Wheeler Bainbridge, September 18, 1915, September 18, 1915, September 19, 1915.

798William Seaman Bainbridge, Report on Medical and Surgical Developments of the War, special issue of United States Naval Medical Bulletin, January, 1919, p. 44.

799William Seaman Bainbridge, travel dairy, April-June, 1925.

800William Seaman Bainbridge, notes from a speech to The Adventurers’ Club, Rogers Smith Restaurant, 40 East 41 Street, New York City, January 19, 1939.

801Generalleutnant Graaff [sic], XVIII. Armeekorps, Erlaubnisschein, Frankfurt, September 26, 1915.

802William Seaman Bainbridge, travel dairy, April-June, 1925.

803William Seaman Bainbridge, travel diaries, April-June, 1925, and May-August, 1927; Préfecture de Police, Gouvernement Militaire de Paris, Sauf-Conduit passes, dated October 6, 1915.

804Richard Hardaway Meade, An Introduction to the History of General Surgery (Philadalphia: W. B. Saunders, 1968), pp. 18-19.

805William Seaman Bainbridge, Report on Medical and Surgical Developments of the War, special issue of United States Naval Medical Bulletin, January, 1919, p. 14.

806“Worked with Miss Cavell,” New York Times, November 1, 1915, p. 5.

807William Seaman Bainbridge, typescript notes for a lecture given at Baptist Headquarters, Chautauqua, New York, July 30, 1916.

808Consuelo Andrew Seoane, Beyond the Ranges (New York: Robert Spellar, 1960).

809Louis Livingston Seaman, The Real Triumph of Japan: The Conquest of the Silent Foe (New York: Appleton, 1906), p. 263.

810Several of the espionage charts of Japanese coastal defenses have been published in a book compiled by Con’s third wife: Rhoda Low Seoane, Uttermost East and the Longest War (New York: Vantage, 1968).

811Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, letter to William Seaman Bainbridge, September 4, 1916, quoted in A. H. McKinney, Triumphant Christianity (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1932), p. 186.

812Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, Helping the Helpless in Lower New York (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1917), p. 10.

813Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, Helping the Helpless in Lower New York (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1917), p. 63.

814Telegram and letter from Real Admiral Usher to William Seaman Bainbridge, April 7, 1917.

815Photograph of the office of William Seaman Bainbridge, taken November 16, 1917.

816Albert Gleaves, A History of the Transport Service (New York: Goerge H. Doran, 1921), p. 193.

817“Lessons of Leadership,” Part LVII: Walter H. Wheeler of Pitnery-Bowes,” Nation’s Business, February 1970, pp. 72-79; New York Times, “Walter Wheeler Jr., 77, Dead; Ex-Chairman of Pitney-Bowes,” December 12, 1974.

818Ernest Edward Wheeler, autobiographical essay in “Records of the Class, 1925” Class of 1900, Harvard College.

819The following pages are greatly based on William Seaman Bainbridge, travel diary, November 1917-April 1918.

820The exact site is Lot 14088, Dogwood Plot, Woodlawn Cemetary, Webster Avenue and 233rd Street, New York.

821William Seaman Bainbridge, notes from a dinner speech for The Author’s Club, Lotos Club, New York City, May 21, 1942; I do not know exactly when this episode took place, but it seemed to fit where I put it.

822Edwin T. Pollock, “The First Trip.” Pp. 227-228 in The Hatchet, complied by Edwin T. Pollock and Paul F. Bloomhardt, Little and Ives, New York, 1919.

823William Seaman Bainbridge, notes from a speech, Wilton Rotary Club, Wilton, Connecticut, September 25, 1945.

824The general impression in family memory is that this episode occurred just after the war, but when Will introduced Cornelius W. Willemse in a meeting at the Army and Navy Club, he described it as happening “during the war;” William Seaman Bainbridge, notes from a speech given February 15, 1933 at the Tiger Post of the American Legion, New Yorck City.

825Cornelius W. Willemse, A Cop Remembers (New York, E. P. Dutton, 1933), pp. 322-323; cf. Cornelius W. Willemse, Behind the Green Lights (New York: Knopf, 1931).

826Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, “Three Picture of Abraham Lincoln,” The Outlook, February 13, 1918, p. 244.

827“A Book about Over Here,” promotional brochure for Helping the Helpless in Lower New York by Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, (New York, Fleming H. Revell, 1917).

828Clippings supplied by the Henry Romeike newspaper cutting bureau of New York and the Authors Clipping Bureau of Boston.

829Augustus H. Strong, letter to Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, March 10, 1918.

830John Spargo, “Bainbridge Colby,” in The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy, edited by Samuel Flagg Bemis (New York: Cooper Square, 1963), Volume V, pp. 179-218; “Gifford, Walter Sherman,” Who’s Who in America (Chicago: Marquis, 1928), p. 860.

831William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, March 8, 1918; by the end of May they were taking their mail in Stamford; William Seaman Bainbridge, notes from a speech, Rotary Club of Stamford, Stamford, Connecticut, September 13, 1938.

832William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, April 7, 1918.

833William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, April 12, 1918.

834The following pages are greatly based on William Seaman Bainbridge, travel dairy May-July 1918.

835William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, May 16, 1918.

836William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, May 19, 1918.

837William Sowdon Sims, The Victory at Sea (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1921); Sims argues that Germany would have won the war late in 1917 if America had not joined the Allies and the convoy system had not been quickly adopted to protect shipping to Britain and France, which was being rapidly sunk by German submarines. As the key United States naval representative in London, running the American part of the sea war from the English capital, Sims seems to have felt his contribution was decisive.

838This cross is one of the few artifacts Will brought back from the war that still exists; it is in my possession; according to the Inventory of his War Trophy Closet, August 24, 1946, the place was Grande Sec Bois.

839William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, June 23, 1918.

840Albert Gleaves, A History of the Transport Service (New York: Goerge H. Doran, 1921), p. 124-132.

841Cornelius W. Willemse, Behind the Green Lights (New York: Knopf, 1931), p. 320; the “famous surgeon” mentioned by Willemse was William Seaman Bainbridge.

842Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, “Sister Ohio: A Memory of the Civil War,” The Outlook, May 28, 1919, pp. 155-157.

843Consuelo A. Seone, letter to Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, August 14, 1919.

844“Died - SEOANNE,” New York Times, August 16, 1919, p. 7.

845Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge, The Future of Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).

846Fortunately that operation succeeded, or I would not have been born to write this book for you.

847William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to John Seaman Bainbridge, January 22, 1938, quoting from a letter to him from Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, circa August 1920; in a 1993 telephone interview, John Seaman Bainbridge contributed the watermellon seeds.

848Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, Jewels From the Orient (New York, Revell, 1920).

849Jules Voncken, “Address by the Secretary General of the International Committee,” in Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939), volume 2, pp. 51, 53 ; Anonymous, “Liège... and Military Medicine,” International Review of the Army, Navy and Air Force Medical Services 5 (1971), p. 404; William Seaman Bainbridge, presidential address, Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S., given at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, October 3, 1935, p. 9; July-September 1921 travel diary of William Seaman Bainbridge.

850William Seaman Bainbridge, Report on Medical and Surgical Developments of the War (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919).

851William Seaman Bainbridge, travel diary, July-September 1921; William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, July 10, 1921

852Eliza M. Mosher, letter to William Seaman Bainbridge , July 1921.

853William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, July 16, 1921.

854William Seaman Bainbridge, “Report on Congrès International de Médecine et de Pharmacie Militaires,” United States Naval Medical Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 6, December 1922.

855William Seaman Bainbridge, letter to June Wheeler Bainbridge, August 16, 1921.

856William Seaman Bainbridge, Report on Second International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, book reprinted from The Military Surgeon, December 1924, January 1925, and February 1925, p. 145.

857A. H. McKinney, Triumphant Christianity: The Life and Work of Lucy Seaman Bainbridge (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1932), p. 176; Waldo Selden Pratt, editor, Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (New York": Macmillan, 1935), p. 54.

858“BAINBRIDGE, Lucy Seaman (Mrs. William Folwell Bainbridge); born Cleveland, Ohio, January 18, 1842; daughter of John and Cleora A. (Stevens) Seaman; educated Cleveland high school, Cleveland Seminary, Ipswich (Massachusetts) Seminary; married Reverend William Folwell Bainbridge of Providence, Rhode Island, September 5, 1866. During Civil War served with Potomac Division at the front, helping wounded; active for many years in philanthropic and social work; organized woman’s department of Brooklyn City Mission Society; superintendent woman’s branch New York City Mission Society about 20 years, now honorary superintendent. Speaker: made two trips around the world to promote missionary effort. Republican. Baptist. Club: Sorosis. Author: Round the World Letters, 1882; Helping the Helpless, 1917; Jewels from the Orient, 1920; many magazine and newspaper articles. Home: 34 Gramercy Park, New York, N.Y.” Albert Nelson Marquis ed., Who’s Who in America 1922-1923 (Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1922), p. 265; this was the first edition in which Lucy appeared, although Will had been listed for a few years; Albert Nelson Marquis ed., Who’s Who in America 1926-1927 (Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1926), p. 204; Who Was Who in America 1897-1942 (Chicago: A. N. Marquis, n.d.), p. 45.

859“Dr. Bainbridge Honored,” New York Times, December 24, 1922, p. 9.

860Program booklet “1822—1923 One Hundreth Anniversary,” the Woman’s Branch of the New York City Mission Society, January 8, 1923.

861This quotation and much of the material in following paragraphs is taken from the travel diary of William Seaman Bainbridge, May-July, 1923.

862William Seaman Bainbridge, Report on Second International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, book reprinted from The Military Surgeon, December 1924, January 1925, and February 1925, p. 9.

863William Seaman Bainbridge, Report on Second International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, book reprinted from The Military Surgeon, December 1924, January 1925, and February 1925.

864“2º Congresso Internazionale di Medicina e Farmacia Militare,” program of the congress, Rome, May 28 — June 2, 1923.

865Lucy Seaman Bainbridge, letter to William Seaman Bainbridge, June 17, 1923.

866William Seaman Bainbridge, typescript of a speech, American Club, Paris, April 30, 1925.

867William Seaman Bainbridge, speach to the American Club of Paris, April 30, 1925.

868John Spargo, “Bainbridge Colby,” in