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Show CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF DOWIE'S SPECTACULAR CAREER AS "PROPHET .. . : 1888 Lands at San Francisco with $100 in his pocket. 1890 Arrives in Chicago and begins preaching in the streets. 1892 Establishes a divine healing mission at Stony Island avenue and Sixty-third street. 1894 Opens headquarters and establishes a bank and newspaper at Michigan avenue and Twelfth street. 1899 Inaugurates metropolitan crusade, preaching nightly in different parts of the ,city. Mobbed by hoodlums. hood-lums. 1900 Purchases site of Zion City. Conducts crusade in England. . 1901 Starts factories of Zion City. Declares himself to be Elijah III., or Elijah the Restorer. 1902 Negotiates for Mexican plantation and Texas land for colonization purposes. Refused credit by Chicago merchants. -Ordered to refund $50,000 to Frederick Sut-- Sut-- ton of New Zealand, who had invested in Zion. 1903 Receives large contributions and tithes from his people in the famous collection barrel. Leads the Zion restoration host of 3000 workers in eight special trains on a religious visitation to New York: Creditors press claims and Zion placed in hands of a Federal receiver for several weeks. 1904 Departs on mission around the world, by way of San Francisco and Australia. Returns six months later and takes title of first apostle of his church . 1905 Gets option on 700,000 acres of Mexican land and makes trip to complete colonization plans. Stricken with paralysis on his return to Zion City. After a second stroke leaves for West Indies. 1906 Makes Wilbur Glen Voliva deputy general overseer of the Christian Catholic church and the Zion industries. in-dustries. Repudiated by Voliva and his people. 1907 March 9, dies in Zion City. |