December 15. On this date in 1945, Emogene Hoagg died in Charleston, South Carolina. She was an early travel-teacher, translator of the Bahá'í writings into Italian, and the first pioneer to Italy.

Pictured above are early Western Bahá'í pilgrims. Standing left to right: Charles Mason Remey, Sigurd Russell, Edward Getsinger and Laura Clifford Barney; Seated left to right: Ethel Jenner Rosenberg, Madam Jackson, Shoghi Effendi, Helen Ellis Cole, Lua Getsinger, Emogene Hoagg


December 15. On this date in 1945, Emogene Hoagg died in Charleston, South Carolina. She was an early travel-teacher, translator of the Bahá'í writings into Italian, and the first pioneer to Italy.