July 20. On this date in 1962, Harlan Foster Ober died. An American Bahá'í, he traveled to India to teach the Bahá'í Faith and later served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada. At the end o f his life he pioneered to South Africa, where he died in Pretoria.

Photograph taken in Bombay, India in 1907. From left to right: Mirza Mahmud Zarqani, Hooper Harris, Harlan Ober, Hand of the Cause of God Ibn-i-Abhar.

July 20. On this date in 1962, Harlan Foster Ober died. An American Bahá'í, he traveled to India to teach the Bahá'í Faith and later served on the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada. At the end of his life he pioneered to South Africa, where he died in Pretoria.