Arthur Bentley Worthington
Arthur Bentley Worthington (born Samuel Oakley Crawford, 1 March 1847 – 13 December 1917) was an American fraudster, alternative religious leader and bigamist. Active in the United States, New Zealand and Australia just before the turn of the 20th century, he variously claimed to be a Methodist minister, a lawyer, a banker, a faith healer, a spiritualist, a real estate agent, a mining consultant, a temperance preacher, or a military veteran, and used at least eight known aliases. In 1890 he briefly founded a new religious movement in New Zealand.
Arthur Bentley Worthington | |
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A family photo of Worthington with one of his wives Evelyn Maud Jordan and their children, taken in 1910. | |
| Born | Samuel Oakley Crawford 1 March 1847 Saugerties, New York |
| Died | 13 December 1917 (aged 70) New York |
| Other names | Eugene Samuel Bouvier Walton, Major Eugene Bouvier, Eugene Bonner, E. R. Bannerton, Mons. Bennateau, Major Horace Oakley Wood, Arthur Wood, W. D. Wood, Arlington Buckingham Wadsworth, Dr A. B. Worthington |
| Occupation | Alternative religious leader |
| Known for | Fraud |
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