Prentice Mulford
Prentice Mulford ( born April 5, 1834 in Sag Harbor, Long Iceland, † May 27 1891 in Long Iceland ) was an American journalist, philosopher and author who is considered one of the most important representatives of the New Thought movement.
Mulford died at the age of 57 years, alone in a sailboat off Long Iceland drifting. He stated before, he wishes to go by boat to Sag Harbor.
Life
Prentice Mulford, whose parents were German -born owner of a hotel in Sag Harbor, was born in the same place on April 5, 1834. His grandmother fostered his love of nature. With her he learned the German language. His father died when Mulford is 14 years old. From now on he was regularly towards alcohol consumption. At 17, he left his home and hired as a sailor. In the following years he earned his living as a ship's cook and whalers. He came to the conclusion that the alcohol free will destroy ( in his opinion the " Highest in man " ), and decided to stop drinking.
In 1857 Mulford ended his career at sea, and went to California, where he spent the next 16 years. There he earned his living as a gold digger. But even this did not satisfy him employment; In 1863 he settled in Sonora, Tuolumne County, down. When he, encouraged by his partner to publish humorous stories in the Union democrate under the pseudonym " Dogberry " began, he attained among the miners there a certain notoriety. Over time, he was active as an educator, Petroleum dealers and sheriff. With the development of the first oil wells in 1858 in Pennsylvania and the associated conflicts Mulford John D. Rockefeller came to know that he was sorry for his physical setting and disapproved.
In 1866 Mulford of Joseph E. Lawrence, editor of the Golden Era, was summoned to San Francisco. He now wrote short stories for the Golden Era, a weekly newspaper with a literary focus, and made initial contacts with the then representatives of American literature such as Mark Twain, Artemus Ward and Adah Isaacs Menken.
After the sale of the sheet also Mulford left this and wrote from now on occasionally for the Dramatic Chronicle in Stockton, where he has been editor for a few months in 1868. For health reasons, he had to give up this position. He moved to San Francisco, there to be a freelance journalist. Here Mulford began his collaboration with the San Francisco Bulletin.
For financial reasons, he tried to make their mark in 1872 as a " propagator " for the merchants of the gold mining town. He was eventually sent to England, there to report from California's benefits and to warn about the bad influence of the monopolist Rockefeller.
On a trip to the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873, where he was able to communicate well thanks to his knowledge of German, he met Maria Berka know that followed him and went after San Francisco. However, Maria Berka later married Teddy Burton, a friend of Mulford, as they saw no future in their relationship with Mulford. He first worked as a freelance writer and as a Sunday preacher, but he could no longer pursue this activity after a confrontation with the Church.
In July 1876 Mulford worked as a correspondent for the San Francisco Bulletin in Philadelphia at the exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence. In 1877, he received a permanent position at the New York Graphic, where he established the daily column History of the Day, which contributed significantly to the success of the newspaper. For the San Francisco Bulletin in 1878 Mulford traveled to Paris, where he met the wholesalers J. Morgan, enlightening him about the personality Rockefellers. So Rockefeller looked at the view of Morgan to his success as God's grace. It succeeded Mulford, Morgan to convince them of his spiritual ideology and win him as adepts and patron for themselves.
He returned to New York and saw his texts censored because of economic and political criticism by the chief editor of the Graphic. After six years in permanent employment, it was his health so bad that he emigrated to the swamps of New Jersey to live there in a tree house. Furthermore, employed by the Graphic, he began here one of his most famous works: a series of essays under the collective term White Cross Library (library of white crosses). The collection was later published as Your forces and how to use them ( your forces and their use). Only with difficulty, he managed to finance the laying of the first 1000 books. Contrary to the usual procedure Mulford renounced it to make sales via publisher or boost by advertising. Only by word of mouth learned his works a distribution. The series was soon very successful, three years after the first edition Mulford was pleased with the results. "We are now read in all parts of the world "
The success urged him to return to New York. Beginning in 1891 traveled Mulford in the place of his childhood, to Sag Harbor. When he wanted to travel again by sailing boat to Sag Harbor in May of that year, he died on the crossing. He was found, wrapped in blankets, in his sailboat, drifting off the coast.
Appreciation
Sir Galahad: " Prentice Mulford is a saint " full of go, "one of the breed Johannes V. Jensen, a through Schiffer spiritual oceans, one who looks as bright as day in a spiritual cosmos, with such senses as Falk Jensen on Earth! He is the genius of impiety! His wisdom is rampant like a thorn bush - the burning bush of his wisdom! Never it is a knowledge at second hand. Wanted to engage him in a longer revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, he might politely, in any case strongly oppose and delay it before, his information to get directly from God. "