The founder of Port Auther Texas was railroad pioneer Arthur E. Stilwell. Usually I don’t post history lessons in my blog because of the fear that my blogging friends would fall asleep or they will think a pop quiz is coming. This gentleman was unique.
Stilwell claimed that he had been visited in his sleep throughout his career by spirits, whom he called "Brownies." These beings, he said, had not only given him the plans for his railroads, the city of Port Arthur, and other business ventures, but had dictated to him 20 novels, books, poems, songs, and screenplays and had inspired his dedication to the causes of pacifism and world disarmament. "There is no doubt in my mind," he wrote, "that these messages come from the spirit world, and that this circle of spirits that communicates with me by this rare method is comprised of engineers, poets, and authors." In 1922 he said that he had kept his Brownies secret during most of his life for fear that people would think him a "nut." Perhaps this is why he called these influences "hunches" in his autobiography serialized in The Saturday Evening Post during 1927 and 1928. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote a two-volume History of Spiritualism in addition to the Sherlock Holmes stories, declared that no man then living had enjoyed greater psychic experiences than Arthur Stilwell.
When Mr. Stillwell pass away from cancer, his wife put on her Sunday best and calmly walked out of a window and met her maker.
Stilwell claimed that he had been visited in his sleep throughout his career by spirits, whom he called "Brownies." These beings, he said, had not only given him the plans for his railroads, the city of Port Arthur, and other business ventures, but had dictated to him 20 novels, books, poems, songs, and screenplays and had inspired his dedication to the causes of pacifism and world disarmament. "There is no doubt in my mind," he wrote, "that these messages come from the spirit world, and that this circle of spirits that communicates with me by this rare method is comprised of engineers, poets, and authors." In 1922 he said that he had kept his Brownies secret during most of his life for fear that people would think him a "nut." Perhaps this is why he called these influences "hunches" in his autobiography serialized in The Saturday Evening Post during 1927 and 1928. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote a two-volume History of Spiritualism in addition to the Sherlock Holmes stories, declared that no man then living had enjoyed greater psychic experiences than Arthur Stilwell.
When Mr. Stillwell pass away from cancer, his wife put on her Sunday best and calmly walked out of a window and met her maker.
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