Memorial Meeting Honoring D. M. Bennett

Shortly after the death of D. M. Bennett (publisher of the influential freethought paper The Truth Seeker) on December 6, 1882, a memorial meeting in honor of Bennett was held at Elias Hull Gault's home in Rochester. Local minister-turned-freethought-lecturer Charles B. Reynolds gave a very well-received memorial address that launched him into a new career as a freethought lecturer. Reynolds credited the Gaults as having played key roles in his earlier conversion from Seventh Day Adventism to freethought.