Ella Goodall Cooper
March 22, 2015
March 14, 2015
Emogene Hoagg – “exemplary pioneer (of the) Faith”; typed the voluminous manuscript of 'The Dawn-Breakers' at Shoghi Effedi’s request; first confirmed believer in California
Henrietta Emogene Martin Hoagg - known to the Bahá'ís as
Emogene - learned of the Bahá'í Faith in California in 1898 from Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst, and after studying with Lua Getsinger became "the first confirmed
believer in California."
In 1899, in Milan, she received her first Tablet from
'Abdu'l-Bahá, in acknowledgment of her acceptance of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh.
In 1900, she visited 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Haifa, and afterwards, at His suggestion,
studied for a month with the outstanding Bahá'í scholar Mirza Abdu'l-Fadl in
Port Sá'íd.