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Newer research by Jill Watts, based on census data, finds evidence for a George Baker Jr. of appropriate age born in an African-American enclave of Rockville, Maryland, called Monkey Run. If this theory is correct, his mother was a former slave named Nancy Baker, who died in May 1897.
- September 10, 1965 (aged 89), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- 1st: Penninah Divine, 2nd: Edna Rose Ritchings
Father Divine. American religious leader. Also known as: Father Major Jealous Devine, George Baker. Written by. J. Gordon Melton. Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Institute for Studies in Religion, Baylor University; Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion, Woodway, Texas.
Thus, George Baker Jr known to be "the Messenger". In 1912, Father Divine disagreed that Father Jehovia was God and anyone could be God. As result, Father Divine parted ways and declared himself a God. Father Divine traveled down South to Georgia to preach and got into conflicts with local ministers and was sentenced to 60 days on a ...
- 19 as of 2015
- 1920s, New York City
Divine, Father (George Baker) Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina; Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History; Online publication: 05 March 2016; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.088
25 feb 2008 · Courtesy Temple University Special Collections (SCRC 170) Father Divine, founder of the International Peace Missions Movement, was a religious leader, businessman, and civil rights activist. He was born George Baker in Rockville, Maryland sometime in 1876 to George and Nancy Baker.
There are a number of competing versions of the history of his early life—sources conflict as to his birthdate, variously noted as between 1874 and 1882—but the most plausible account is that Divine was born George Baker to ex-slave parents in a Maryland African-American ghetto in about 1880.
Father Divine was the guiding theological, liturgical, scriptural, and administrative force behind the indigenous American religion he founded. While his adherents never associated him with a legal birth name, he has been identified by researchers as George Baker, a native of Rockville, Maryland.
