In Chicago, members of the Swedenborg Library included architect and city planner Daniel H. Burnham, initiator of the first Parliament of World's Religions Charles Bonney, lyricist George F. Root, and Chicago History Museum founding board member Jonathan Scammon whose son Jonathan founded a law firm with Robert Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son.
To view Dr. Kristen Schafffer's lecture, The Plan of Chicago as a Map of Heaven: Daniel Burnham’s Swedenborgianism which she delivered at the ACS 5 Symposium: Urbanism, Spirituality and Well-Being – Exploring the Past and Present / Envisioning the Future in June 2013, click on this link to Youtube where it is found: The Plan of Chicago As a Map of Heaven . Or, if you're using an Apple device, and Safari won't open the link on Youtube, go to Youtube.com directly, and search for "The Plan of Chicago As a Map of Heaven" by Schaffer. Dr. Schaffer is Associate Professor of Architecture at North Carolina State University.
Other notable Americans who read and wrote about Swedenborg include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James Sr. and his sons William and Henry, John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), Helen Keller, and artist George Innes.
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