30 Facts About Clarence Richeson

Clarence Richeson left home at age 13, moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, and worked at several jobs.

Clarence Richeson began to prepare for college at Amherst Academy.

From 1892 to 1895 he worked for his cousin W J Richeson and continued his studies at the academy in Carrollton, Missouri.

Clarence Richeson joined the Trotter Baptist Church of Carroll County.

Clarence Richeson saw a Dr Cooper who gave him medication that caused an allergic skin reaction.

Clarence Richeson grew quite ill one time in 1896 and went to stay with a cousin in Potosi, Missouri.

Clarence Richeson gave Richeson some sedatives and declared him insane.

Clarence Richeson was ordained as a Baptist minister at the Third Baptist Church.

Clarence Richeson preached at a mission church at Kansas City.

Clarence Richeson was expelled from college for cheating in 1905.

Clarence Richeson entered Newton Theological Seminary, Newton, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1906, finally graduated in 1909 and took a postgraduate class in 1910.

Clarence Richeson raved against some men and imagined that someone was seeking to do him injury.

Clarence Richeson first met Violet and Rose Edmands in 1907.

Clarence Richeson referred to his wife and daughters as his three flowers.

Violet and Clarence Richeson began seeing each other weekly from December 1910, until their engagement was announced in March.

Clarence Richeson took a pastorate at the Baptist Church in Hyannis, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod in June, 1908.

Clarence Richeson appeared at times to be partly conscious and other times to be practically unconscious with no knowledge of what he was doing or saying.

Clarence Richeson talked irrationally, raved incoherently and physically manifested an abnormal degree of strength.

Clarence Richeson had assumed the position of pastor at a church in Hyannis, in June 1908 when he first met Avis Linnell.

Clarence Richeson took a room at the Boston YWCA The date for her marriage was set for October 1910.

Dr Lloyd Vernon Briggs, Director of the Massachusetts Mental Health Society, was asked by Governor Eugene N Foss on April 29,1912, to examine Richeson and determine his mental condition.

Importantly he recorded discussions with Clarence Richeson which are abstracted below.

At age three Clarence Richeson fell down the front steps, leaving a lifetime "knubble" on the back of his head.

Clarence Richeson had a headache and ringing in his head for the next five years.

One day in April 1911, Clarence Richeson had another very severe trauma to his head.

Clarence Richeson was a victim of hysteria with delusions, hallucinations, amnesic periods, and delirium.

Clarence Richeson had exhibited signs and had had attacks of this disease for years, had been recognized as mentally unsound by several physicians who advised specialists in mental diseases to attend him.

Clarence Richeson went on to explain he was to become a minister.

Clarence Richeson did not think he could associate with women without losing control of himself.

Clarence Richeson devoted the rest of her life to the settlement movement.