18 Facts About Gavin Arthur

Gavin Arthur was the grandson of Chester A Arthur, the twenty-first president of the United States.

Gavin Arthur received his early education from Columbia College and later joined the Philolexian Society.

Gavin Arthur left his college and participated in the Irish Republican Movement.

Gavin Arthur founded Dune Forum, a short-lived cultural magazine aimed to spread alternating religious and political ideologies.

Gavin Arthur died in 1972; he was the last living descendant of the Gavin Arthur family.

Chester Alan Gavin Arthur III was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on March 21,1901, to Chester Alan Gavin Arthur II and his wife, Myra Fithian Andrews.

Gavin Arthur was the grandson of Chester A Arthur, twenty-first president of the United States.

Gavin Arthur II was an indirect stakeholder in the Trinchera Estate, a 250,000 acres ranch which was one of the main source of income for his family.

Gavin Arthur was an admirer of the works of the British poet and activist Edward Carpenter.

Gavin Arthur founded an art and literature commune and published a short-lived magazine, Dune Forum, with an intention to "express the creative thought of America looking not toward Europe but toward the West" and spread alternating religious and political ideologies.

Gavin Arthur inherited various receipts, bills, checkbooks, presidential mementos, newspaper clippings from his grandfather's presidency, and correspondence letters from politicians such as Ulysses S Grant, James A Garfield, Millard Fillmore, James G Blaine, among others.

The twelve types corresponded to the 12-hours dial clock and Arthur illustrated each with a historical archetype, like Don Juan, Sappho, and Lady C In 1966, he published an enlarged edition of the same title.

Gavin Arthur was friend to many people of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts.

Gavin Arthur was active in the early gay rights movement, and was a leader of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture.

Gavin Arthur used his astrology to decide the date for the first "Human Be-In" event on January 14,1967.

Gavin Arthur believed he was in spiritual connections with local Chumash Indians.

Gavin Arthur died on April 28,1972, at the Fort Miley Veterans Hospital in San Francisco.

Gavin Arthur's papers, including many family papers, were given to the Library of Congress soon after his death.