Randolph, Paschal Beverly, 1825-1875 (Personal Name)

Rosicrucian's story, 1863.

MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Randolph, Paschal Beverly, 1825-1874; usage: Paschal Beverly Randolph; Paschal B. Randolph; P.B. Randolph; Griffin Lee; Count de St. Leon; Author of Pre-Adamite man; the Rosicrucian; note: not to be confused with Edward Du Bois, 1774-1850, who used pseudonym, Count Reginald de St. Leon)

Pre-Adamite man, 1873: t.p. (Dr. Paschal Beverley Randolph)

African American National Biography, accessed March 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Randolph, Paschal Beverly; educator, magician, spiritualist, occultist, Rosicrucian, novelist; born 10 August 1825 in New York, New York, United States; traveled the country as a trance medium and delivered more than three thousand extraordinarily powerful and eloquent speeches (1848); traveled to Europe (1857-1858), Egypt, Persia and Constantinople (1861-1862); returned to the United States as the missionary of drug use for mystical purposes; taught in a Freedmen's Bureau School in New Orleans; practiced as a physician specializing in sexual ailments in Boston (1866); called himself a “Rosicrucian” and worked to establish his Rosicrucian Fraternity on a permanent basis in San Francisco and Boston; died 29 July 1875 in Toledo, Ohio, United States)