DR. JAMES HENRY COUSINS

BORN : 22nd July 1873, Belfast, Ireland

DIED : 20th February 1956 (82), Madanapalle, A.P., India

MARRIED : Margaret (Gretta) Elizabeth Gillespie  m. 1903   b. 1878  d. 1954

Converted to Hinduism in 1937.

A member of the Theosophical Society.

Travelled to India in 1915, voyage fees paid by Annie Besant.

Meher Baba's 1st Visit to the West

5th December 1931 - Stoke's home, Greenwich Village, New York 

The group arrived at the Stokes residence in Greenwich Village around noon. Although Baba had previously indicated that he did not wish to see anyone, he changed his mind and met about 25 people, several for the first time in New York. Among them were Elliot and Elizabeth Holt.  After their interview, Chanji found Elliot gazing out the window up at the sky, exclaiming, "My God, that I should have met such a man!"

Elizabeth Patterson and Nadine Tolstoy saw Baba that day at the Stokeses', as did the widow of the banker Adolph Ladenburg, Baroness von Miltitz, Dr. James H. Cousins and his wife Margaret, Dorothy Norris, Countess Castelli, the artist A. Garfield Learned and Charles and Virginia Crocker.

The group arrived at the Stokes residence in Greenwich Village around noon. Although Baba had previously indicated that he did not wish to see anyone, he changed his mind and met about 25 people, several for the first time in New York. Among them were Elliot and Elizabeth Holt.  After their interview, Chanji found Elliot gazing out the window up at the sky, exclaiming, "My God, that I should have met such a man!"

Elizabeth Patterson and Nadine Tolstoy saw Baba that day at the Stokeses', as did the widow of the banker Adolph Ladenburg, Baroness von Miltitz, Dr. James H. Cousins and his wife Margaret, Dorothy Norris, Countess Castelli, the artist A. Garfield Learned and Charles and Virginia Crocker.

At midnight, Meher Baba departed on the SS Bremen for France and then onto India.