#christopher stamp

A November 1912 announcement in The Daily Inter Lake about revival services in Kalispell, Montana. Christopher, Blanche, and their daughter Ada are noted as preaching. Christopher Stamp became a General Conference evangelist around 1904, and the Stamps’ speaking engagements garnered media attention wherever they went. While Christopher was the official General Conference evangelist, Blanche…

Blanche Stamp Free Methodist Traveling Revivalist

Blanche Stamp was a licensed Free Methodist evangelist in the Pittsburg Conference from 1894 through at least 1912. Last year as I was looking for Progress Era women evangelist reports in The Free Methodist and I kept coming across accounts from a Blanche Stamp. Like so many women from this time period, I had no idea who she was so I began digging. Emma Blanche Stamp was born in Pennsylvania in…