1898: The first North American Baha’is to visit ‘Abdu’l-Baha in the Holy Land

Lua and Edward Getsinger arrived in Akka on 10 December 1898 and became the first North American Baha’is to visit ‘Abdu’l-Baha. 

(Adapted from ‘The Baha’i Faith in America’, vol. 1, by Robert Stockman)