Journalist, Author, Minister. Harold Bolce was born William Harold Bolce, the son of William Joseph Bolce, a Unitarian minister and publisher, and Katherine Duggan, a native of Ireland. He was married first to Irma Beth Kline on Dec 26, 1894 in San Francisco, California, and later to Henrietta Katherine Phyllis Taylor on May 12, 1912 in London, England. He was an American journalist, traveler, church minister, philosopher, writer, playwright, film maker and public speaker. A graduate of Oakland High School, he worked as a journalist to pay for his theological studies. He studied under evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (the Moody Church) in Boston, followed by three years under Professor Joseph French Johnson (noted American economist and publisher) at the University of Pennsylvania, and later finishing his education at California State University. He lived in Spokane, Washington from about 1890 to 1894, and in Monterey, California in 1894, later writing Spokane, The City of the Inland Empire and Monterey (California), Ciudad De Ayer y De Hoy (American Historic Towns, Historic Towns of the Western States, G.P. Putnam & Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1901). While in Spokane, he and his brother, Edmund, operated The Silver Outburst weekly newspaper. In 1896, accompanied by his wife, he traveled to the Transvaal as a representative of the San Francisco Examiner and the New York Journal (he was later on the Oakland Tribune staff). While in Johannesburg he wrote and published a four-act satiric skit, A Slump in Heroes: A Transvaal War Drama without Warriors. The play was first advertised in The Star on March 25, 1896. The earnings from this work allowed him to travel throughout Egypt, France, Italy Germany and England before returning to San Francisco. Upon his return, in December 1896, he founded The Cosmopolitan Church in San Francisco at the age of 28. The Spokane Daily Chronicle, Dec 31, 1986, reported that this "new church was founded on the principles of Christianity, but divested of theology". In addition, it read "will recognize the truth and beauty in the various religions and philosophies of mankind". The Cosmopolitan Church lasted only a short time. In addition to writing, he worked as a clerk for the U.S. Treasury Department from about 1900 to 1903, and later as a clerk for the War Department in Washington, D.C. from 1903 to 1905. During that period, he continued to have articles published in the Washington Post, and other newspapers and magazines across the country. In 1907 he published The New Internationalism (reprinted from the Cornell University Library's print collections by Nabu Press, 2010). He wrote on a wide variety of subject matters, many controversial, from the mundane to the divine (eg: The Trap-Lantern as an Insect Exterminator, 1903, Scientific American). In addition to these works, he was published (and written about) in countless newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and abroad, including: Scientific American, Cosmopolitan Monthly Magazine, Appleton Magazine, McClure's Magazine and Booklovers Magazine. His writings are still quoted from and discussed in seminaries, universities, women's rights groups and lecture halls, today. His articles on the subjects of modern liberalism, women in college, the future of Christianity, etc., got the attention of such notable personalities as Andrew Carnegie and Margaret Sanger. His works are also referenced in the Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830 to 1930, B. H. Roberts. While some readers found his social and religious commentary to be modern, cutting-edge thinking, many were offended and angered by it in the late-Victorian era. A proponent and follower of Eugenics, a controversial form of family planning (selective breeding), his daughter (named Eugenette) was touted as being the first Eugenics baby born in England in 1913. He and his family lived in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England for several years, later removing temporarily to the relative safety of New York City during World War I. His latter years were spent living and working in New York.