Ammon Hennacy

American Christian pacifist, anarchist, and social activist (1893–1970) Ammon HennacyHennacy in 1954. Photographer Rik Anderson.BornJuly 24, 1893Negley, Ohio, USDiedJanuary 14, 1970(1970-01-14) (aged 76)Salt Lake City, Utah, USResting placeWaldheim Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USEducationHiram College (no degree)University of Wisconsin–Madison (no degree)Ohio State University (no degree)Rand School of Social ScienceSpouses Selma Melms ​ ​(m. 1919; div. 1964)​ Joan Thomas ​(m. 1965)​ Ammon Ashford Hennacy (July 24, 1893 – January 14, 1970) was an American Christian pacifist, anarchist, Wobbly, social activist, and member of the Catholic Worker Movement. He established the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City, Utah, and practiced tax resistance. Biography Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio, to Quaker parents, Benjamin Franklin Hennacy and Eliza Eunice Fitz Randolph, and grew up as a Baptist. He studied at three different institutions, (a year at each one): Hiram College in Ohio in 1913, University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1914, and Ohio State University in 1915. During this time, Hennacy was a card-carrying member of the Socialist Party of America and in his