Born: February 20, 1868, Springfield Vermont.
Died: October 23, 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..
Buried: Quaker Burial Grounds, Hartford Road, Baltimore Maryland.
Forbush graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1888, and became Principal of the Amherst, New Hampshire, the next year. He served as pastor of the Riverside Congregational Church, Riverside, Rhode Island (1893-1894), entered Union Theological Seminary, in 1889, graduating in 1892. He received an A.M. in 1890 and PhD in 1892 from the University of New York, andwas acting pastor at the Rockaway Church in Brooklyn while enrolled in 1890. He served as pastor at Riverside Church in East Providence, Rhode Island (1892); Tabernacle Church, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (1894-6); Warren, Massachusetts (1896-1908); Winthrop Church, Boston, Massachusetts(1905-6); and Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan (to 1913). In 1913, he became President of the American Institute of Child Life in Philadelphia, resigning in 1914 to pursue writing. He established his home in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he lived the rest of his life and for a time headed the Woolman House, a school of social and religious education under the Quaker management of Swarthmore. In 1895, he received honorary an Doctor of Laws from Hanover College, Indiana. He founded the Knights of King Arthur in 1893, which attracted thousands of young boys. In 1918, he became General Editor of the publications of the University Society of New York, serving until 1924, when he became consulting editor of the John C. Winston Publishing Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works include:
