Amanda Cameron Flower

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Amanda Cameron Flower (often listed as Flowers) was a Canadian-born American spiritualist pastor and spirit medium. She was born on October 15, 1863, in Owen Sound, Ontario, and moved to the United States at age 27. She settled in Michigan and bought a church in Grand Rapids, reopening it as the First Church of Truth, where she served as pastor from 1904 to 1939.

Flower helped establish other Spiritualist churches across the Midwest, all affiliated with the National Spiritualist Association of Churches. Dissatisfied with that group’s rules for ministers, she founded the Independent Spiritualist Association in 1924, incorporating some Theosophical ideas such as reincarnation. She edited the association’s newsletter until 1935 and was elected president-for-life in 1931. Her name is sometimes written as Flower and sometimes as Flowers.

Amanda Cameron Flower died on November 20, 1940.