Swami Vivekananda                           

This is an interesting obituary of Vivekananda, inasmuch as it refers to the "fame" he had as a result of being "lionized" by "society." It contradicts some of the opinions of the so-called "corrective" biographers of Vivekananda who like to write that Vivekananda was virtually unknown to the American people. If nothing else, this and other documents he was known by a considerable number of people (judging him from a distance) as a "fad". Of course, those who knew him personally seem to have an entirely different testimony of his impact on their lives.

The Fort Wayne- News
July 25, 1902

NOTED HINDOO MONK DEAD.
Swami Vivekananda, Who Preached
Himself Into Fame.
NEW YORK, July 25.—Private advices
from Calcutta announce the
death in a monastery near there of
Swami Vivekananda, the Hindoo monk
and philosopher who preached himself
into New York's exclusive society.
Vivekananda's original mission
here was as a delegate to the Parliament
of Religions at the world's
fair. He remained long after the fair
was over in response to invitations
by prominent members of the "higher
thought" movement in this country,
who were greatly impressed by his
teachings. Then society took him up
as a "fad" and lionized him.