Stanley Slotkin (1905–1997) was a prominent Los Angeles businessman specializing in medical and party rentals through his company Abbey Rents.
Abbey Rents had 90 rental outlets that lent a wide variety of goods, including party supplies and medical equipment.
To allow his belief to proceed, Slotkin opened a clinic that provided plastic surgery—free of charge—to people who could not otherwise afford the corrective surgeries necessary to repair physical deformities like cleft palates and harelips.
In 1963, Slotkin bought the Charles Darwin Family Library in London and donated all the papers and artefacts from the collection to the University of Southern California.
In the papers from the Charles Darwin Family Library in London, Slotkin found a story about the Tomb of Joseph in Nazareth that sparked his curiosity.