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Dow, Elsie Storrs.

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Biographical Statement

Elsie Storrs Dow was born in Sycamore, Illinois in 1859 to Roswell and Theresa E. Dow. Mr. Dow was a trustee of Wheaton College from 1878 to 1901 and was a well-known educator.

Dow came to study at Wheaton College in 1877 in the Classical program, usually taken by men, and graduated in 1881. After completing her studies at Wheaton she taught at Reed’s Ferry Academy in Manchester, New Hampshire. After four years of teaching she returned to Sycamore and taught for a year. During this time Dow received a Master of Arts degree from Wheaton. Afterward her year of teaching she moved again and became principal of Wasioja Academy in Minnesota until 1889.

In was in 1889 that she returned to her Alma Mater and assumed the Samuel Plumb Professorship of English Literature. She also served as Dean of Women from 1893 to 1901 and also taught courses in classics, history, and mathematics in additional to her English courses. She also served as Registrar for a time. Dow occupied the chair of the English Department for forty-six years and taught three generations of students as her teaching career spanned over five decades. Elsie Dow was known by her colleagues as an authority on Shakespeare and Browning.

At some time she took some graduate courses at Harvard University. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Lawrence College in 1922.

Dow died at 85 years of age on October 29, 1944 and was buried at Elmwood cemetery in Sycamore.

Citation:
Author: Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections staff

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 319 Oral History Interview with Jesse W. Hoover

 Collection
Identifier: CN 319
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Jesse Wilbert Hoover (1908-2002) in which he discuesses his pietistic background and beliefs, his education at Messiah and Wheaton Colleges, his involvement in Mennonite relief work in Europe and the Far East and his evangelistic work in Canada. The time period covered by the interviews is 1908-1947.

Jesse W. Hoover was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on October 7, 1985 in Greenfield, Indiana.

Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis

 Collection
Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates: Created: 1928-1987

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Armenians. 1
Bible colleges 1
Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
Catholic Church. 1
Catholic Church. -- France. 1
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China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
China -- History. 1
Christian education -- Greece. 1
Christian education -- United States. 1
Christian education. 1
Church and social problems. 1
Church and state -- Greece. 1
Church and state. 1
Church work with refugees -- China. 1
Church work with refugees -- France. 1
Church work with refugees -- Greece. 1
College students -- Religious life. 1
College students. 1
Conversion. 1
Education 1
Education -- Ethiopia. 1
Education -- Greece. 1
Education -- United States. 1
Education, Higher 1
Education, Higher -- United States. 1
English language 1
English language -- Foreign speakers. 1
Ethiopia 1
Ethiopia -- Description and travel. 1
Ethiopia -- History 1
Ethiopia -- History -- 1889-1974. 1
Ethiopia -- Religion. 1
Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 1
Evangelicalism -- Greece. 1
Evangelicalism. 1
Evangelistic work -- China. 1
Evangelistic work -- Greece. 1
Evangelistic work -- Northwestern Territory. 1
Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
Greece 1
Greece -- History 1
Greece -- History -- 1917-1944. 1
Greece -- Social life and customs. 1
Hell. 1
International relief -- China. 1
International relief -- Christianity. 1
International relief -- France. 1
International relief -- Greece. 1
Interpersonal conflict. 1
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936. 1
Language in missionary work. 1
Liberalism (Religion) 1
Mass media in missionary work. 1
Mennonite Central Committee -- Missions. 1
Mennonites 1
Mennonites -- Missions. 1
Missionaries -- Training of. 1
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 1
Missionaries. 1
Missions -- Educational work. 1
Missions -- Ethiopia. 1
Missions -- Greece. 1
Missions. 1
Orphans 1
Orphans -- Greece. 1
Orthodox Eastern Church -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
Pacifism 1
Pacifism -- Christianity. 1
Persecution -- Ethiopia. 1
Persecution -- Greece. 1
Persecution -- Turkey. 1
Persecution. 1
Pietism 1
Pietism -- United States. 1
Presbyterians. 1
Radio in missionary work. 1
Refugees -- China. 1
Refugees -- France. 1
Refugees -- Greece. 1
Refugees -- Turkey. 1
Spiritual healing. 1
Sunday schools. 1
Turkey 1
Turkey -- History 1
Turkey -- History -- 1918-1960 1
Voluntarism -- Religious aspects -- United States. 1
Voluntarism -- Religious aspects. 1
Voluntarism. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 1
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