Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1997
Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 298
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1985
Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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- Subject
- Christian life. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Indigenous church administration 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Medical care 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Animism. 1
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History. 1
- College students -- Religious life. 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Cooperative societies 1
- Cooperative societies -- China. 1
- Drug addictions 1
- Drug addictions -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 1
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
- Family. 1
- Great Britain 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 1
- Kenya 1
- Kenya -- Description and travel. 1
- Kenya -- Religion. 1
- Maasai (African people) 1
- Maasai (African people) -- Religion. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of. 1
- Missionaries -- Australia. 1
- Missionaries -- Sweden. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missions -- Comoros. 1
- Missions -- Kenya. 1
- Missions -- Tanzania. 1
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
- Missions to Buddhists. 1
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 1
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 1
- Revivals. 1
- Smallpox 1
- Smallpox -- China. 1
- Tribes -- Kenya. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 1
- World War, 1939-1945. 1 ∧ less
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