Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 093 Oral History Interview with Earl A. Winsor
Collection
Identifier: CN 093
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Earl Austin Winsor (1897-1983) in which he discusses his education at Wheaton College as a student (1919-1920) and teacher (1920-25, history, and 1939-1949, math and physics) and his missionary experiences in Africa under Africa Inland Mission, serving in what is now Zaire. Wheaton personalities, mission experiences, especially those relating to his education work, and analysis of his exposure to African government, churches, tribal customs, and health practices....
Dates:
Created: 1979-1980
Collection 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
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
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Helen Renich Papers.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Conversion. 4
- Evangelistic work. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Missionaries. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Tribes. 4
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Education 2
- Education -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Family. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Persecution -- China. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Sex role -- China. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Social change. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 1
- China -- Religion. 1
- Chinese -- Missions. 1
- Chinese -- Philippines. 1
- Chinese. 1
- Christian education -- China. 1
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian education -- Curricula. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education -- Philippines. 1
- Christian martyrs -- China. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Church discipline. 1
- Church growth -- China. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church work with children -- China. 1
- Church work with children. 1
- Church work with refugees -- China. 1
- Church work with refugees. 1
- Communism -- China. 1 ∧ less
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