Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.
Person
Found in 4 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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Church and social problems. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Evangelistic work. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 3
- Medical care -- China. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 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
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 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
- Church work with women -- China. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- Communism -- China. 1
- Communism. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 1
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions. 1
- Cooperative societies 1
- Cooperative societies -- China. 1
- Drug addictions 1
- Drug addictions -- China. 1
- Education 1
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Education -- United States. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 1 ∧ less
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