Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.
Person
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 105 Oral History Interview with Paul D. Votaw
Collection
Identifier: CN 105
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul Dean Votaw (1917-2007) in which he describes his childhood; education at Wheaton College, Dallas Seminary, and Princeton Seminary; and missionary activities in Syria and Lebanon. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1917-1954.Reverend Paul Votaw was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 4, 1980, at the Graham Center offices in Wheaton. The first ten minutes of the interview are barely decipherable due to technical difficulties. The...
Dates:
Created: 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 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 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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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- Evangelistic work. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missions -- China. 6
- Tribes. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 5
- China -- History. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 5
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 4
- Communism -- China. 4
- Communism. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Evangelistic work -- China. 4
- Family. 4
- Medical care 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Presbyterians. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Bible. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christian education -- China. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Leprosy. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 3
- Missions to Buddhists. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Refugees 3
- Refugees -- China. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Rural missions -- China. 3
- Theology 3
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Education 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Persecution -- China. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Ancestor worship. 1
- Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Arab-Israeli conflict. 1
- Arabs. 1
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
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