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 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 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
- Christian education. 4
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Bible. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christian education -- China. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Communism. 3
- Evangelistic work. 3
- Family. 3
- Medical care -- China. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Refugees 3
- Refugees -- China. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Social change. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Ancestor worship. 1
- Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church. -- China. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912. 1
- China -- Religion. 1
- China. 1
- Chinese -- Missions. 1
- Chinese -- Philippines. 1
- Chinese. 1
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian education -- Curricula. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education -- Philippines. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christian martyrs -- China. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Church and social problems -- China. 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
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel. 1 ∧ less
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