Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.
Person
Found in 7 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 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 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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- Indigenous church administration 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Rural missions. 6
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missions -- China. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Children of missionaries. 4
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Family. 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Animism. 3
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Bible. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
- Christian education -- China. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Communism. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Leprosy. 3
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 3
- Missions to Buddhists. 3
- Refugees 3
- Refugees -- China. 3
- 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 life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Kenya 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Social change. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Ancestor worship. 1
- Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church. -- China. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912. 1
- China -- Religion. 1
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