Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans
Collection
Identifier: CN 279
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Morrell Evans (1899-1976) in which she discusses her childhood; education at Wheaton College; work with J. Elwin Wright; her Christian education activities; the development of the New England Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the World Evangelical Fellowship; and her work as a missionary in Taiwan. The time period covered by the interviews is 1899-1976.Elizabeth Evans was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 8,...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1985
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
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.
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- Christianity and culture. 5
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Missions -- China. 5
- Buddhists. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Family. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Medical care 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Bible. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 3
- Christian education -- China. 3
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Church work with women. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Communism. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Taiwan. 3
- Missions to Buddhists. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Refugees 3
- Refugees -- China. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- India. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Persecution -- China. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Sex role -- China. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Ancestor worship. 1
- Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
- Animism. 1
- Baptism. 1
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Buddhists -- Taiwan. 1
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church -- United States. 1
- Catholic Church. -- China. 1
- Chaplains, Military 1
- Chaplains, Military -- United States. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- Children. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1 ∧ less
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