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Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.

 Person

Found in 5 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 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 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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Children of missionaries. 4
Evangelistic work. 4
Family. 4
Indigenous church administration 4
Indigenous church administration -- China. 4
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Missionaries -- Training of. 4
Missions -- China. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
Bible. 3
Buddhists -- China. 3
Buddhists. 3
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
China -- History. 3
Christian education -- China. 3
Christian education. 3
Communism -- China. 3
Communism. 3
Medical care 3
Medical care -- China. 3
Refugees 3
Refugees -- China. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
Animism. 2
Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
Catholic Church. 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
Crime and criminals 2
Crime and criminals -- China. 2
Culture shock. 2
Evangelistic work -- China. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
Leprosy. 2
Missionaries' spouses. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
Missions -- Taiwan. 2
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
Missions to Buddhists. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Theology 2
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
Ancestor worship. 1
Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
Animism -- Kenya. 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 -- Relations 1
Catholic Church. -- China. 1
Children of missionaries -- Education. 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 -- Philippines. 1
Christian life. 1
Christian martyrs -- China. 1
Christian martyrs. 1
Church and social problems -- China. 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
College students -- Religious life. 1
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
College students. 1
Conversion. 1
Cooperative societies 1
Cooperative societies -- China. 1
Drug addictions 1
Drug addictions -- China. 1
Drug traffic 1
Drug traffic -- China. 1
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