Straw, Darien A.
Person
Biographical Statement
Darien Austin Straw was born March 6, 1857 and was married to Isabel Eaton from Vermillionville, Illinois. He graduated from Wheaton College in 1881 and took coursework towards a master’s degree at the University of Chicago. He received an honorary Master of Science degree from Wheaton in 1884.
Beginning in 1882 he served as Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at Wheaton College and was also principal of the Preparatory School and served as the Secretary of the Faculty. Straw was granted an honorary doctorate (Litt.D.) from Wheaton in 1895.
While serving as a professor of rhetoric and logic Straw wrote his own textbook for the course. He also taught the school’s four-year Bible course. Straw retired from the faculty of Wheaton College in 1940 after serving the college for fifty-eight years.
He was a member of College Church of Christ and served as an elder. Straw died as a result of a fall at his home on April 24, 1950.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 104 Oral History Interview with Bruce F. Hunt
Collection
Identifier: CN 104
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews in which Bruce Finley Hunt (1903-1992) discusses his boyhood in Korea, college and seminary education at Wheaton College, Rutgers University and Princeton Seminary; a portion (1928-1942) of his missionary work in Korea and Manchuria; and his impressions of Korean culture. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1903-1976.Bruce Finley Hunt was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 22 and May 21, 1980 and October 16, 2002 in Abington, PA and...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates:
Created: 1982
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
Conversion Narratives Collection
Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-228
Scope and Contents
The contents of the Conversion Narratives Collection may be searched in the library catalog using keyword: SC/228
Dates:
Other: -
Found in:
Special Collections
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Conversion Narratives Collection
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 3
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Buddhists. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Communism. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Education 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Medical care 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Racism. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Superstition. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Zambia 2
- Zambia -- History 2
- Zambia -- History -- 1953-1964. 2
- Zambia -- History -- 1964- 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government -- 1964-1991 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government -- To 1964. 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government. 2
- Baptism. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Buddhists -- Korea. 1
- Buddhists -- Taiwan. 1
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 1
- Catholic Church -- United States. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Korea. 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. 1
- Christian education -- Korea. 1
- Christian education -- Philosophy. 1
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christian education of children -- United States. 1
- Christian education of children. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Church and social problems -- United States. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- India. 1
- Church and state -- Korea. 1
- Church growth -- Korea. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 1
- Church work with military personnel. 1
- Church work with the working class 1 ∧ less
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