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 2 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 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
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- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists -- Korea. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church. -- Korea. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- History. 1
- China -- Religion. 1
- Chinese -- Missions. 1
- Chinese -- Philippines. 1
- Chinese. 1
- Christian education -- China. 1
- Christian education -- Korea. 1
- Christian education -- Philippines. 1
- Christian martyrs -- China. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Korea. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Church development, New. 1
- Church growth -- China. 1
- Church growth -- Korea. 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
- Communism -- China. 1
- Communism. 1
- Confucianism 1
- Confucianism -- Korea. 1
- Conversion. 1
- Culture shock. 1
- Evangelistic work -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Korea. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Manchuria (China) 1
- Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 1
- Family. 1
- India -- Description and travel. 1
- Indigenous church administration 1
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Philippines. 1
- Korea 1
- Korea -- Description and travel. 1
- Korea -- Foreign Relations 1
- Korea -- Foreign Relations -- Japan 1
- Korea -- Foreign Relations -- Japan -- 1910-1945. 1
- Korea -- History 1
- Korea -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Korea -- History -- Independence movement, 1919. 1
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- Manchuria -- Description and travel. 1
- Manchuria -- History 1
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- Missions -- Philippines. 1
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
- Missions, Medical. 1
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 1
- Moral re-armament. 1
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