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.
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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
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Conversion Narratives Collection
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- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Communism. 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
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Medical care 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
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- 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.) -- Athletics. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 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
- Buddhists -- Taiwan. 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 1
- Catholic Church -- United States. 1
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- Chaplains, Military -- United States. 1
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- Christian education -- Philosophy. 1
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- Church and state -- India. 1
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 1
- Church work with military personnel. 1
- Church work with the working class 1
- Church work with the working class -- United States. 1
- Church work with women -- United States. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- Congregationalists 1
- Congregationalists -- United States. 1
- Conversion. 1
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- Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 1
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