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Straw, Darien A.

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1857 - 1950

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 3 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 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie

 Collection
Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 488 Papers of John E. Phillips

 Collection
Identifier: CN 488
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, letters, newspaper clipping, a booklet and other materials, relating mainly to John E. Phillips' work as a missionary with the Sudan Interior Mission among the Kambatta people of Ethiopia (1932-1937) and among the Dinka people of Sudan (1938-1949). There is also some information on his involvement in other ministries, such as Ambassadors for Christ and the Allentown Rescue Mission.

Dates: Created: 1926-2003

Filtered By

  • Subject: Persecution X

Additional filters:

Subject
Bible. 2
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
China -- History. 2
Church work with women -- China. 2
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Church work with women. 2
Communism -- China. 2
Communism. 2
Conversion. 2
Evangelistic work -- China. 2
Evangelistic work. 2
Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
Missionaries. 2
Missions -- China. 2
Missions -- India. 2
Persecution -- China. 2
Rural missions. 2
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Women missionaries. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
Allentown (Pa.) 1
Amhara (African people) 1
Animism -- Sudan. 1
Animism. 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Buddhists -- China. 1
Buddhists. 1
Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
Catholic Church -- Relations 1
Catholic Church. 1
Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
China -- Description and travel. 1
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
China -- History -- 1949- 1
China -- Religion. 1
Chinese -- Missions. 1
Chinese -- Philippines. 1
Chinese. 1
Christian education -- China. 1
Christian education -- Philippines. 1
Christian education. 1
Christian martyrs -- China. 1
Christian martyrs. 1
Christianity and culture. 1
Church and social problems. 1
Church and state -- China. 1
Church and state. 1
Church development, New. 1
Church growth -- China. 1
Church growth. 1
Church work with children -- China. 1
Church work with children. 1
Church work with military personnel -- China. 1
Church work with military personnel. 1
Church work with refugees -- China. 1
Church work with refugees. 1
Church work with students -- China. 1
Church work with students. 1
College students -- United States 1
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
College students. 1
Conversion -- Personal narratives. 1
Dinka (African people) 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
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936. 1
Kambata (African people) 1
Keswick movement. 1
Language in missionary work. 1
Medical care 1
Medical care -- China. 1
Missionaries' spouses. 1
Missionaries, Resignation of. 1
Missions -- Educational work. 1
Missions -- Ethiopia. 1
Missions -- Finance. 1
Missions -- Kenya. 1
Missions -- Philippines. 1
Missions -- Sudan. 1
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
Missions to Buddhists. 1
Missions, Medical. 1
Pentecostalism -- China. 1
Pentecostalism. 1
Persecution -- Sudan. 1
Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 1
Presbyterian Church. 1
Presbyterians -- United States. 1
Presbyterians. 1
Refugees 1
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