Collections | Archives of Wheaton College

J. W. Boone Concert Handbill

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 107

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a handbill for a concert by pianist J.W. Boone with photos of Boone and his associates, and a brief biography of Boone.

Dates: Other: Undated

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

J. Wesley and Anna Bovyer Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 131

Scope and Contents Materials in this collection include photographs, hand embroidery, prayer letters, personal correspondence, naturalization papers, financial records, family trees, wills and codicils, medical documents, and records relating to missionaries J. Wesley and Anna Ellmers Bovyer, superintendents at the Home of the Nazarene Industrial Orphanage in Chinkiang, China from 1908-1941. The materials also cover the Bovyer's residence as alien enemies in a Japanese internment camp from 1941-1945 during the...

Dates: Created: 1908-1953

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

J. Wilbur Chapman Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 077

Scope and Contents

Microfilm from the Presbyterian Historical Society of correspondence, sermons, sermon notes, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia documenting the life and ministry of J. Wilbur Chapman. Materials detail Chapman's life from his early education through his pastoral Ministry and full-time evangelistic work. Documents also relate to his interests in Bible conference centers in Winona Lake, IN, Montreat, NC, and Stony Brook, NY.

Dates: Created: 1880-1918

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jack C. Goode Collection

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-068

Scope and Contents

Jack C. Goode Papers are a non-manuscript collection and are composed of three series: biographical, manuscripts and secondary. The bulk of the collection focuses on sheet music compositions of hymns, organ, collaborative and commissioned works.

Dates: Created: 1921-2018; Other: Date acquired: 1994

Found in: Special Collections

Jack Frizen Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 434

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, articles, brochures, booklets, clippings, correspondence, directories, financial records, manuals, minutes, publications, reports, and other materials documenting Jack Frizen's life and ministry. Material mainly describes Frizen’s family life, work with G.I. Gospel Hour, director of Far East Gospel Crusade (now SEND International), executive director of Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA), director of Tyndale House Foundation, trustee of the Henry...

Dates: Created: 1929-1995

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jack Shuler Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 073

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a scrapbook containing brochures, posters, and newspaper clippings used in the 1951 "Key to Life" evangelistic campaign of evangelist Jack Shuler, held in Grand Rapids, Michigan; sponsored by the Christian Businessmen's Committee of Grand Rapids.

Dates: Created: 1951

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jacob Chamberlain Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 495

Scope and Contents Two volumes of letterbooks which contain copies of the handwritten correspondence of Jacob Chamberlain, a missionary to India. He worked with the Arcot Mission under the Reformed Church in America Board of Foreign Missions. Volume 1 dates from June 1869 to July 1874 and Volume 2 from January 1880 to January 1882.Each volume is separated into two sections, official correspondence and personal correspondence; both types describe Chamberlain's work as a medical missionary, itinerant...

Dates: Created: 1882

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jacqueline Huggins Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 545

Scope and Contents One oral history interview, one videotape, one radio interview, one photograph, and prayer letters related to the ministry of Jacqueline Huggins, missionary and Bible translator with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Kagayanen people of the Philippines.The recordings, comprising the majority of the collection, consist of an oral history with Huggins (see detailed description which follows) and of the radio program Family Portraits segment hosted...

Dates: Created: 1985-1997

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jacques Ellul Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-016

Scope and Contents The Jacques Ellul Collection is based upon a three-reel microfilm set, which follows Jacques Ellul: A Comprehensive Bibliography (published in Research on Philosophy and Technology, supplement 1, 1984) compiled by Dr. Joyce Main Hanks. The microfilm contains many of the hard-to-find Ellul essay, speeches and lectures. The comprehensive bibliography was followed by an update in 1991 (Jacques Ellul: A Comprehensive Bibliographic Update, in Research in Philosophy and Technology, vol. 11)....

Dates: Created: 1936-2017; Other: Date acquired: 1986

Found in: Special Collections

James B. Dillon Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 257

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with James B. Dillon in which he discusses his conversion, marriage work in Liberia for the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), the programs of radio station Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA), the cultural diversity of Liberia, and the nature of indigenous Liberian hymns and worship.James Dillon was interviewed by Wheaton graduate student Claire Bureau for her ethnomusicology course on October 29, 1983 at the Billy Graham Center on Wheaton College campus. The...

Dates: Created: 1983

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

James Birney Letter

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 103

Scope and Contents

This collection contains one letter from abolitionist leader Birney to S. Silsbee (?) in which Birney gives his opinion on the question whether it was ethical for a missionary to work for a board supported by slaveholders.

Dates: Created: 1839

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

James Burleson Dissertation Research Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-16

Abstract

This archive contains James Burleson's correspondence with Ann Bowden, Muriel St. Clare Byrne, Charles Dywer, Marion Fairman, Anthony Fleming, Livia Gollancz, Marjorie Mead, Barbara Reynolds, James Sandoe, and Armitage Watkins regarding his dissertation. Also included are two pages of Burleson's dissertation titled: A Study of the Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. (Wade Call no.: PR6037.A95 Z6258 1965 Diss.)

Dates: Created: 1931-1997

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

James E. Burr Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-102

Scope and Contents The James E. Burr Collection primarily documents the imprisonement of George Thompson, Alanson Work, and James E. Burr while students at the Mission Institute (Quincy, Illinois) during the 1840s. Primary source documents include newsclippings, court transcripts, and original correspondence while Clyde S. Kilby's research cards and notes from the 1950s provide additional background material. In recent years, new research has begun by Wheaton alumna Marcia Daniels and is regularly updated in a...

Dates: Created: 1841-2008; Other: Date acquired: 1959

Found in: Special Collections

James E. McConnell Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 119

Scope and Contents

One audio tape of two programs of Smilin' Ed Mc Connell's radio series, probably broadcast in the 1930s or '40s. Programs were fifteen minutes long and included the singing of four hymns. McConnell would pause after the first two selections to make a sales presentation for his hymnals and allow his sponsors a promotional advertisement. Rodeheaver music company published a hymnbook in 1933 called Smilin' Ed Mc Connell's Favorite Radio Hymns, containing over fifty hymns.

Dates: Other: Undated

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

James Edwin Wright Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 326

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and personal notebook relating to the ministry of James E. Wright with Youth for Christ in India, Mexico, and the United States.Series 1: Audio TapesOral history interviews with James E. Wright in which he describes his youth, conversion and spiritual growth, education at Wheaton College and Multnomah School of the Bible, involvement with Youth For Christ in Portland, Oregon, India and Mexico, counseling and follow-up...

Dates: Created: 1950-1986

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

James Hudson Taylor Letters

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 092

Scope and Contents

This collection contains two letters from James Hudson Taylor to a Mr. Sloane written while traveling, discussing China Inland Mission affairs, including financial contributions, conferences, and concerns for friends and co-workers.

Dates: Created: 1896-1898

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

James K. Friedrich Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 327

Scope and Contents Oral history with James Kempe Friedrich (1903-1966) by Mr. Kearney (?) in which Friedrich discusses his career as a pastor specializing in production of Christian films to be used in churches, particularly for children. Included is a discussion of his reasons for choice of actors, use of Walt Disney Studios, and effectiveness of a film ministry. The time period covered by the interview is circa 1930 to 1947.James K. Friedrich was interviewed by a Mr. Kearney (?) during the Fourth...

Dates: Created: 1947

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

James Neece Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 380

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with James Halloway Neece in which he describes his conversion to Christianity, education at Multnomah School of the Bible and Wheaton College, his work as a prison chaplain at the DuPage County Jail. Other topics discussed include the spiritual needs of prisoners, the AIDS crisis, Charles Colson and Prison Fellowship, and the work of the Good News Mission. The time period covered by the interviews is 1941-1987.James Neece was interviewed by Paul Ericksen...

Dates: Created: 1987

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jane (Teresa) Leasor Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 125

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Jane (Teresa) Leasor (1922-2009) in which she describes her post-graduate education at Biblical Seminary in New York City; teaching at a secondary school for girls and a college for women in Beirut, Lebanon; the Arabic language; Islam; the place of women in Islam society; and the relationship between various Christian churches in Lebanon.Teresa Leasor was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 24 and September 7, 1982. There was an earlier tape recorded...

Dates: Created: 1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Janet Kuhns Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 390

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and manuscript, relating to the ministry of Janet Kuhns, missionary among the Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia under the auspices of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CM&A).[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "Folder 1-1" means box 1, Folder 1.]Series: Audio TapesThree oral history interviews with Janet Kuhns in which she...

Dates: Created: 1987-1988

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Janet Wismer Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: CN 719

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, transcripts of broadcasts, correspondence, newsletters, articles, photogrpahs and memorabilia, relating to the friendship of Wismer and Elisabeth Elliot and Wismer's work as a staff member and producer for Elisabeth Elliot’s Gateway to Joy radio program.

Dates: 1959-2012; Majority of material found within 1981-2012

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jarbas Da Silva Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 523

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Jarbas Da Silva in which he discusses his childhood in San Paulo, Brazil; conversion to Christianity; Baptist Bible College; Russell Shedd; joining the Africa Inland Mission as a missionary to Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Brazil; first impressions of Mozambique; the development of Sofala Bible Institute Beira City, Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Mozambique; aftermath of the civil war; his perspective on the need for...

Dates: Created: 1994

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Javier Gonzalo Velasquez Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 469

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Javier Gonzalo Velasquez, in which he describes his family background; childhood in Peru; conversion to Christianity; the work of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church in Lima; his education at Rio Grande Bible Institute and Columbia Bible College; his work as a South America Mission (SAM) missionary in Bolivia and Peru; the BGEA's 1990 Mission World campaign in Paraguay. Other topics discussed include: the history and development of the CMA in Peru;...

Dates: Created: 1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

J.B. Russell Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-007

Scope and Contents The Russell papers contains biographical information, in the form of genealogical information. Correspondence in the collection contains correspondence sent and received in the form of family letters, letters from Elizabeth Alexander, from Elbert and H. W. Sutcliffe, letters to Elsie Isabel Gunn Russell and various postcards. Photographs of the Russell family are found in the collection. Along with J. B. Russell's papers are several diaries of Edna Russell (November 19, 1894-June 2,...

Dates: Created: 1848-1989; Other: Majority of material found in 1893-1930; Other: Date acquired: 1972

Found in: Special Collections

Jean Leckemby Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-142

Scope and Contents

The Jean Leckemby scrapbooks number four volumes, spanning her years at Wheaton during 1937, '38, '39 and '40. Each volume contains programs of campus events, literary societies, rulebooks, holiday cards, correspondence and newspaper clippings. The books measure 10 1/2 x 14.

Dates: Created: 1937-1940; Other: Majority of material found in 1937-1940

Found in: Special Collections

Jeanne Blumhagen Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 672

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Jeanne Bourland Blumhagen in which she describes her family background; effects of the Great Depression; conversion and spiritual development; education at Whitworth University, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois; World War II; medical missionary service in Afghanistan with the American Embassy in Kabul, Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship (BMMF), Medical Assistance Program (MAP), and later Interserve, and serving on the Wheaton College Board...

Dates: 2013-2017

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jeanne Clayton Hunter Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-113a

Abstract

A collection of Barfield correspondence, poems, manuscripts, publications, and other related materials from Professor Jeanne Clayton Hunter.

Dates: Created: 1920-1998

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Jeanne Murray Walker Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-072

Scope and Contents

The Jeanne Murray Walker papers are organized into five series, Biographical, Correspondence, Manuscripts, Media and Research Material. The bulk of the collection is divided amongst the Manuscripts and Correspondence series. The manuscripts comprise mostly play-related files, rather than poetry. The correspondence is mostly that which was received by Ms. Walker dating from 1990 to 2003.

Dates: Created: 1988-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1988-2003; Other: Date acquired: 1999

Found in: Special Collections

Jeannette Thiessen Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 260

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church,...

Dates: Created: 1983

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jeffrey R. Wetherill Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 494

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Jeffrey R. Wetherill in which he discusses his childhood, parents, interest in sports, conversion, involvement with Fellowship of Christian Athletes, work as a Youth for Christ club director, youth pastor at an Evangelical Mennonite Church, joining Greater Europe Mission (GEM), youth work in Dublin, Ireland, relations between Irish Catholics and evangelical Protestants, and GEM methods of ministry in Ireland. The time period covered by the interviews is 1966 to...

Dates: Created: 1993

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jennie Benson Scrapbook

Collection — Box: I

Identifier: SC-128

Scope and Contents This small book, embossed in gold lettering depicting the word "Autographs," is Jennie Benson's 1882 collection of reminiscenses from her Wheaton College classmates. Each page presents a poem, warm sentiment or simply the name of friends who signed it. The handwriting, scripted in various colors of ink, demonstrates the straight, elegant, deliberate cursive of the day. A typical inscription reads, "Dear Jennie, Be assured that you will never be forgotten by your room-mate of 1872. Ella...

Dates: Created: 1872-1878

Found in: Special Collections

Jennie Fitzwilliam Papers Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 272

Scope and Contents Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...

Dates: Created: 1985

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jesse W. Hoover Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 319

Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Jesse Wilbert Hoover (1908-2002) in which he discuesses his pietistic background and beliefs, his education at Messiah and Wheaton Colleges, his involvement in Mennonite relief work in Europe and the Far East and his evangelistic work in Canada. The time period covered by the interviews is 1908-1947.

Jesse W. Hoover was interviewed by Paul Ericksen on October 7, 1985 in Greenfield, Indiana.

Dates: Created: 1985

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jessie McDonald Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 246

Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, notes, articles, photographs, and annual reports relating to Jessie McDonald's medical work in China from 1913-1952 with China Inland Mission. The documents include information on evangelistic outreach and the nature of health conditions in China. The materials also describe the political and social upheavals occurring in China during the first half of the 1900s.The correspondence by Dr. Mc Donald is supplemented by some correspondence of her co-workers...

Dates: Created: 1907-1951

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jessie Penn-Lewis Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-099

Scope and Contents The papers of Jessie Penn-Lewis occupies approximately .5 linear feet and highlights the correspondence, writing and travels of Penn-Lewis. The collection is organized into two major series, Correspondence and Publications. Each of these series is sub-divided even further into a half-dozen sub-series each. Correspondence is the largest portion of the collection and covers a time period of 1900 to 1922. Correspondence sent and received is represented, as well as secondary...

Dates: Created: 1892-1922; Other: Majority of material found in 1900-1922; Other: Date acquired: 1999

Found in: Special Collections

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-237

Scope and Contents Jill Peláez Baumgaertner Papers are organized into four series: Essays/Reviews, Poetry, Biographical, and Correspondence.Essays/Reviews contain material over three decades from 1972-2003. Poetry (published and unpublished) is organized by year and contains manuscripts from 1983 to 2012. Biographical contains letters written by Chaplain Martin Baumgaertner (USAF) during WWII and Korean War, as well as, media and photographs. Correspondence (personal) covers over fifty years from...

Dates: Created: 1972-2016; Other: Date acquired: 07/12/2017

Found in: Special Collections

Jim Elliot Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 277

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, tapes of sermons and audio letters, journals, notebooks, annotated Bibles, school records, poems, clippings, drawings, and other materials describing Elliot's courtship of his wife Elisabeth, his spiritual preparation for the mission field, early days of his work in Ecuador, and events leading up to his death and those of four other missionaries at the hands of the Waorani (called "Auca" by their enemies) people. Microfilm edition of materials available for researcher use.

Dates: Created: 1941-1959; Majority of material found within 1947-1956

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jim Vaus Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 693

Scope and Contents Newsletters, oral history transcripts, manuscripts, correspondence, slides, photographs, audio recordings, and films relating to Jim Vaus’ youth ministry work in East Harlem, NY and later youth camp ministries in New York and California and internationally with the Missionary Communication Service. The collection also contains material on Jim Vaus’ work as a wiretapper for the Los Angeles mob prior to his conversion to Christianity at the 1949 Los Angeles Billy Graham Crusade, and the 1955...

Dates: Created: 1950-2001

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Jim Wallis Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-109

Scope and Contents

The Jim Wallis Papers are composed of book manuscripts, journal articles and book reviews by/about the author, correspondence, press clippings, photographs and audio cassettes (with transcripts). (see also Sojourners Records)

Dates: Created: 1971-2012; Other: Date acquired: 1988

Found in: Special Collections

Joan M. Wise Oral History Interviews

Item

Identifier: CN 568

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews in which Wise talks about her Catholic childhood; the influence of the Jesus People movement; David Rose; her conversion experience; joining Youth With A Missions (YWAM); work with Vietnamese refugee youth in Hong Kong; the Revival Christian Church of Hong Kong; becoming an independent missionary; creating Sunday schools in north and south Vietnam; Church and state in Vietnam; condition of the church in Vietnam; speaking in tongues; miracles in Vietnam; ancestor...

Dates: 2000

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Joe Hill McClatchey Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-045

Scope and Contents

The McClatchey papers are organized into seven series: Biographical, Correspondence, Manuscripts, Published Works, Syllabi, Teaching Materials (Files), Video. Nearly the entire collection is found in the Teaching Materials series. These files served as the background material for his classroom lectures. Another significant element of the collection is the unpublished manuscript "The praise of God in literature: from Homer to Hopkins."

Dates: Created: 1979-2008; Other: Majority of material found in 1987-1990; Other: Date acquired: 1992

Found in: Special Collections

Joe R. Christopher Publications Archive

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-125

Abstract

Publications containing bibliographies and other materials relating to the Wade authors by Joe R. Christopher.

Dates: Created: 1978-2017

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Joel D. Heck Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-54

Abstract

Correspondence between Joel Heck and students or colleagues of C.S. Lewis in preparation for his book: Irrigating Deserts: C.S. Lewis on Education. Included in the correspondence are the Magdalen tutorial lists from 1926 to 1954, students' lecture notes, an essay, a diary, newspaper clippings concerning Lewis and a brochure about the play Shadowlands.

Dates: Created: 1942-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 2002-2003

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Joel Martínez Hernandez Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 522

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Joel Martínez Hernandez in which he discusses his early childhood in Jaruco, Cuba; conversion to Christianity; being son of missionaries; bi-culturalism; Toccoa Falls boarding school and college; effect of service in the United States Navy on spiritual development; reasons for not being TEAM missionary; missionary work in Barcelona and then Madrid, Spain with Christian & Missionary Alliance; traditional church models versus cell-group based models; education...

Dates: Created: 1995

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Johanna Defoy Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 667

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Johanna Defoy (1981- ), French missionary and church planter working in France from 2009 to 2011. Topics discussed include Defoy’s early life in France, parents, spiritual interest, conversion and growing faith, evangelism experiences, church involvement, professional experience, influence of a woman missionary, Christian university group and outreach, Groupes Bibliques Universitaires or GBU Christian university group (International Fellowship of Evangelical...

Dates: 2011

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

John A. Gration Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 230

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with John Alexander Gration (1926-2012). Topics discussed include: Gration's Christian activities in high school and the U.S. Navy, education at Moody Bible Institute, Gordon College, and Wheaton College; his spiritual growth and call to become a missionary, his marriage, and his first impressions of and missionary experiences with Africa Inland mission in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Christianity and culture, animism, superstition, AIM...

Dates: Created: 1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

John A. Huffman, Sr., Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 389

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, correspondence, films, negatives, photographs, and radio programs which document the life and ministry of John A. Huffman, Sr. The materials cover his presidency of the Winona Lake School of Theology dealing mainly with the work of the students and faculty. There are some materials on the relationship of the School with Fuller Theological Seminary, films about Islam, the WLST tour of Israel and over two dozen radio programs of Great Moments with the Master and...

Dates: Created: 1934-1988

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

John A. MacDonald Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 489

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with John Allan MacDonald (1921-2014) in which he discusses his education and activities at Wheaton College from his graduation in 1943; literary societies; friends and faculty; the impact of World War II on the campus; Billy Graham and his role in the United Gospel Tabernacle in Wheaton; MacDonald's evangelistic and church ministry among San Francisco hippies in the late 1960s and work with Jews for Jesus (JFJ) and its founder Moishe Rosen. The second interview...

Dates: Created: 1993-1994

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

John and Florence Stauffacher Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 281

Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, notes, clippings, and photographs relating to the Stauffachers' work as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission, chiefly from 1911 to the early 1940s. The materials document their careers from the earliest stages, describing their responsibilities and everyday life, primarily in Kenya and the Belgian Congo, but also in Uganda & Tanzania, their developing relationship by correspondence prior to Mrs. Stauffacher's arrival in Kenya and their subsequent...

Dates: Created: 1902-1973

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

John and Joyce Schmale Civil War Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-156

Scope and Contents

The John and Joyce Schmale Civil War Collection is composed mainly of monographs related to the history of the U.S. Civil War. Manuscript material contains biographical information, correspondence, photographs and memorabilia of various Civil War chaplains.

Dates: Created: 1861-2017; Other: Date acquired: 2002

Found in: Special Collections

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