Detweiler, Charles Samuel, 1878-

Charles Detweiler was born in Illinois on February 15, 1878 to John Samuel and Sarah Ella German. The family settled in Omaha, Nebraska. Detweiler received his A.B. from Midland College in Kansas in 1897. He later received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Denison University in 1930. In 1898, he went to Ecuador as a missionary for the Gospel Missionary Union. He served the natives of the Napo River region at the headwaters of the Amazon and then preached and sold bibles in Quito and Ambato. In 1903, Detweiler became an independent missionary. On October 5th, 1904, he married Margaret Evans, with whom he had four children. In 1907, Detweiler returned to the United States to become a Baptist and obtained a position as a preacher in Minnesota. In 1909, he served the American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) in Puerto Rico. In 1919, he became its Superintendent of the Department for Latin American Missions. During his 30 years in that role, he contributed to Baptist publications many writings on religious and Latin American topics. In 1938, he was a delegate to the Baptist World Missions Conference in Madras, India. He was a Secretary to the Department of Education of the Home Mission Society, which oversaw the administration of Bacone College, a college for Native Americans in Oklahoma, and Spanish-American Baptist Theological Seminary in Los Angeles. From 1947 to 1948, he served as president of Bacone. Retiring from the ABHMS in 1948, Detweiler and his wife moved to Denver, Colorado. There he functioned as an interim preacher for Baptist churches. He died September 22, 1962.

From the description of Charles Detweiler papers, 1898-1963. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54069205

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