George and Mary Schlosser Papers, 1901-1988

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George and Mary Schlosser Papers, 1901-1988

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The papers document the work of the conservativeFree Methodist Church in central China. Both George and Mary Schlosser wasactive in evangelistic work in the countryside and came in close contact withthe Chinese people. Famine relief work, societal routine, and the disruption ofChinese society during the period 1908 to 1949 are documented. George and MaryOgren Schlosser were missionaries under the Free Methodist Church ForeignMissionary Board. Stationed primarily in Honan Province, George served from1908 until his death in 1936. Mary served from 1909 to 1936, and then returnedto China from 1939 to 1940 and 1946 to 1949. In the years between hermissionary work she was a pastor in North Dakota and South Dakota.

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Schlosser, George, 1875-1936.

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George Donald Schlosser was born in Clinton County, Missouri in 1875. Maria Christina (Mary) Ogren was born in Jamestown, New York in 1885. They met while attending Greenville College in Illinois in 1905. George Schlosser left Greenville in 1906 to serve in South Africa under the Foreign Missionary Board of the Free Methodist Church. In 1908, he arrived in China and took responsibility for an orphanage in Kiangsu Province. After her graduation from Greenville College in 1909, Mary Ogren was stat...

Schlosser, Mary, 1885-1955.

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Free Methodist Church of North America

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The Free Methodist denomination was founded in 1860. Congregations that were expelled from the Methodist Episcopal Church in western New York state and Illinois comprised its first adherents. Early leaders include B.T. Roberts, Loren Stiles, Walter Sellew, John Wesley Redfield and Wilson T. Hogue. Theologically, the denomination is part of the Wesleyan tradition and was an early player in the Holiness Movement that swept through the United States in the later part of the 19th centur...