Charles Detweiler papers 1898-1963

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Charles Detweiler papers 1898-1963

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Charles Detweiler was a Christian missionary in Latin America. The Detweiler Papers consist of Detweiler's sermons, manuscripts and articles, which focus on the missionary field in Latin America. There are also religious pamphlets, photographs, and scrapbooks. This collection contains texts written in both English and Spanish. Some of the most interesting information in this collection pertains to Detweiler's first years of missionary service in Ecuador at the turn of the 20th century. Later, some of his writings attend to the turbulent years of revolution and political unrest in Latin America. These cultural and historical highlights are spread amongst a large amount of religious writings.

3.5 linear feet, 10 containers

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University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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American Baptist Home Mission Society

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Gospel Missionary Union

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Detweiler, Charles Samuel, 1878-

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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....