Letters, 1925-1941.

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Letters, 1925-1941.

This collection consists of sixteen spiral-bound volumes containing typescript copies of letters written by Lewis and Lois Gilbert to their families during their missionary years in China.

.80 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7236809

Oberlin College Library

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Gilbert, Lewis, 1898-1978.

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The Rev. Lewis Loder Gilbert (1898-1978) and his wife, Lois Chandler Gilbert (d. 1969) went to China in 1925 to teach in the Yale-in- China college of Yali, at Changsha. Due to warfare between North and South rival factions, they were evacuated to the United States in 1927. They returned in 1929 and, except for a furlough in 1935-36, were stationed in Shantung Province as missionaries for the United Church of Christ until 1941. Lewis Gilbert was a lecturer in Oberlin's Graduate School of Theolog...

Gilbert, Lewis L., 1898-1978

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Yale-in-China Association

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Oberlin College. Graduate School of Theology

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The Graduate School of Theology began as the Theological Department of Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1833. Academic work began in 1835 with the arrival of rebel seminarians from Lane Theological Seminary. By the 1870s, the school had become known as the Oberlin Theological Seminary. Its name changed to the Graduate School of Theology in 1916. The purpose of the seminary throughout its 133-year history was the training of ministers in a non-sectarian, non-denominational setting. The seminary cl...

Gilbert, Lois C., d. 1969

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