Merrill Dunlop collection, 1978-1988.

Smith, Oswald J

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Pastor, evangelist, hymn lyricist, missions promoter, and author. Born Oswald Jeffrey Smith in 1889; ordained 1915; pastor of several large churches in Toronto starting in 1922; married Daisy Billings in 1916; died in 1986. From the description of Papers of Oswald J. Smith, 1890-1986. (Wheaton College). WorldCat record id: 26449130 ...

WMBI (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)

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HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador)

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Dunlop, Merrill.

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WHT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)

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Youth for Christ International

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Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 1868-1957

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McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944

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Evangelist, radio speaker, founder of International Church of the Foursquare Gospel; born Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy to Canadian parents on October 9, 1890; married Robert Semple in 1908; went together to China as missionaries but she returned to the United States in 1911 with her baby daughter after Robert's death; in 1912, she married Harold McPherson, who she divorced in 1921; began to travel as an independent evangelist in 1916; eventually settled in Los Angeles, where in 1923 she founded the I...

Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935

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William Ashley Sunday, Sr., American evangelist, was born November 19, 1862 in Ames, Iowa. After holding various jobs while completing high school, he was recruited to join the Chicago White Stockings, a professional baseball team. He committed his life to Christ in 1886 or 1887, upon following a street gospel band back to their mission. He married Helen Amelia Thompson in 1888. He gave talks to young men in the cities his team visited and worked part-time for the Chicago YMCA. He coached the ba...

WJBT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)

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Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909-

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Evangelist, pastor, first president of Youth for Christ; born in the Chicago area, March 15, 1909; graduated from Wheaton College (B.S., 1930); married Evelyn Nilsen, 1930; in 1933 helped found the Midwest Bible Church in Chicago and served as its pastor until 1953; received a bachelor of divinity degree from Northern Baptist Seminary in 1936 and was a professor there until 1940; in the early 1940s participated in the creation of various Evangelical organizations, including Youth for Christ whic...

Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.)

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Independent fundamentalist church; founded by evangelist Paul Rader in 1922 and from then until Rader's resignation in 1933 was the center of a wide ranging, city-wide program of evangelistic activity; during the Depression and afterwards the church was much more modest in its activities, although it did have its own radio program; dissolved in 1979 because of declining membership. From the description of Records of Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, 1952-1979. (Wheaton College). WorldCat re...

Philpot, Ford.

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Johnson, Jimmie, 1975-

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Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.)

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Independent conservative Protestant church; founded by Dwight L. Moody in Chicago, 1864; one of the leading churches of Chicago and of Fundamentalism-Evangelicalism in the U.S.; originally called the Illinois Street Church, 1864-1871; after the building burned in the Chicago Fire, the congregation built a new structure at Chicago Avenue, which gave the church its name until it was renamed the Moody Church in 1900. From the description of Records of Moody Memorial Church, 1864-1987. (...

Haggai, John Edmund.

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Rader, Paul, 1879-1938

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Jaffray, Robert A. (Robert Alexander), 1873-1945

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Harrison, William K.

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William Kelly Harrison, Jr. was born Sept. 7, 1895 in Washington, DC, to Kate Harris Harrison and Commander William K. Harrison, a U.S. naval officer.The younger Harrison graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in the spring of 1917.He married Eva Antoinette Toole Dec. 13, 1917. They had three children: William Kelly Harrison III, Evelyn, and Wentworth Terry. W. K. Harrison, Jr. served in the U.S. Army for forty years. After he retired from the army with the rank of Lt. General in 1957, he was ...