Papers, 1909-1969.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1909-1969.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50016074

The collected papers are mostly personal, hand written letters and photographs. Approximately 90 per cent of the letters are to his wife. Many of these describe in detail where he is, what he is doing and how the people are responding. References to Southern Baptist career foreign missionaries mentioned in the collection are: William H. Cannada, W.T. Entzminger, Soloman Ginsburg, David L. Hamilton, Jepthah E. Hamilton, Alva B. Langston, John W. Shepard and Erik Nelson. Others mentioned are J.B. Lawrence, Una Roberts Lawrence, J.B. Love and R.J. Willingham.

1.75 linear ft.

Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7617282

Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Southern Baptist Convention. Home Mission Board

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6186zpq (corporateBody)

The Home Mission Board began work in Cuba in 1886. Work in the country expanded for about a decade, but by the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, nearly all mission activity had been demoralized. At the close of the war, the Board entered an agreement with the American Baptist Home Mission Society under which the eastern half of Cuba was transferred to the Society and the SBC's Home Mission Board retained the western half. Southern Baptist work in Western Cuba flourished through the 1950s....

Plainfield, Joseph Frank, 1880-1976.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q2896g (person)

Baptist missionary to Italians in America. Born in Italy with the name Guiseppi Francesco Piani to Catholic parents. He came under the influence of Baptist missionaries Solomon Ginsburg and William Henry Cannada and converted to the Baptist faith. He traveled to the United States and attended William Jewell College and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife Alice Lusas Plainfield served as missionaries to Italians in Texas, St. Louis and Tampa under the American Baptist Home ...

Plainfield, Alice Lucus.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m94jvv (person)

Ginsburg, Solomon L., 1867-1927.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z629m4 (person)

Southern Baptist missionary to Brazil, 1892-1927. Polish-born. Went to Brazil and became a Baptist and joined with Foreign Mission Board. With Erik Alfred Nelson founded the first Baptist church in the Amazon Valley. Author of "A Wandering Jew in Brazil: An Autobiography." Associated with North Brazil Baptist Seminary, Recife, and Carroll Memorial (Baptist) Publishing House, Rio de Janeiro. In 1893 married Emma Morton, a Southern Baptist missionary already on the field. From the desc...