Lewis Sperry Chafer selected Correspondence, 1922-1951, and n.d.

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Lewis Sperry Chafer selected Correspondence, 1922-1951, and n.d.

Artificial collection compiled of photocopies of selected correspondence. The letters were chosen from the correspondence Chafer had with lay people and ministers discussing a wide variety of subject.

0.46 linear ft.

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Dallas Theological Seminary.

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Chafer, Lewis Sperry, 1871-1952

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Lewis Sperry Chafer was born on February 27, 1871 in Rock Creek, Ohio. He was the youngest of Thomas and Lomira Chafer's three children. Thomas was a parson and died when Lewis was 11. To support the family, Lewis' mother taught school, then later kept boarders in their home, and the children earned what they could at odd jobs. Lewis met Ella Loraine Case at Oberlin College, and they married on April 22, 1896. Lewis' early training was in music, but he became convinced that God was calling him t...