W. Stanley Rycroft papers, 1926-1993.

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W. Stanley Rycroft papers, 1926-1993.

Collection consists of writings, correspondence, subject files and clippings, photographs and other materials.

4.58 cubic feet (6 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8175657

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations

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The first Presbyterian missionaries to Japan arrived in Yokohama in 1859. Despite hostility experienced by the missionaries throughout the closing decades of the 19th century, mission activities continued to expand. After 1906, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church transferred its work in Japan to the PCUSA Board of Foreign Missions. The mission's work was primarily educational and evangelistic. Because of the extensive system of Japanese hospitals and primary schools, the Board made no effort to c...

McCord, James I. (James Iley), 1919-1990

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Rycroft, W. Stanley (William Stanley)

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W. Stanley Rycroft; missionary, teacher and general advocate for Protestant missions in Latin America and for the separation of church and state in the United States; was born and raised in England. In 1922, Rycroft went to Lima, Peru as a missionary of the Free Church of Scotland. In 1940, he relocated to New York, where he was elected executive secretary of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America (CCLA), an interdenominational committee of thirty Protestant missi...

Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955

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John Raleigh Mott was born on May 25, 1865 in Livingston Manor, New York to John Stitt and Elmira Dodge Mott. John R. was the third of four children, having two older and one younger sister. The family soon moved to Postville, Iowa, where the elder Mott prospered as a retail lumber and hardware merchant and became mayor. In this conservative, ethnically diverse environment, young Mott grew to mid-adolescence in a home warmed by Methodist "holiness," which faith he confessed...

Leber, Charles Tudor, 1898-1959

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Mackay, John Alexander, 1889-1983

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Americans United for Separation of Church and State

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Americans United for the Separation of Church and State was founded in 1947 as Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The organization is non-profit, non-partisan, and non-sectarian, and is dedicated to religious freedom and the firm separation of church and state. Americans United works to educate legislators and the public on issues of religious liberty and has more than sixty local chapters throughout the country. Under the aegis of Projec...

Committee on Cooperation in Latin America

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Organized by the Committee on Reference and Council of the Foreign Missions Conference of North Amreica in 1913. Includes material from Congress on Christian Work in Latin America, Panama. From the description of Records of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, 1915-1961 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702132574 ...

Sinclair, John H., 1924-

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions

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The first Presbyterian missionaries to Japan arrived in Yokohama in 1859. Despite hostility experienced by the missionaries throughout the closing decades of the 19th century, mission activities continued to expand. After 1906, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church transferred its work in Japan to the PCUSA Board of Foreign Missions. The mission's work was primarily educational and evangelistic. Because of the extensive system of Japanese hospitals and primary schools, the Board made no effort to c...