FINEGAN, Jack. 11.7.1908 — Oakland, Calif. 15.7.2000. U.S. Archaeologist and Scholar of the Bible and Religion. Professor at Iowa State University in Ames, then Professor of New Testament History and Archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. Also a minister of University Christian Church. Publications: The Archeology of…
DUNCAN, Marion Herbert. Celina, co. Mercer, Ohio 17.1.1896 — Boonsboro, co. Washington, Maryland ?.1.1977. U.S. Missionary in Khams (Eastern Tibet). Son of John Stephen D. (1872–1912) and Sarah Jane Russell (1874–1904), graduated from Hiram College. In 1921-35 served as missionary of the Disciples of Christ in Batang (‘Ba‘-thams) in Khams (Lopez)…
CUTLER, Harriet B. L. 1??? — 1???. U.S. Missionary in India. Wife of Rev. Oliver C., arrived at Assam in 1836, conducted a school for girls while her husband taught boys. They were still working in Sibsagar in 1847. Publications: Vocabulary and Phrases in English and Assamese. 251 p. Sibsagar,…
CRAVEN, Thomas. Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales 28.3.1844 — 1919. Rev. U.S. (born Welsh) Methodist Missionary in India. Son of Henry Cr. and Eliza Poval., grew up in Evanston, Ill. Educated at Northwestern University (M.A.) and Garrett Bible Seminary. B.D. From 1870 in India, worked in Lucknow. Married 1870 Jane Maria Wells (1836–1914),…
CRANE, Robert Irwin. Delhi 1920 — Syracuse, NY 1997. U.S. Historian of South Asia. Born in India to missionary parent. Studies at Duke, B.A. 1941 just before WW II. In war service again in South Asia. Renewed studies at Yale. Ph.D. 1951 Yale. Worked as Instructor at Chicago, Associate Professor…
BROWN, Nathan. New Ipswich, NH 22.6.1807 — Yokohama 1.1.1885. Rev. U.S. Baptist Missionary in India and Japan. Son of Nathan Brown and Elizabeth Goldsmith. Educated at Williams College and Newton Theological Institution. Worked two years as teacher in Vermont and from 1832 as missionary, first in Burma and from 1836…
BROOKS, Sarah Wells. 18?? — 19??. U.S.Early Female Student. Studied from 1892 at Harvard Annex for women (soon Radcliffe College). Learned Sanskrit under Lanman and assisted H. C. Warren, but mainly concentrated on zoology and landscaping. Later on, she lived many years in her own farm in Concord MA, but…
BRICE, Nathaniel. 1??? — 18??. U.S. Baptist Missionary in India. The Preface of the book is signed in Dinapore (now Danapur in Bihar), where the birth of a daughter is mentioned in 1843. The Baptist missionary J. G. Gregson married 1861 the eldest daughter of Nath. Brice in Dinapore. In…
CLARKE, Annie Barber (born Annie Leland Barber). Deerfield MA 9.6.1861 —19.11.1956. U.S. Student of Indology. Daughter of Henry Barber and Elizabeth Pratt. Studied in 1883-86 at Harvard Annex for women (now Radcliffe College), learned Sanskrit under Lanman. A.M. 1891. For five years worked as research assistant of Henry Clarke Warren.…
BADLEY, Brenton Hamline. Monmouth, Indiana 27.4.1849 — Lucknow 20.11.1891. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of Arthur B. and Nancy Jane Houser. Educated at Simpson College and Garrett Biblical Institute. Came to India as Methodist missionary in 1872 and worked there until his death. In 1876 one of the founders and…