Word: thoburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society sent to India one of the most famed missionaries of all time, Isabella Thoburn. For her it named Asia's first college for women-in Lucknow, India. It dispatched to the East the first U. S. woman doctor, Clara Swain. Today the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, spending some $1,500,000 a year on 5,500 missionaries, Bible women and other workers in 17 lands, is the largest U. S. organization of its kind. Last week, not without some pangs and misgivings, it faced the prospect of losing its identity-in the impending merger...
...went to India and built up social and evangelistic organizations which lasted because their roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years a surgeon, oculist, translator, healer and teacher throughout the Orient. Methodist Bishop James Mills Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with a club guarded against intruders. Long afraid of street cars, she died of cholera...
Died, Louis K. Clothier. 25, nephew of Department Store Owner Isaac Hallowell Clothier (Strawbridge & Clothier); and Lieut. C. Thoburn ("Toby") Maxwell of the Pennsylvania National Guard, his Swarthmore classmate (1928) and flying instructor; in an airplane accident in which Instructee Clothier failed by two feet to clear the edge of a quarry near Norristown...