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30/129 - Susan Wealthy Orvis (1873-1941) |
| Biography |
| Susan
Wealthy Orvis was born in Atlanta, Illinois on 20 December 1873,
the daughter of Clarkson Finney and Mary Ellen (Phelps) Orvis.
She graduated with the Ph.B. from Grinnell College in 1900 and
received the M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1915. She spent
the year 1923-24 at the Oberlin College Graduate School of Theology,
returning during the years 1934-35 and 1937-39 to complete work
for the B.D. degree, which she received in 1939. After graduating
from Grinnell College, Miss Orvis taught high school for two years
in Charleston, Illinois. From 1902 to 1933, she was missionary
in Turkey under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions. She taught in China and Japan from 1917 to
1919 and was engaged in relief operations in Baku, Russia during
the Bolshevik revolution (1917-18). After 1932, Orvis remained
in the United States on furlough. She taught Christian missions
at the Schauffler School (later the Schauffler College of Religious
and Social Work) in Cleveland from 1935 to 1937. She died of a
cerebral hemorrhage on 10 January 1941 in Earlville, Iowa, at her
sister's home. She was 67 years old. |
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