Postcards: Crumplin & Harrison Ltd – Gwelo News Agency
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Gwelo News Agency
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Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS) was the earliest of several missionary societies that are now United Methodist Women. Its origins lie in early missionary efforts of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) in India. As the men worked at establishing churches, “the wives, unnamed and unconsidered in the conference, sought to…
E. T. Brown Type V – Pungwe Gorge – Inyanga – Southern Rhodesia
Mary Elizabeth Thompson 1858-1936 Mary E. McCornack was born March 1858 in Rutland, Illinois, daughter of Alexander McCornack and Margaret Ann Eakin. She studied at Elgin Academy and Oberlin College, Ohio (1883). Ms. McCornack left for Africa in 1889 to serve as a missionary with the American Board of Commissioners in Natal, South Africa. In…
The London and Lancashire Insurance Co. Ltd.
Ruislip Stamp Co. First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia 1937 – Coronation
Maurice Eugene Persons 1912-2004 Rev. Maurice Eugene Persons was born January 14, 1912 in Ruebens, Idaho. He grew up in Spokane, Washington and attended the Chicago Evangelistic Institute (now Vernard College). In 1936, he travel to Africa to serve as Secretary to Bishop John Springer based at Old Umtali, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Springer had…