Postcards: Universities’ Mission to Central Africa – Pictorial Post Card II
Universities’ Mission to Central Africa
Pictorial Post Card II
| No.s | Description | Earliest Postmark Date |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | S.S. Chauncy Maples |
Old Umtali Mission Type III FB
Rhodesia Mission Press Old Umtali Mission – Type II
I. Conforzi (Tea & Tobacco) Ltd. Cholo Ignaco Conforzi (b.1885) was an Italian immigrant that brought with him a diploma of agricultural science to Nyasaland in 1907 as a manager with the Blantyre and East Africa Company. In 1909 he began his own tobacco plantation in the Cholo district. By the end of WWI, he…
Reformed Baptist Church The Reformed Baptist Alliance of Canada (Reformed Baptist Church) was founded in 1888 by a group of Free Christian Baptists following the expulsion of five ministers for refusing to renounce strict adherence to their views on “scriptural holiness.” As part of the broader “holiness movement,” the Reformed Baptist believed in the…
Universities’ Mission to Central Africa Ndola FB
Thomas King 1870-1947 Thomas King was born in Craigmore, Londonderry County, Ireland, August 1870. He immigrated to the United States in 1893 at age 23. King worked his way through Oberlin Academy, Oberlin College and the Theological Seminary, graduating 1900. In May 1905, he was ordained at the Oberlin First Congregational Church. A month…