Information Sheet

 

 

R         American Sunday-School Union.

565                  Field workers’ record books, 1917-1930.

                                    Six folders, photocopies.

 

 

 

These are records of field work by F. L. Spindler and J. S. Wallace, missionaries for the American Sunday-School Union, in Christian, Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Texas, Webster, and Wright counties in Missouri.  The records include a daily log of missionary activities, lists of churches, Sunday schools, and superintendents visited, and accounts of periodicals sold.

 

Based in Philadelphia, the American Sunday-School Union was a church-planting, home mission group founded in 1817.  It is still active today as the American Missionary Fellowship.  The Union was active in southern Missouri in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

 

Missionaries F. L. Spindler and J. S. Wallace were based in Ava, the seat of Douglas County.  Spindler’s work is recorded for 1917-1918.  There is a gap in the records from 1918 to 1921, after which the missionary in the field was J. S. Wallace.  Most of the work concerned churches and Sunday schools in Douglas County, but Spindler and Wallace also worked adjacent areas in Chris­tian, Ozark, Howell, Texas, Webster, and Wright counties.  Their daily logs of ac­tivities document the lives of professional missionaries during this period, and are also useful for estab­lishing the dates of organization of churches and Sunday school classes in the various loca­tions.

 

 

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