Collection SC114 [April 10, 2007]
Simpson, William Ekvall; 1901-1932
Ephemera; 1998
1 folder
Restrictions:
None
Full name |
William Ekvall Simpson |
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Birth |
October 19, 1901 in Old Orchard, Main, USA |
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Death |
June 20, 1932, murdered by army deserters at Shih Keo Waunao in Kansu Province, China |
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Family |
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Parents |
William Wallace and Alma Maria Otilia (Ekvall) Simpson, missionaries to China, first with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) and then with the Assemblies of God (AOG) |
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Siblings |
Margaret Helene (Simpson) Jamieson and Louise Matina (Simpson) Chenoweth |
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Marital Status |
Single |
Conversion |
At the age of 10 |
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Ordination |
Received formal appointment as an AOG missionary on December 4, 1923, although he had been one informally since 1919 |
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Education |
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Home schooled until the age of 13 |
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1915?-? |
Attended an academy in Tennessee while his family was back in the United States on furlough |
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?-1917 |
Attended and graduated from Bethel Bible Training School in Newark, New Jersey, USA. His father was principal of the school |
Career |
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1918-1932 |
Traveled among Tibetan nomadic herdsman in the general area of Labrang, Tibet, and sharing the Gospel with them. He pioneered many uncharted paths in the area and at the time of his death had trained and supported eight Chinese evangelists who were also working in the area |
Date
Range: The booklet was created by Ray Smith in 1998. It contains photocopies
of photographs and documents, mainly from the mid-1930s.
Volume:
1 folder
Geographic
coverage: The Chinese-Tibetan border in the area of Labrang
Type
of documents: Narrative of Simpson’s life, death and the investigation
that followed, photocopies of letters, photos, articles and miscellaneous documents
Correspondents:
William Wallace Simpson, Shao Li-Tse, Nelson Trusler Johnson, Wang Chao-ming,
Dimitri Horvath
Subjects:
Protestant missions in the early 20th century on the Chinese-Tibet
border; the murder of William E. Simpson and Lenoid Horvath
Notes:
This collection consists entirely a booklet of photocopies assembled by Ray
Smith and a photocopy of a manuscript copied from a typed manuscript said to
be by William Wallace Simpson. The booklet contains a narrative by Smith about
the life and death of William E. Wallace and copies of many documents, articles
and excerpts from books. The documents are mainly concerned with the investigation
into the death of the two men, while the articles and excerpts also deal to
some extent with Simpson’s work as an evangelist. The W.W. Simpson manuscript
consists of a narrative about his son’s life and death, and photocopies
of several letters by William E. Simpson from the later 1920s and early 1930s.
Provenance
The materials in this collection
were given to the Archives of the Billy Graham Center by Ray Smith in 1998 and
2001.
Accession: 98-45, 00-01
April 10,
2007
Robert Shuster