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Absalom Andrew Sydenstricker (Chinese: 賽 兆 祥, 1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. The Sydenstricker log house at what later became the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, was Absalom's early childhood home. He was of German descent.
When Rev Absalom "Andrew" Sydenstricker was born on 13 August 1852, in Hillsboro, Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States, his father, Andrew Sydenstricker, was 39 and his mother, Frances Coffman, was 39. He married Caroline Maude Stulting on 8 July 1880, in Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and ...
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- Caroline Maude Stulting
22 de abr. de 2021 · Biography. Absalom Sydenstricker (1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. The Sydenstricker log house at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia was Absalom's early childhood home. He was one of nine children of Andrew and Frances Coffman Sydenstricker of Ronceverte, West ...
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- August 13, 1852
- Caroline Maude (Stulting) Sydenstricker
- August 31, 1931
28 de mar. de 2018 · Absalom Sydenstricker (1852-1931) was a Southern Presbyterian missionary to China. His life story is told by his daughter, Pearl S. Buck, the famous prize-winning author and noted liberal who played a role in J.G. Machen's conflict with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., in The Fighting Angel and The Exile.
Absalom Sydenstricker was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. Background The book Fighting Angel, written as a companion to her memoir of her mother, The Exile, recounts the life and work of Absalom (called "Andrew" in the book).
Excerpt. Family and Intimate relationships. Pearl S. Buck. Pearl's father, Absalom Sydenstricker, was obsessed with the compulsion to save souls, haunted by the disproportion between the numbers of heathen Chinese whom he could convert and the number beyond his reach, always ready... Literary responses.
Fighting Angel. Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul (1936) is a memoir, sometimes called a "creative non-fiction novel," written by Pearl S. Buck about her father, Absalom Sydenstricker (1852–1931) as a companion to her memoir of her mother, The Exile. [1]
