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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.
He immigrated to San Francisco, California, United States in 1918 and lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Fort Spring, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States in 1880. He died on 31 August 1931, in Lushan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, at the age of 79, and was buried in Lushan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China.
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 ...
8 de nov. de 2023 · Absalom Sydenstricker (1852–1931) was a Presbyterian missionary from the southern United States. He came to China in 1880, initially carrying out missionary work in northern Jiangsu. Later, he was invited to lecture at Nanking Theological Seminary.
19 de ene. de 2024 · Genealogy for Rev Absalom Sydenstricker (1852 - 1931) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Absalom Sydenstricker is buried at Kuling Foreign Cemetery, LuShan, Jiangxi, China.
Connections. Sort descending. Author name. 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...
