Garfield Bromley Oxnam, President, papers

Collection

Identifier: PRE-0001-009

Staff Only

Collection Statement

Bishop Oxnam's collection contains clippings, information about buildings, Butler University, faculty committees, discipline, and Kiwanis Club. Also included is a reproduced manuscript from the collections of the manuscript division, library of congress.

Dates

1891 - 1963

Creator

Oxnam, G. Bromley, Bishop (Person)

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Usage Restrictions

Biographical Sketch

Thirteenth President of DePauw University, 1928-1936. Retired Methodist Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam, president of DePauw University from 1928 to 1936 and one of the world's outstanding church leaders, died March 12 in White Plains, N.Y., after and extended illness. He was 71 years of age. A graduate of the University of Southern California (Phi Beta Kappa) and Boston University School of Theology, Bishop Oxnam was ordinated to the Methodist ministry in 1916 and founded the Church of All Nations in Los Angeles. An indefatigable worker, he gave many hours of volunteer service during World War II to government agencies, the military services and other patriotic causes.