John Franklin Bruce Carruthers (August 31, 1889 – January 13, 1960) was a reverend who ministered to early aviators.
His son, John Franklin Bruce Carruthers, presented the Carruthers Aviation Collection to Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California, in 1950. Through subsequent gifts and purchases the collection contains about 4,000 volumes. [1]
He was the chaplain to the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, in Los Angeles, California.
Early life
He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on August 31, 1889, to James B. Carruthers and Anna Wood. [2] [3]
He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1912. [4] He received his A.M. from Princeton in 1917 and later graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary.
Career
From 1919 to 1924, he was head of the Bible Department at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania. [2] [5] In 1933, he was the research assistant of Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, presidnet of the University of Southern California. [6]
Affiliations
Carruthers was a member of the aviation fraternity, Alpha Eta Rho and served as its national historian. [6]
Publications
- The Small Business Problem as I See It (1940)
- Line and Staff. Camp Hopkins (1942)
- Scrapbook of Early Aeronautica with William Upcott
- The Thirteenth Disciple, Founder, Church of All Sinners
References
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"Carruthers Memorial Aviation Collection".
Claremont McKenna College. Retrieved October 31, 2009.
The Carruthers Aviation Collection on the history of aviation was presented to Claremont McKenna College in 1950 by the Rev. and Mrs. John F. B. Carruthers. Subsequent gifts and purchases have increased the collection to its present size of approximately 4,000 volumes. The strong emphasis on World War I aeronautical history is represented by Italian, French, British and American publications.
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b Who Was Who in America – Volume 3, 1951–1960.
Marquis Who's Who. 1951–1960.
Son of James B. and Anna (Wood) C.; A.B., Princeton, 1912, A.M., 1917; grad. Princeton Theol. Sem., 1917; D.D., Lafayette Coll., Easton, Pa., 1924; post grad. study U. of Geneva (Switzerland), Boston U., U. of So. Cal., Princeton, Harvard, U. of Pa.; married Mabel Grandin, July 9, 1919; children—John, Jane, Priscilla, Polly. Ordained to ministry of Presbyterian Ch., 1918;
- ^ John Franklin Bruce Carruthers in the World War I draft registration of June 5, 1917.
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Catalogue.
Princeton University. 1917. p.
451.
John Franklin Bruce Carruthers, A.B., Princeton University, 1912.
- ^ "Dr. Carruthers, Air History Specialist, Dies". Los Angeles Times. January 14, 1960.
- ^ a b "Anniversary of First Balloon Flight Feted". The Los Angeles Times. November 22, 1933. p. 7. Retrieved June 23, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1889 births
- 1960 deaths
- 20th-century Presbyterian ministers
- 20th-century American academics
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American Presbyterian ministers
- American aviation writers
- American chaplains
- American expatriates in Switzerland
- American male non-fiction writers
- American Presbyterian ministers
- American religious writers
- Burials at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
- Lafayette College faculty
- People from Fort Scott, Kansas
- Princeton Theological Seminary alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Religious leaders from California
- Religious leaders from Kansas
- Religious leaders from Pennsylvania
- University of Geneva alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- University of Southern California alumni
- Writers from Kansas
- Writers from Los Angeles
- Writers from Pennsylvania