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Name
  
John Bruce

Died
  
January 13, 1960

Education
  
Princeton University


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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 1950. Through subsequent gifts and purchases the collection contains about 4,000 volumes. He was the chaplain to the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation.

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Biography

He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas on August 31, 1889 to James B. Carruthers and Anna Wood. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1912. He received his A.M. from Princeton in 1917 and later graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary. From 1919 to 1924 he was head of Bible Department at Lafayette College. He died on January 13, 1960.

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

    John Franklin Bruce Carruthers Wikipedia