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

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, in

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, in 1950. Through subsequent gifts and purchases the collection contains about 4,000 volumes. He was the

chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...

to the

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, in

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Early life

He was born in

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, on August 31, 1889, to James B. Carruthers and Anna Wood. He received his

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from

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in 1912. He received his A.M. from Princeton in 1917 and later graduated from the

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Career

From 1919 to 1924, he was head of the Bible Department at

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, in

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. In 1933, he was the research assistant of Dr.

Rufus B. von KleinSmid Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid (1875 – July 9, 1964), also spelled Kleinsmidt, was the seventh president of the University of Arizona (1914–1921) and the fifth president of the University of Southern California (1921–1947). Life and career ...

, presidnet of the

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Affiliations

Carruthers was a member of the aviation fraternity,

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and served as its national historian.

Publications

* ''The Small Business Problem as I See It'' (1940) * ''Line and Staff. Camp Hopkins'' (1942) * ''Scrapbook of Early Aeronautica with

William Upcott William Upcott (1779–1845) was an English librarian and antiquary. Life Born in Oxfordshire, he was the illegitimate son of Ozias Humphry by Delly Wickens, daughter of an Oxford shopkeeper, called Upcott from the maiden name of Humphry's mothe ...

'' * ''The Thirteenth Disciple, Founder, Church of All Sinners''

References

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