Homer Russell Salisbury
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Homer Russell Salisbury (May 27, 1870 – December 30, 1915) was a Seventh-day Adventist educator and administrator who started the first Adventist school in England. He died at sea aboard the SS Persia on December 30, 1915, when it was sunk by a German submarine during World War I.[1]
Biography
[edit]He was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, on May 27, 1870, to Burleigh Russell Salisbury.[2] He had a brother who migrated to Australia.[3] He married Lenna Elizabeth Whitney.
In 1901 Salisbury founded the first Seventh-day Adventist school in England, Duncombe Hall College, and was the principal there for five years.[2] In 1904 he became a minister. In 1905 Salisbury became president of the South England Conference. He taught at Claremont Union College in South Africa.[2]
Salisbury was made president of the Indian Union Mission in 1913.[2][3]
He boarded the SS Persia in Marseille, headed for India. He died on December 30, 1915, aged 45, when the ship was sunk by a German submarine during World War I.[1][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "The Story of the Week". The Independent. 1916. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Historical Archive Photographs". British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "Hear Salisbury Is Lost. Friends of the Adventist Say He May Have Been a Britisher". The New York Times. 6 January 1916. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
- ^ "Report Another American Lost. Rev. Homer R. Salisbury, Adventist Missionary, Believed to Have Gone Down on Persia". The New York Times. 6 January 1916. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
- 1870 births
- 1916 deaths
- Deaths due to shipwreck at sea
- Seventh-day Adventist administrators
- American Seventh-day Adventists
- American Seventh-day Adventist missionaries
- Seventh-day Adventist missionaries in England
- American casualties of World War I
- British casualties of World War I
- Civilians killed in World War I