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Name: SYWULKA, Emil J.

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Birth Date: 20.5.1879 Kamienka, Slovakia

Death Date: 7.11.1944 Mwanza, Tanganyika

First Date: 1906

Profession: Missionary

Area: Kijabe, Nassa Tanganyika

Married: At Kijabe 7 Aug 1907 Marie Schneider b. 23 Dec 1873 Hazleton, Pennsylvania, d. 22.6.1971 Clermont, Lake, Florida

Children: Paul Emil (28.5.1909 Kijabe-2000); Edward Frederick (20 June 1911 Nassa, Mwanza-2012); Anna Elizabeth (8 May 1913 Nassa, Mwanza-1946)

Book Reference: SE, Hut, Drumkey, Grasshoppers, EAHB 1907, Red Book 1912, Oyer

General Information:

SE - E. Sywulka - Kijabe - Aug 1907
Grasshoppers - When AIM took over the CMS work at Nassa Charles Hurlburt needed leaders with experience and vision to enter Nassa's maelstrom of malaria. He asked Emil and Marie Sywulka. Emil Sywulka arrived in America at the age of four. His Catholic parents brought him from Austria to the hazards of a new farm in northern Wisconsin. …… Soon after the start of the new century he left his school-teaching and enrolled at Moody Bible Institute. Then, in 1906, he achived his childhood goal by arriving at Kijabe. After a short stay the group asked him to start work high up on the misty ridges of Kikuyu country. A year after his arrival Emil married a missionary nurse, Marie Schneider, and took her to his mountain home. In 1909 they moved to Nassa in German East Africa to work with the Sukuma tribe
Red Book 1912 - Recording Secretary - Africa Inland Mission
Red Book 1912 - Africa Inland Mission - Nassa GEA - Mr Emil Sywulka and his wife
Oyer - Arrived in BEA in Dec 1907 as a missionary with Amos Oyer - Defenseless Mennonite Mission under the sponsorship of the Africa Inland Mission.
Drumkey 1909 - African Inland Mission, 1906 - Mr Emil Sywulka

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