Background
Poppen, Henry Albert was born on September 29, 1889 in Prairie View, Kansas, United States. Son of Albert and Henrietta (Walcott) Poppen.
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Henry Albert Poppen
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Studies Northwestern Classical Academy, 1906-1910. Bachelor of Arts, Hope College, 1914, Doctor of Divinity, 1941. Grad study Western Theological Seminary, 1914-1917.
Master of Theology, Princeton, 1925.
Career
Ordained to ministry Reformed Church in American, 1917. Missionary, China, 1918-1951. Co-founder Mission Lugyen, Fukien, China, 1918-1929.
Director International Relief Committee, Kulangsu, 1938-1940. Principal Tung Wen Institute Amoy, 1938-1940. Executive secretary Amoy City Young Men’s Christian Association, 1938-1940.
Changchow Fukien China resident board advisory Talmage College, 1946-1951. Professor New Testament South Fukien Theological Seminary, 1946-1951. Member Kulangsu Municipal Council International Settlement, Amoy.
Interned by Japanese, 1941-1943. Repatriated United States Ship Gripsholm, 1943. Deported from China by order of People’s Court, March 1951.
Pioneer in newspaper Evangelism, Amoy, 1933-1940. Director S. Fukien Religious Tract and Bible Society, 1934-1940. President Synod of Reformed Church in American, 1952-1953.
Director South Fukien Religious Tract Society (Kulangsu, Amoy), 1933-1940. Republican Kulangsu Municipal Council, drawing up Kulangsu Agreement with Imperial Japanese Government representatives to guaranty International Status of Interant. Settlement during Sino-Japanese war, May 1940.
Trustee Fukien Christian U., Fuchow, China, Hope Hospital, Kulangsu, Changchow Union Hospital, 1946-1951. Translator: (into Chinese) Facts and Mysteries of the Christian Faith (Albertus Pieters). Address: New York, New York.
Membership
Member Kulangsu Municipal Council International Settlement, Amoy.
Connections
Married Dorothy Catharine Trompen, June 18, 1918. Children: Kenneth John, Anna Ruth, Albert Walcott.
