Samuel P. Craver

Born: Ap­ril 26, 1847, Frank­lin­ville, New Jer­sey.
Died: Oc­to­ber 31, 1919, Bue­nos Air­es, Ar­gen­ti­na.
Buried: Ce­men­te­rio Bri­tán­i­co, Bue­nos Air­es, Ar­gen­ti­na.

Samuel’s par­ents were James Ab­bott Craver and Han­nah Porch Cra­ver. He and his wife Lau­ra El­len Gass­ner and had six child­ren.

Craver was educated at Iowa College (AB, BD, DD, 1871); Boston Theological College (1875); and Iowa Wesleyan College (1887).

In 1875, Craver be­came a Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal mis­sion­a­ry in Mex­i­co, serv­ing there for 20 years. He was a charter member of the Methodist Mexico Conference, and founder of the Methodist Church at Guanajuato. He al­so worked in Par­a­guay.

In 1895, Cra­ver was trans­ferred to South Amer­i­ca, serv­ing as a pas­tor, sev­er­al times dis­trict su­per­in­ten­dent, and pre­si­dent of the the­o­lo­gi­cal sem­in­a­ry in Bue­nos Air­es (1895-1919).

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