Charles Telford Erickson
American theologian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Telford Erickson, b. 1867 Galesburg, Illinois, d. 1966 California, was an American pastor and theologian who also worked in Albania, where he founded the first vocational school for farmers. Life and career Ericksons parents were from Sweden. He made a B.A. in 1891 and an M.A. in 1893 at DePauw University and, in 1895, an S.T.B. at Boston University. He began to work as a pastor in Rangoon, Burma in 1897, but he had to return to America because of illness of his wife. He then served as pastor in Ohio, then went to complete his studies at Yale University where he received a Master's degree in 1902. After his studies he first worked as pastor of a congregation in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1908 he became director of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Elbasan, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. He stayed 12 years in office and then worked another 14 years independently in the now independent state of Albania. 1914 he got a D.D. from the Drury University. During the First World War, he worked as official of the Red Cross in Italy. After the war, he was chosen an honorary delegate to the Paris Peace Conference by Vatra, the Pan-Albanian Federation of America and the provisional government of Albania. He acted as a special commissioner for Albania to the United States in 1920-1921 and, from 1922 to 1923, he assisted the diplomatic staff at the American Embassy in Tirana. He proposed to Fan Noli and Ahmet Zogu the establishment of vocational schools for boys and girls, especially for farming. Herbert Hoover donated $10.000 for the building of the schools. In 1925, the schools were opened under the name "Albanian-American Schools of Agriculture" in Golem, Kavajë. Erickson worked there as school principal until 1937. In 1930 the Near East Foundation took over responsibility for the administration. In 1939, when Italy occupied Albania, it relinquished the property of the schools. After the communist takeover in 1945, the schools continued to exist under the name Ylli i kuq , in 2012 the whole school was named after its founder Shkolla e mesme profesionale Charles Telford Erickson .
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