Tag: messiah college
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Want to Start Researching Your Own Family’s History? Here are Some Tips
A Piece of the Flowers’ Family Tree I get this question a lot, so hopefully I can help someone out. Before I share some tips, let me give you a bit of my genealogical research background. I have my B.A. in history and graduated last May. I have under my belt a semester of graduate…
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The Inevitable: Cemetery Hunting
Now, I am at a standstill in my research. Next year will mark the centennial of Rachel Flowers’ enrollment at Messiah Missionary School and Training Home, known today as Messiah College, my alma mater. If you are new to my blog, welcome! To give you a brief background about Rachel, please read the bio marquee…
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Reintroducing the Flowers Family
If you are new to this blog, you might be wondering, Who are the Flowers?. Since 2012, I have been conducting research on this family’s history beginning with Rachel Helen Flowers, the first African American student to attend my alma mater. Uncovering her biography led to an even greater story of her family’s vast and…
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October: Homecoming, Conferences, and Papers
As October draws to an end, I made a promise to myself that my last blog post would not be from September and I will remain true to this promise. October has been a month full of blessings. So here is a post about my latest adventures. Homecoming No one expected me back for Homecoming. I jokingly told…
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The Biography of Herant Athanasian
Jacob Ekmekjian is pictured in the back row, first person on the left. Hrant is pictured in the front row sitting, second individual to the left. This picture is undated. Herant was born in Izmit, Turkey and was about 23-24 years old when he first arrived in America. He seemed to enjoy his time at…
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Agop Hartune Ekmekjian
Here, Jacob Ekmekjian (center) with Messiah Bible School and Missionary Training Home Class of 1916 As oppose to the biographies you will read on Meshach and Samuel Krikorian, the biographies of Jacob E. and Hrant A. are significantly shorter. No books were written highlighting their lives and little is known about their time before and…
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His Story Continues: Meshach Krikorian (Part II)
At the opening of the winter term of 1912, through the kindness and instrumentality of Bishop S.R. Smith, then the president of the Messiah Bible School and Missionary Training Home, now a departed saint in glory, myself, and two other Armenian young men were admitted to the school, upon a previous arrangement made by Miss.…
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The Woman Who Made It All Possible: Ms. Rebecca Krikorian
My previous post highlighted a new series documenting the lives of the first international students to attend Messiah College and the woman who made it all possible, Miss. Rebecca Krikorian. This is the beginning of her legacy. Photo from the Messiah College Archives: Rebecca Krikorian (sitting) is pictured along with Meshach K. (to her right),…
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The Beginning: The First International Students of Messiah College
One of the many perks of being overworked in college is learning how to say no, even when it comes to research. While completing the Flowers family history, I “met” Reverend Meshach Krikorian. Despite all of the great details I have found regarding Meshach’s life, I did not have the time to pursue his story, which…
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Short Introduction
To do list: Apply to graduate school Choose a date to take the GRE Study for the GRE Figure out how to pay for these outrageous application fees Call my momma…I have not talk to her in more than three weeks. I wish I could say I was relaxing my senior year, you know taking…
Diary of a Historian 