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Edgar Sydenstricker (15 July 1881 – 19 March 1936) was an American economist and statistician. Sydenstricker was born on 15 July 1881 in Shanghai to missionaries Caroline Maude (Stulting) (1857–1921) and Absalom Sydenstricker. His parents returned to their home state of West Virginia for the birth of his younger sister Pearl S. Buck ...
The original log section is a museum for Sydenstricker items and the period 1834–1880. The house was built in 1834 by Andrew Sydenstricker, who married Frances Coffman on January 16, 1834, and became the father of nine children, including Absalom. Five of Andrew's sons became ministers, four Presbyterian and one Methodist.
Sydenstricker School, also known as Pohick School #8 and Upper Pohick Community League Hall (since 1948), is a historic one-room school located at Springfield, Fairfax County, Virginia. It was built in 1928, and is a one-story, front-gabled structure, covered in weatherboard, painted red with white trim, and topped with a metal roof.
Lucy Alma Willis Sydenstricker (April 21, 1866 – November 26, 1960) was an American college professor and clubwoman. She taught religion classes at Agnes Scott College from 1917 to 1943, and was active in the Presbyterian Church in the United States .
John Lossing Buck (27 November 1890 – 27 September 1975, [1] [2] adopted the Chinese name 卜凱) was an American agricultural economist [3] specializing in the rural economy of China.
Absalom Andrew Sydenstricker (Chinese: 賽 兆 祥, 1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Sydenstricker log house at what later became the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia , was Absalom's early childhood home.
The Pearl Buck house is open to the public for daily tours seven days a week. Pearl S. Buck International currently offers two house tours to visitors: Pearl S. Buck: Taking Action, [5] [6] which focuses on Ms. Buck's activism and human rights advocacy, and the more traditional biographical and historic Pearl S. Buck: Life and Legacy Tour.
Sydenstricker Road Gambrill Road Gambrill Court Dead End Fauquier [29] 1.30 2.09 SR 806 (Elk Run Road) Laws Ford Road Dead End Floyd [30] 1.54 2.48 Blue Ridge Parkway/SR 681: Franklin Pike Franklin County Line: Fluvanna [31] 11.38 18.31 Dead End Shores Road Cunningham Road Haden Martin Road US 15 (James Madison Highway)