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House was both head of the school and the youngest man in the mission. The school grew from 15 to 20 students living in a hired house to 75 students, a modest campus, two large school buildings, an industrial department, and the church. In
America his work was recognized, and in 1886 he was given the
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and until the annexation of
Thessaloniki by Greece in 1912 the language of education was Bulgarian. In 1906, at age 61, House and his wife moved into their first home at the new school, located within James Hall, where they were joined by their daughter Ruth. A bronze bust of House still stands in
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in 1902, on 50 acres of barren land near
Thessaloniki. The school provided practical training in field and garden crops, vineyards and orchards, livestock and silkworm production, and in industrial skills such as carpentry, masonry and blacksmithing, to equip graduates to succeed in farming and to
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where their other six children were born. Their work in
Samokov involved teaching at a small, established mission school and building a church, where House preached. At House's urging, the school eventually expanded to include an industrial department.
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His 90th birthday celebration at the school was attended by people of many nationalities including ministers and representatives of several governments. The Greek government awarded him the
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Adeline Beers, daughter of Henry Newell Beers and Adeline Bigelow, on September 17, 1872. That same year they left America to become missionaries in
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Their initial sea voyage took House and his wife to the United
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aid in the economic development of rural
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House died April 19, 1936, in
Thessaloniki and was buried on the grounds of the Farm School. The marker slab over his grave reads,
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Their first child was born in 1873 while they were in Eski Zagra. By 1875 they were transferred by their mission organization to
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and Mrs. Katerina Tsilka instead. Despite this, House was one of the intermediaries chosen to negotiate their eventual release.
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was a missionary known for his work teaching agricultural techniques to
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Bust of John Henry House in front of James Hall at the
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for one year, from 1891 to 1892, to be the editor of the widely circulated Bulgarian newspaper
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in 1868 and received his Bachelor of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in 1871.
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The American Farm School of Thessaloniki, A Family Album
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561:(Greek ed.). Thessaloniki: Κυριακίδη Αφοί.
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