John Franklin Bruce Carruthers
John Franklin Bruce Carruthers was a reverend who ministered to early aviators. His son, John Franklin Bruce Carruthers presented the Carruthers Aviation Collection to Claremont McKenna College in 1950. Through subsequent gifts and purchases the collection contains about 4,000 volumes. He was the chaplain to the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation.Biography
He was born in Fort Scott, Kansas on August 31, 1889 to James B. Carruthers and Anna Wood. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1912. He received his A.M. from Princeton in 1917 and later graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary. From 1919 to 1924 he was head of Bible Department at Lafayette College. He died on January 13, 1960.Publications
