Harold H. Buls Papers

Buls was born in Garland, Nebraska, on 4 January 1920. He attended Saint John College, Winfield, Kansas, and graduated from Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, in 1946. He served as a missionary in Nigeria from 1946 to 1949 and then in the Alabama Field for the Missionary Board of the Lutheran Synodical Conference, working alongside Rosa Parks during the birth of the Civil Rights movement in Selma. He served on the faculty of Alabama Lutheran Academy and College, Selma; Immanuel Lutheran College, Greensboro, North Carolina; Saint John College, Winfield; and Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. He retired in 1986 but continued teaching, including serving as a lecturer in Russia and Kazakhstan. He died in September 1997.