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Josiah C. McCracken Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 113
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, and collected material document the work of a distinguished medical missionary and educator in China and provide information about graduates of the Medical Department of St. John's University, Shanghai. Josiah Calvin McCracken was a medical missionary and educator in China from 1906 to 1948. Sent out by the Christian Association of the University of Pennsylvania, he headed the medical department at Canton Christian College from 1907 to 1912, and at St. John's...
Dates:
1901-1961
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Lawrence and Eleanor Mead Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 155
Overview:
This collection documents the lives and work of Lawrence and Eleanor Mead. Lawrence Mead served in China under the YMCA from 1913-16, and 1919-1926. He taught English at Yenching University in Beijing from 1928-1939, and was unofficial "official" photographer for the University. Extensive correspondence and memorabilia shed light on the early lives and family interactions of the Meads. The photograph collection documenting Yenching University, and scenes and events in China is noteworthy.
Dates:
1886-1994, bulk 1911-1939
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Collection
Call Number: RG 30
Overview:
The Miscellaneous Personal Papers record group is an open collection consisting of the correspondence, diaries, writings and/or other papers and memorabilia of various individuals. This collection contains papers of individuals who were Yale faculty members, alumni/ae, clergy, ecumenical workers, or missionaries in areas other than China.
Dates:
Various dates according to material
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Missionary Society, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 515
Overview:
The records consist of a constitution, minutes, and membership lists documenting the operations of the Yale Missionary Society.
Dates:
1852-1865
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 126
Overview:
Extensive correspondence, diaries, writings, collected material, and photographs document the medical mission work of Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces as well as Lorenzo Morgan's internment in Shanghai during World War II. The work of mission hospitals, famine relief, plague treatment, mission politics, mission family life, and political events in China are documented. The Morgans were medical missionaries in China, serving under the Presbyterian and Methodist...
Dates:
1862-2001
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Morse Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 358
Overview:
The principal figures in this collection are Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) and his sons Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) and Richard Cary Morse (1795-1868). More than half of the collection is made up of correspondence (1779-1868) among members of the family. Also included are legal and financial papers, sermons by Jedidiah and Richard Cary Morse, travel journals, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and photographs.
Dates:
1779-1868
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Esther Tappert Mortensen Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 21
Overview:
The papers provide documentation of a missionary who served in varied roles in China during the turbulent period of 1929 to 1953. The later letters from Shanghai provide information about the situation in the city after the Communist takeover. Esther Tappert taught English at Ginling College, a mission-sponsored women's college in Nanking, China from 1929 to 1931 and 1933 to1937. From 1937 to 1939 she taught English at Chungking University, a Chinese government university. She returned to the...
Dates:
1903-1972
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Franklin and Bertha Schweinfurth Ohlinger Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 23
Overview:
The collection provides documentation of American Methodist mission work in China, particularly in Fujian Province, and in Korea. The Ohlingers were educational missionaries and pioneers in the field of translation and publication for the church in China. Franklin Ohlinger was born in Ohio in 1845. He served as a missionary under the Methodist Episcopal Church Foreign Mission Board beginning in 1870, based in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. He was a founder of the Union Theological School and the...
Dates:
1867-1973
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Page family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 772
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, family papers, diaries, photographs, and other materials documenting the personal lives and professional careers of Alfred Rider Page, Elizabeth Merwin Roe Page, and their two daughters, Elizabeth Merwin Page Harris and Marjorie Page Schauffler. The Page family papers document Elizabeth Page's work as field secretary for the Women's Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America and has correspondence on such subjects as relations between parents...
Dates:
1828-1948, bulk 1876-1943
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Peter Parker collection
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 6
Overview:
Peter Parker graduated from Yale College in 1831 and from the Medical Institution of Yale College in 1834. Ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1834, he sailed that year to China as the first Protestant medical missionary to that country. The papers relate to Parker's medical practice at the Canton Hospital and elsewhere, his missionary activities including his sermons, and his work for the U.S. Government as a diplomat to China. Most of the papers have been photographed at...
Dates:
1825-1947, bulk 1825-1884
Harman V. S. Peeke Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 185
Overview:
Detailed and substantive quarterly letters and writings document the missionary work of Harman V. S. Peeke and his wife Vesta G. Peeke. The Peekes were missionaries in Japan from 1893 to 1929, serving under the Reformed Church in America.
Dates:
1887-1987
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
William Winston Pettus papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 786
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, writings, and memorabilia of William Winston Pettus, surgeon at the Hsiang-Ya Hospital of the Yale-China Association in Changsha, China. His letters to his parents, beginning in 1928, report on his undergraduate life at Yale and later on medical school. After 1940, when he returned to China, his letters discuss his day-to-day activities as a doctor in wartime at the hospital in Changsha. The writings include diaries and drafts of unpublished articles. Also in the papers...
Dates:
1928-1945
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Lillian Picken Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 159
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, and collected materials document Picken's work and the work of the ABCFM in India beginning in 1928. Lillian Picken was an American missionary in India, serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American Marathi Mission, later known as the United Church Board for World Ministries. She took part in educational, industrial, social, and evangelistic work in the Satara area of western India.
Dates:
1921-1974
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Ida Allien Pyland photograph album and correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MS 1906
Overview:
The collection comprises a photograph album of approximately seventy pages, and approximately fifty pages of correspondence documenting the life and work of Ida Pyland, a Presbyterian missionary living in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Personal correspondence contains observations concerning daily life in Cuba, including social and racial relations among Cubans. Pyland provides observations on the school, her favorite students, transportation...
Dates:
Circa 1908-1924
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Charles W. Ranson Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 96
Overview:
This record group documents Ranson's mission and ecumenical work, particularly providing insight on the development and operations of the International Missionary Council and Theological Education Fund. His work as a theological educator and administrator, and his latter years in a Congregational pastorate are also documented. Ranson served as an Irish Methodist missionary in South India, General Secretary of the International Missionary Council, Director of the Theological Education Fund and...
Dates:
1938-1979
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Jefferson Franklin Ray, Jr. papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1607
Overview:
The Jefferson Franklin Ray, Jr. Papers consist of correspondence, professional papers, personal papers and photographs that document Ray's private life, family and career. The bulk of the collection chronicles Ray's education at Yale University and professional career as a diplomat and administrator in East Asia from 1920 to 1953. There is also documentation on other family members, including Ray's father, Jefferson Franklin Ray, Sr., who served as a missionary in Japan.
Dates:
1837-1990, bulk 1920-1955
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Bernard and Katherine Read Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 157
Overview:
These papers document Bernard Read's work as a scientist in China from 1909 to 1949, as well as the life of his family in China and his internment during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, 1941-1945. Bernard Read was not directly engaged by a missionary agency but spent the first part of his career in China at the Peking Union Medical College, a union venture related to various mission agencies. Read left the Peking Union Medical College due to disagreements with its leaders, and went to work...
Dates:
1902-1964
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
John and Eleanor Reuling Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 120
Overview:
Letters, reports, and writings document American mission work in South Africa from 1927 to the 1960s. John A. Reuling was director of teachers' training at Adams College, Natal, South Africa, serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, from 1927 to 1941. After 1946 he was an administrator for the United Church Board for World Ministries, serving first as regional secretary for Africa and then as general secretary for Mission. Eleanor Swanson Reuling also taught at...
Dates:
1920-1965
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Paul and Charlotte Reynolds Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 193
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, collected material, and photographs document the lives and work of Paul R. and Charlotte Reynolds. The Reynolds were missionaries in north China, serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1921-1936).
Dates:
1909-2004
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Roe family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 774
Overview:
The papers contain family correspondence, missionary correspondence, family papers, diaries, sermons, printed works, photoprints, and other materials documenting the lives and careers of Alfred Cox Roe, Emma Wickham Roe, Mary Abigail Roe, Walter Clark Roe, Mary Wickham Roe, Joseph Wickham Roe, Henry Roe Cloud, and several other Roe relatives. The Roe family papers have extensive material on family life, specifically concerning such subjects as relations between brothers and sisters and parents...
Dates:
1802-1977
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives