CHINA THROUGH WESTERN EYES
Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Missionaries & Diplomats, 1792-1942

Part 5: Manuscript Diaries and Papers from the China Records Project at Yale Divinity Library

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RG08, Boxes Robert Bartlett ABCFM, Yenching University, 243 & 273 1924-27. Chinese Revolutionaries; Jimmy Yen - Humanitarian of the Century. Robert M Bartlett, ABCFM Yenching University (1924-1927).
Extent: 2 manuscript volumes.
Unpublished ms entitled “Chinese Revolutionaries”, 352pp typescript;
Unpublished ms entitled “Jimmy Yen – Humanitarian of the Century”, 551pp typescript.
Robert M Barlett comes from a long line of educators, writers and ministers. After graduation from Oberlin College and Yale Divinity School, he and his wife, Sue, joined the faculty of Yenching University, Peking. He made a study of the Chinese Revolution, interviewing intellectual and political leaders and writing about them. He taught courses in the Modern Western Novel, the Modern Western Drama and Russian Literature.
He is the author of 20 books, a number of them biographical studies of humanitarians like Albert Schweitzer, Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig, Albert Einstein, Toyohiko Kagawa, James Yen, Igor Sikorsky, Raphael Lemkin, M L King, Ralph Bunche, Vinoba Bhave, Alan Paton, Taha Hussem, Abbe Pierre, Dominique Pire, etc. He contributed poetry and essays to the Christian Science Monitor and articles to leading magazines.
He served on the faculties of Boston University, Springfield College and Michigan State University and as minister of the historic Congregational churches in Longmeadow and Shrewsbury, Mass. He has lectured throughout the USA, England and Holland on the Pilgrims and is author of The Pilgrim Way and The Faith of the Pilgrims.
He has travelled widely in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the USSR and Latin America. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Mayflower Society, fellow of the Pilgrim Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Since 1935 the Bartletts have lived in Plymouth in the house built by Pilgrim Robert Bartlett in 1660. They are expert gardeners, outdoor people and nature lovers. Dr Bartlett has written many enjoyable articles on nature and New England life. He has given many television programmes on the history of the Pilgrims.
CONTENTS of ms entitled “Chinese Revolutionaries”:
SUN YAT SEN
LIANG CHI Chao
LI TA CHAO
CHEN TU HIS
HU SHIH
LU HSUN
Yng Ch James Yen
KIO MO JO
WU SHIH HUI
CHANG PO LING
LIANG SHU MING
TING LING
CHIA TSESUUNGH’EN
CHIANG KAI SHEK
LIU SHAO CHI’I
LIN PIAO
CHAOU EN LAI
MAO TSE TUNG
PREFACE to ms entitled “Jimmy Yen – Humanitarian of the Century”:

To the Reader of This Manuscript:
In October, 1983, the 90th birthday of Jimmie Yen was celebrated at the United Nations. Shortly afterward he asked me to write the story of his life. We spent two months together in Naples, Florida where he dictated his complicated history to me. During 1984 and 1985 I worked on the manuscript. He promised to answer my questions and supply facts from his office in New York and from his International Institute of Rural Reconstruction in Cavite in the Philippines, but his memory was somewhat confused and communication grew difficult.

It was arranged for him to visit mainland China where his remarkable program had endeavoured to create an alternative to Communism. He was flanked by a few party leaders but not invited to re-establish his program. Dr Yen died from pneumonia January 17, 1990 in New York. His ashes were carried to the Philippines and buried beside his wife in Cavite at the Yen Memorial. His gifted vice president Ping Sheng Yen endeavoured to help me with the manuscript. During the period that Jimmie was hoping to return to the mainland, he began to feel that his candid criticism of Communism would cause trouble for his children in Beijing and stated that it might be an inopportune time to publish the book.

An American publisher agreed to publish the book, providing Dr Yen’s movement would help undertake the cost. I explained to Jimmie that idealistic books often had to be given financial help. He said he expected that and he was an expert at fund raising. Bt due to a sudden decline in financial support, he had to say no.
The book never went to print. A copy has been sent to the Library of Yale Divinity School and the Library of Columbia University. I did not enclose in the manuscript the revisions suggested by Ping Yen which softened and modified Jimmie’s condemnation of Communism and the limitations and evils of Communism, leaving it as it was dictated to me by him.

Sincerely yours,

Robert M Bartlett
October 10, 1992

CHRONOLOGICAL CHART supplied with to ms entitled
“Jimmy Yen – Humanitarian of the Century”:
Oct 30, 1893: Jimmy Yen born, Pa Chung, Szechwan.
1903: Jimmy enters the School of Western Learning, Pao Ning, Szechwan.
1907: Jimmy is a student at the American Methodist High School in Chengtu, Szechwan.
1911: Jimmy cuts off his queue in keeping with the Revolution.
1912: Jimmy a youthful teacher and student worker in Chengtu.
1913-14: Jimmy a student in Hong Kong University.
1915-18: Student at Yale University, wins BA, June 1918.
1918-19: Serves the Allied Cause, World War I, working with Chinese coolies in France.
1919-20: Graduate student, Princeton University, wins MA degree.
1921: Return to China, marries Alice Huel in Shangai.
1921-23: Launches spectacular literacy campaigns in Changsha, Chefoo, Nanking, Wuhan and Peking.
1923: Chinese Mass Education formed with Madam Hsiung as chairman and Jimmy as president.
1924: Chinese Mass Education Movement wins national attention.
1925: Jimmy reports on his movement at the Institute of Pacific Relations in Hawaii. Chinese there contribute in the first fund drive.
1926-27: Jimmy develops the idea of a human laboratory in Ting Hsien with Drs Fung and Fugh as his research team.
1928: Jimmy’s tenth reunion at Yale. Receives an honorary MA degree. Major fund drive started by friends. Bring in $500,000 US dollars to underwrite his Ting Hsien Experiment.
1928-36: Ting Hsien takes root and flourishes as he gathers distinguished scholars about him who live with the peasants as their teachers.
1936: Japanese military push south after seizing Manchuria. The Experiment moves to Heng Shan in Hunan in Central China.
1937-45: The Japanese wage a savage war, seizing the seacoast and major cities. Jimmy carries on a mass education movement to prepare 50 million in Hunan to resist Japanese invasion, using his second human laboratory as a base.
1940: Under Japanese advances, he moves to his third human laboratory at Hsieh Ma Chang in Szechwan with a human laboratory at Bishan.
1940: He organises the first Rural Reconstruction College in China to prepare leaders to rebuild after the war.
1941: USA enters the war against Japan as an ally of China.
1943: Jimmy chosen as one of the 10 great contemporary revolutionists of the world.
1942-45: Jimmy leads rural reconstruction movements instruction movements in Szechwan and Hunan to help people withstand Japanese invasion.
1946: Jimmy urges Chiang Kai-shek to back his Mass Education Program on a national basis and help rebuild the war-ravaged country, but Chiang refuses.
1947: Jimmy goes to America and persuades the US Congress to grant $27,500,000 for rural reconstruction under the Joint Commission for Rural Reconstruction.
1947-49: Jimmy and the Commission carry on a massive reconstruction program in Hunan, Fukien, Jiangsi and Szechwan to build morale of the people and check the spread of Communism.
Oct, 1949: Mao and the People’s Army seize control of China. Jimmy and his associated flee to Taiwan, where a continuation of JCRR is set up. Jimmy leaves Taiwan to find a new base for his program.
1952: He organises the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement.
1952-60: The PRRM achieves spectacular results based on Jimmy’s China successes. Third World countries ask to share in the program.
1960: International institute for Rural Reconstruction is founded to expand the program to the Third World.
1960: Jimmy receives the Raymon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding
1962: The IIRR dedicated in Silang, Cavite, Philipines.
1962: Colombia (Central America) Rural Reconstruction Movement founded.
1964: Guatemala Rural Reconstruction Movement founded.
1967: Jimmy receives the award of the Order of the Golden Heart in the Philippines.
1966-76: The Cultural Revolution to the death of Mao Tse-Tung. Hardships suffered by Jimmy’s relatives and friends in China.
1972: Ghana Rural Reconstruction Movement founded.
1974: Thailand Rural Reconstruction Movement founded.
1980: Indian Rural Reconstruction Movement founded.
from 1962: The IIRR becomes a centre for training rural workers from many countries at The Institute in Silang, Cavite, Philippines.
1980: Death of Jimmy’s wife, Alice Huel Yen.
Oct 30, 1983: Jimmy’s 90th birthday celebrated at the United Nations with friends from around the globe.
1983: Jimmy receives the Eisenhower medallion of the People to People foundation.
1985: Jimmy is invited by officials of the government to return to China, after 36 years as an exile, to make an autumn visit to peasant projects and be recognised for his services to his country.

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RG108, Box 1 Willard and ABCFM, Foochow, Fukien. Ellen Beard Correspondence regarding missions, 1900-1938.
Willard Livingstone Beard was a missionary serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Fukien Province, China, from 1894 to 1941. He was born in Shelton, Connecticut in 1865. Following his marriage to Ellen Kinney in 1894, he served the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ Foochow mission for over forty years. During the period 1905-1910, Beard was released by the ABCFM to set up and head a branch of the YMCA in Fukien province. Beard died in1945.
Extent: 4 archival boxes; total linear footage 3’
The papers are arranged in five series:
I. Correspondence, 190-1938, nd
II. Diaries and Journals, 1895-1907
III. Writings, 1915-1941, nd
IV. Collected Material, 1896-1947, nd
V Personal Items and Memorabilia
The papers provide valuable early documentation of ABCFM work in the Foochow area. They include not only Beard’s personal correspondence and diaries, but also collected report and printed material documenting mission work in Fukien province.
Family correspondence in Series I is arranged in chronological order, with forty-nine letters of Beard, one from Ellen Kinney Beard and two from Phebe Kinney Beard. The letters are primarily written from Foochow or Kuliang to family members in the US. The letters give substantial accounts of Beard’s daily work and touch on political events in China.
The Diaries and Journals of Series II include three daily diaries of the Imperial English and Chinese Diary format, which provide regular accounts of Beard’s activities and acquaintances, and two accounts of trips taken by Beard. A daily account of a trip from Foochow to Shaowu and back (1906 Nov – 1907 Jan) provides a valuable detailed account of typical missionary work.
Series I: Correspondence
Box Folder Contents Date
Family Correspondence
1 1 1900-1916
1 2 1917-1918
1 3 1921-1924
1 4 1925-1926
1 5 1928-1929
1 6 1930
1 7 1932-1933
General
1 8 Incl from Edward H Smith, W H Topping; to Wm Strong, 1916-1938 & A R Kepler in response to questions on Church in China n.d.

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RG108, Box 1 Willard and Diaries, 1895-1897, 1903, 1906-07. Ellen Beard Series II: Diaries and Journals
Box Folder Contents Date
1 9 Imperial English and Chinese Diary format 1895
1 10 Imperial English and Chinese Diary format 1896
1 11 Imperial English and Chinese Diary format 1897
1 12 Account of voyage from Foochow to Connecticut, via Europe 1903
12 Account of trip from Foochow to Shaowu and back 1906-1907
Biographical documentation
1 14 Including obituary, information provided by daughter (Geraldine Beard); Commissionary Service for Phebe Beard
1 15 Framed tribute to WLB

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RG108, Box 2 Willard and Writings, 1915-1941, including Ellen Beard reflections on 38 years in China and an account of the invasion of Foochow; Collected Material including: Reports of Foochow Mission, 1896, 1898-1902; Minutes of Foochow Mission, 1914; Reports of Ing Hok Station, 1897, 1899, 1901; Reports of Work for Women and Children, 1897, 1899, 1901; Reports of hospitals in Foochow; 1897-1913; Loose Leaves from Missionary Diaries, 1917-1920; and the Foochow Messenger, 1904-1920.
Series III: Writings
Box Folder Contents Date Of Ellen Kinney Beard
2 17 Account of invasion of Foochow 1941 Apr 20(see the excerpt that follows on page 68)
Of William L Beard
2 18 Account of dispute between two villages near Foochow 1915
2 18 Annual Report of WLBB 1925
2 18 A Missionary’s Thoughts after Thirty-Eight Years in China (from Chinese Recorder) 1933
2 18 Some Thoughts on Re-thinking Missions 1933
2 18 Dr E Stanley Jones in Foochow n.d.
Series IV: Collected Materials
Box Folder Contents Date
Re: ABCFM work in Fukien
2 19 Reports of Foochow Mission 1896, 1898-1902
Series IV: Collected Materials (continued)
Box Folder Contents Date
2 19 Minutes of Foochow Mission 1914
2 20 Reports of Ing Hok Station 1897, 1899,
1901
2 21 Reports of Work for Women and Children 1897, 1899, 1901
2 22 Reports of Ponasang Hospital, Foochow 1897, 1902,
1903, 1908
2 22 Report of Foochow Missionary Hospital 1913
2 23 “Loose Leaves from Missionaries’ Diaries”, Nos 1, 2, 4-6 1917-1920
24 Foochow Messenger 1904-1920

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RG108, Willard and Collected Material including: Boxes 2-3 Ellen Beard Foochow Messenger, 1921-1940; Booklets; Photographs; Personal items and Memorabilia.
Series IV: Collected Materials (continued)
Box Folder Contents Date
2 24 Foochow Messenger 1921-1940
2 25 Primers for Romanized Chinese, by Hannah C Woodhall 1908, n.d.
2 26 Fukien Mission souvenir booklet 1913
26 Fukien Mission Christmas greeting booklet with info re missionaries n.d.
Series V: Personal Items and Memorabilia
Box Folder Contents Date
Photographs
3 27-29 Scenes and people from Foochow and Ing Tai area n.d.
3 30 Kuliang mountain resort (one photo) n.d.
3 31-33 Group and individual portraits, including missionary personnel and native Chines (see also: Oversize)
3 36 School-related, including Ponasang Girls’ School 1915, n.d.
3 34 Album re North China American School n.d.
3 35 Related to Foochow College (see also: Oversize) n.d.

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RG108, Box 4 Willard and Collected Material including: Booklets; Ellen Beard Letters to missionaries; and materials on the North China American School.
4 37 “The Foochow Mission 1847-1895”, by C C Baldwin 1896
37 “Christian Youth in Modern China – Foochow” 1932
4 37 “Comments on ‘Re-Thinking Missions’ from Fukien, China” 1933
4 37 “Glimpses of the American Board at Work in Fukien, China” n.d.
4 37 “Introducing the American Board of Missionaries of Fukien, China n.d.
4 37 “Youth” n.d.
4 37 Letter from Wen Shan Girls School 1923
4 38 Questionnaire from Interchurch World Movement of North America 1923
Re ABCFM work in China
4 39 Letter to missionaries of ABCFM in China 1927
4 39 “The American Board Missions in China” 1928
4 39 Circular letter from H Matthews, ABCFM Secretary for China 1948
Re other organizations
4 40, 41 North China American School: The NCI 1919, 1920, 1922, 1924
4 40 North China American School: Pagoda 1939
4 40 North China American School: bulletin 1926
4 42 Foochow College 1910-1926
4 43 Oberlin-Shansi Association 1933-1938
Miscellaneous printed and typescript material
4 44 Missionary circular letters 1913-1947
4 45 American Fleet Souvenir, Amoy 1908
4 46 Journal of Educational Association of Fukien Province 1909
4 45 “The Canton Government” by W W Willoughby 1922
4 45 Minutes of the First Annual Meeting of the Mid-Fukien
Divisional Council, Church of Christ in China 1927
4 45 Report of Foochow Youth and Religion Movement Campaign 1935
4 45 Letter from Peking Government University – The Anti- Religion Union n.d.
4 46 Kuliang Register (one issue) 1927
1 13 Chinese language material including guide and ticket to bazaar in aid of the Kangsu and Anhi Famine Relief Fund 1915
Excerpt from an “Account of invasion of Foochow”, 20 Apr 1941, by Ellen Kinney Beard (Box 2, folder 17)
At least four bombers have just gone over my head but I couldn’t see them and here go three more down river that I can see. You wonder at my heading. Well, yesterday at 2.45 pm the consul telephoned Mr McClure that all women who had not a job that compelled them to stay had better go over to South Side, for the night, at least, for it is reported on good authority that troops have landed at Lieng Cong and Diong Loh and an an invasion of Foochow is expected soon, perhaps tonight. He wanted a return call from Mr McC in half an hour telling him how many and who would come over. Mr McC called the Compound all together at Miss Houston’s, explained the situation and asked how many would go. Nobody volunteered so he called the rolls as it were by saying, “Well, we’ll begin with the Smiths’ now they can go and Mrs Beard can go and Miss Wiley….” Then he asked if we would go and we all said we would, it being the Consul’s wish and advice. Then he asked the rest separately and they all said they would stay as they were all doctors and nurses of the Hospital and couldn’t leave their patients – Dyer, Atwood, Jacobs, Saubli, Wilcox, the Jewish doctor and masseur. Miss Houston also said she would stay. McC responded, “Independent woman! The next time I marry I’m going to marry a man!”
Well, I had much to do to prepare to leave for an indefinite period (another single plane is just going over. They seem to be rumbling around in the distance much of the time). One thing – I had all my finished linen spread out on our two long tables in the process of pricing them. I wanted to take it all with me but finally could not conveniently do it, so gathered it all up and left it on the shelves of our closet. I hope it will not be looted.

I left the hens in Hok Uong’s care allowing him to appropriate one egg a day and take the rest to Miss Houston. I also gave him all the cooked food I had left. Also I had to put bricks under all or wooden boxes (three of potatoes) and two of other things and my trunk; this is to guard against white ants of which I have already found one nest in the bedroom. I tried to trace their tunnel in the basement wall, but could not. I left the house looked and windows all shut and hope it will be all right until I get back – I hope soon (another plane going over).

Yesterday was a hectic day. The siren blew at 5 o’clock but I was asleep and did not hear it. Just before 7 I heard planes coming and decided I had better get dressed and be ready for business. A few minutes later, two guns were fired indicating there were more than 20 planes on the wing. Somewhat later they boomed over us but I could not see them (there goes a bomb away down the river! and another! and another!) There were 11 in all and the Toppings from their veranda saw 7 of them (another bomb!) They were going over by 2’s and 3’s and singly at intervals all day until mid-pm. I heard 6 bombs go off up river; the Toppings heard 8 (another plan roars over low). Dr Dyer from her back veranda thought they fell above Upper Bridge somewhere. Yesterday was the longest time between the Ging-Bo and the Gai-Du – the siren and the all-off – there has ever been since the war began.
The Consul says the Lieng Gung and Diong Loh have definitely been taken and the Government offices of those places have fled. But the invading force is not all Japanese; about 40 in each place are J and the rest are bandits, a hundred or two in each place that the J’s have picked up to help them. We wonder about Miss Ward. I suspect she would feel obliged to stay and guard the property as she is the only foreigner there (another plane and others roaring in the distance).

I was assigned to Mrs Wesley’s and arrived there about 9 o;clock last evening. I found her and Clara Jean at Mrs Lacy’s for dinner so went there to report my arrival. Had an awfully slow man who did not run at all and couldn’t pull me up the hills while ricksha pullers that passed s ran up (another plane just swooped over low, going down river, north-east) I had to walk the last half mile. I had 8 oranges left and over a dozen eggs, so I thought I would take the oranges and 8 of the eggs to my Nantai hostess-to-be, in part payment for my board. I packed them in a small fruit basked in which I bought the oranges and put them in the hood of the ricksha.

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RG02, Arthur Presbyterian Board of Foreign Box 5 Judson Brown Missions Correspondence, 1901-1953, regarding Missions in Africa, China, Colombia, India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Manchuria, the Philippines, Siam and Syria; Diary, 1901-1902, recording tour of China and the Far East.
Arthur Judson Brown was a Presbyterian clergyman, author and pioneer in the ecumenical and world missionary movements of the 20th century. The positions he held included administrative secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (1895-1929), charter trustee of the Church Peace Union (1914), organizer of several World War I relief committees, editor of Missionary Review of the World (1930), vice-president of the International World Alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches (1933-1937).
Extent: 25 archival boxes plus one oversize box; total linear footage 9.5’
Please note that we have only filmed selected boxes as indicated.
The bulk of the papers relate to Brown’s activities in the Presbyterian church, the Presbyterian board of Foreign Missions, and with the ecumenical and world missionary movements. Of special interest are Brown’s travel diaries of tours of China and the Far East, 1901-1902 and 1909.
Chronology of the life of Arthur Judson Brown
1856: born at Holliston, Mass.
1864: father, Edwin T Brown, dies in the Civil War, the family moves to Wisconsin
1880: A B, Wabash College
1883: graduates from Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio; ordination; marries Jennie Elizabeth Thomas
1884: pastorate at the First Presbyterian Church, Ripon, Wisconsin
1884-1888: pastorate at the First Presbyterian Church, Oak Park, Illinois
1885-1887: Literary Editor of the Interior, Chicago
1886: A M, Wabash College
1887: Moderator of the Synod of Chicago
1888-1895: pastorate at the First Presbyterian Church, Portland, Oregon
1890: Chairman of the Portland City Board of Charities; drafts law organizing Oregon’s first State Board of Charities and Corrections
1891: awarded DD, Lake Forest college
1895-1929: serves as Administrative Secretary, later General Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
1896: first attends the Foreign Mission Conference of North America, later becomes first Chairman of the Committee of Reference and Counsel (16 years) and Chairman of the Emergency Committee on Support of Missionary Societies
1898-1900 Ecumenical Missionary Conference, New York – member Executive committee; chairman – Hospitality Committee
1901-1902 world trip to Asian missions
1909: world trip
1910: World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland – member Executive Committee, Chairman, American Section; member of Continuation Committee for 16 years
1910 Commission of the Federal Council of Churches on Relief for Protestant Churches in France and Belgium-chairman; resumes following World War I
1913 awarded DD, Yale University
1914: British and Foreign Bible Society – Honorary Foreign Member 1914-1963: Council on Religion and international Affairs (formerly The Church Peace Union) – Charter Trustee; member Executive and Finance Committees;
Treasurer since 1936
1914: World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Through Religion – member Executive Committee
1914-1937: Peking Union Medical College, China - trustee; member Executive Committee; post 1937 member Advisory Committee
1915: Near East Relief – trustee
1915-1918: Moral Aims of World War I – member Executive Committee
1915-1919: National Committee on Relief of Children in Belgium – member Organizing and Executive Committees
1915-1963: Hall of Fame for Great Americans – elector
1916: awarded LL D, James Millikin University, Carroll College, Maryville College, Missouri Valley College
1917: Foreign Missions Conference of North America – Chairman
1917: awarded LL D, Wabash College
1918-1940: Hungary-American Society – Chairman of Executive Committee, Vice President; 1920 – Chairman of Deputation to Hungary
1919: Committee on Relief for Protestant Churches in Devastated Regions in Europe in World War 1
1920-1937: American Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities – Chairman; 1937 – Honorary Chairman
1920: Life and Work Movement – member of delegation sent by Federal Council of Churches of US for its delegation 1920: Greek Decoration – Officer of the Royal Order of George I
1921: International Missionary Council – organizer
1921: Siamese Decoration – Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant
1924: National Committee on American-Japanese Relations – member
1925: Conference of Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian System, Cardiff, Wales – Committee member and speaker
1925: Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work, Stockholm, Sweden – Joint President; Chairman; Chairman – American Section; helps establish “Life and Work” headquarters at Geneva in 1928; Chairman - Continuation Committee until 1936
1927: World Conference on Faith and Order, Lausanne, Switzerland – delegate
1930: editor the Missionary Review of the World for one year
1931: Save the Children Federation – first President; 1931-1936 – Honorary President; member Executive Committee
1933-1937: International World Alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches – Vice President; President – American Section
1937: Eugene Field Society (National Literary Association) – honorary membership
1960: Hall of Fame for Great Americans – citation
1963: dies at New York City, age 106
Undated Activities:
Alborz College, Iran – trustee
American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief – member
American-Palestine Committee – member
Asiatic Institute – member Executive Committee
Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China – member
Boys’ Town – honorary member
Cheeloo University, China – President American Board of Governors
Chosen Christian College, Korea – trustee
Christ for the World Movement – member
Church Committee for Armenia – member
Committee of Reception to Viscount Allenby – member
Committee on Interchange of Speakers between the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Australia (now under World Council of Churches) – member
Conference on Religion and Support of United Nations – member Executive Committee
Emergency Committee for Relief of Refugee in Greece – Chairman
Golden Rule Foundation – member Advisory Committee
Japanese-Christian Society, New York – member Advisory Committee
League of Nations Non-Partisan Association – Honorary Vice-President
League to Enforce Peace – member Executive Committee, Speakers’ Commission
National Civic Federation of immigration Department – member Executive Committee
Committee on Church and Welfare Recovery – member
National Council of World Fellowship of Faiths – member
Phi Gamma Delta – member
World Alliance Committee on Relations Between the United States and Canada – member
The Arthur Judson Brown Papers, comprising 25 boxes of material, are divided into five series:
I Correspondence, 1864-1967 (all Mission correspondence covered)
II Diaries and Enclosures, 1901-1902, 1909 (all covered)
III Writings, 1890-1962
IV Personal Items and Memorabilia, 1894-1962
V Printed Material, 1884-1963
We have only covered those sections indicated, but have included some description of the overall collection to help users.
Although the papers span the years 1884-1863, the bulk of the material concerns the years 1895-1929, the dates of Dr Brown’s career with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. It should be noted, however, that the material represents the personal papers of the clergyman; not any archival records of the Board. The papers of this mission executive document many developments in church and social history, including the ecumenical movement, of which he was a pioneer.
Correspondence, the first and largest series in the Papers, reflects the long life and career of Dr Brown. Although there are some letters written by him, most of the material consists of correspondence he received. A wide variety of material is represented in the eight respective sections of this series:
Correspondence: General
Correspondence: Family
Correspondence Re: Publications
Correspondence Re: Missions
Correspondence Re: Anniversaries
Correspondence Re: Birthdays
Correspondence Re: Retirement
Correspondence Re: Illness and Sympathy
For this microfilm edition we have filmed the entirety of the fourth section of the series: Correspondence Re: Missions. This houses originals, copies and extracts of Arthur Judson Brown’s correspondence with foreign missionaries, Christian nationals, and specific missions. Most of the material deals with the Near and Far East, particularly China. Some foreign language material and translations are included.
Diaries and Enclosures, the second series in the Arthur Judson Brown Papers, contains the clergyman’s accounts of his 1901-1902 Asian tour, 1909 world tour, and the material found inside these volumes.

Prompted by the Boxer Rebellion, Dr and Mrs Brown began a tour of Asia as representatives of the Board of Foreign Missions in February 1901. The clergyman recorded seventeen volumes entitled “Diary of Arthur J Brown on Tour of Asia” during the fifteen month trip. His daily entries provide valuable accounts of the Near and Far East at the beginning of the twentieth century. The contents of each volume vary greatly, but generally include descriptions of professional conferences and meetings, visits to hospitals, schools and churches, personal impressions and travel adventures. Conflicts between Protestant and Roman Catholic missionary interests are mentioned frequently.

Book VI of the 1901-1902 Diary, written from Pao-tung-fu and Peking in the aftermath of the Boxers, is perhaps the most significant of the seventeen volumes. Dr Brown’s moving experiences at the Paoo-ting-fu mission are recorded in the first pages of the volume. Reference to Yan Shih-kai’s troops, the Boxer (“Allied Villagers”) takeover of a city thirty miles to the south, and the reconstruction of the missionary compound are also of note.

Topics included in Dr Brown’s Peking accounts are the Boxer Rebellion, the subsequent indemnity question, and the suicides of Chinese women in connection with the march of foreign troops. A July 16, 1901 entry records Brown’s interview with Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of Imperial Maritime Customs. While in the capital, he also met missionaries of different Protestant denominations and called on the Roman Catholic Bishop – indications of his ecumenical spirit.

The material enclosed in the seventeen volume diary supplements Dr Brown’s writings. Newspaper articles, receipts, notes, pamphlets and a menu are among the items which relate directly to the entries. Four maps of Shantung Province, then governed by Yan Shih-kai, illustrate a route suggested by F H Chalfant, the locations of Protestant missions in the province, “Mail Routes of Am. Pres. Miss. Service” and “Part of Shantung Showing F H Chalfant’s Itineraries 1897”.

During his five month world trip begun in July 1909, the clergyman recorded five volumes entitled “Journal of Arthur J Brown World Tour 1909”. The clergyman’s writings and activities during the second tour are similar to those of his 1901-1902 trip, generally recording professional conferences and meetings, visits to missions and institutions, personal reflections, and travel descriptions. More specific passages are also significant: the question of Christian church co-operation in the first two volumes, and reference to the Russo-Japanese War in “Books III and IV”. The fourth volume also contains the account of the clergyman’s Peking interview with a son of Yuah Shih-kai, who stated that the governor had given him a copy of Brown’s New Forces in Old China with advice to read it. The final book deals principally with the Brown’s experiences travelling by rail from Harbin, China, to Berlin, Germany. A few enclosures, such as train schedules and calling cards, were contained in the 1909 diary.
Series 1: Correspondence
Correspondence Re: Missions: This section is arranged alphabetically by country and chronologically within each folder.
Box Folder Contents Date
5 155 Africa 1906, 1908
156 China 1903, 1906-1908, 1909
157 China
158 China 1913-1914, 1916,
1920-1923, 1946
159 China 1901
160 Colombia 1914, 1916, 1921
161 India 1902
162 Japan 1909-10, 1925, 1926-28
163 Korea 1903-1909, 1915-1929, 1945, 1952-1953, n.d.
164 Laos 1901, 1908
165 Manchuria 1909, 1927-1928
166 Philippine Islands 1905-(1923), 1927
167 Siam 1902-1932
168 Syria 1902
169 Syria 1907-1908, 1936
170 Other Countries,
“all the Missions” 1911, 1925, 192

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RG02, Arthur Diary, 1901-1902. Box 11 Judson Brown
Series II; Diaries and Enclosures
Box Folder Contents & Date
11 1 Book I, Text: New York, USA – Tokyo, Japan 1901 Feb 11 -1901 Apr 8
2 Book I, Enclosures: Clipping – pp 64-65
3 Book II, Text: Tokyo, Japan – Kom Dong, Korea 1901 Apr 8 –1901 May 2
4 Book II, Enclosures; Note from J D Davis – p 42
5 Book III, Text: Kum Dong, Korea – Wei Hien, China 1901 May 1 –1901 May 27
6 Book IV, Text: Wei Hein, China – Tai Shan, “the sacred mountain of China” 1901 May 28 –1901 Jun 12
7 Book IV, Enclosures: Clipping p. 134, Clipping and Pamphlet p 174
8 Book V, Text: T;ai Shan, “the sacred mountain of China” Pao-ting-fu, China 1901 Jun 13 –1901 Jul 5
9 Book VI, Cover and Text (a pad): Peking, China 1901 Jul 9-18
10 Book VI, Enclosures: Extracts of “Eleventh Annual Report of Peking University” re: industry – p 16
11 Book VII, Text: Chefoo, China – Tsinglan, China 1901 July 19 –1901 Aug 11
12 Book VII, Enclosures: Clipping
13 Book VII, Enclosures: Maps of Shantung Province:
1) route suggested to Brown by F H Chalfant;
2) locations of Protestant missions; 3) “Mail Routes of Am. Pres. Miss. Service”
14 Book VIII, Text: Tsinglan, China – Canton, China 1901 Aug 13 –1901 Sep 15
Series II; Diaries and Enclosures (continued)
Box Folder Contents & Date
11 15 Book VIII, Enclosures: Clipping p 74, Program – p 86, Clipping re: McKinley Assassination – p 119, note from Henry V, Noyes – p 143
16 Book IX, Text: Canton, China – Iloilo, Philippine Islands 1901 Sep 15 -1901 Oct 9
17 Book IX, Enclosures: Clipping p 12, Clipping re: Dr Brown – p 22, Estimate – p 109, Clipping re: Typhoon – p 117
18 Book X, Text: Manila, Philippine Islands – Bangkok, Siam 1901 Oct 10 –1901 Nov 8
19 Book X, Enclosures: Clippings re: Reception for Mr and Mrs Brown p 15, clippings re: typhoon – p 39
20 Book XI, Text: Bangkok, Siam – Proa, Laos 1901 Nov 8 –1901 Nov 29
21 Book XI, Enclosures: note re: Book XI – pp 107-108, Receipt from cook, in Siamese – p 158, “Memo of Declaration” – p 195
22 Book XII, Text: Pre, Laos – Chieng Mai, Laos 1901 Nov 30 -1901 Dec 18
23 Book XII, Enclosures: Translation of letter re: Suspected adultery case – p 9
24 Book XIII, Text: Chieng Mai, 1901 Dec 1 S – Laos - Bangkok, Siam 1902 Jan 15
25 Book XIII, Enclosures: Letter from Laos Mission to Board p 23, Siamese postage receipt p S1, “Press Material – p 129
26 Book XIV, Text: Bangkok, Siam – Lucknow, India 1902 Jan 15 –1902 Feb 14
27 Book XIV, Enclosures: Clipping p 58, Material re: Rangoon Baptist College – p 71, Receipt – p111, Pamphlet – p 145, clipping – p 145
28 Book XV, Text: Saharanpur, India – Aden, Arabia 1902 Feb 15 -1902 Mar 7
29 Book XV, Enclosures: Clippings opp p 1, p 4k, p46 p 62, p 132

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RG02, Box Arthur Diary, 1901-1902. 12 Judson Brown 12
30 Book XVI, Text: Aden, Arabia – Jaffa, Palestine 1902 Mar 8 –1902 Apr 7
31 Book XVI, Enclosures: Clippings pp 4-5, p 12, p 133, Cover of a Men – p 172
32 Book XVII, Text: Beirut, Syria – New York 1902 Apr 7 –1902 May 17
33 Book XXII, Enclosures: Note re: Beirut Conference pp 80-81

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RG02, Box Arthur Diary 1909, recording 2nd tour of 13 Judson Brown China and the Far East.13
34 Book I, Text: New York, USA – Tokyo, Japan 1909 Jul 27 –1909 Aug 30
35 Book II, Text: Tokyo, Japan – Seoul, Korea 1909 Aug 31 –1909 Sep 15
36 Book II, Enclosures; Three calling cards – 1909 Sep 9-10
37 Book III, Text: Seoul, Korea – Port Arthur, Japan 1909 Sep 15 -1909 Oct 6
38 Book III, Enclosures: List 1909 Sep 30, Korean railroad timetable – 1909 Oct 1
39 Book IV, Text: Port Arthur, Japan – Nanking, China 1909 Oct 6 –1909 Oct 24
40 Book IV, Enclosures: Calling card 1909 Oct 6-7, 1909 Oct 17 Memorial Train schedule – 1909 Oct 20, Editorial 1909 Oct 20-21, Clipping – 1909 Oct 20-21
41 Book V, Text: Nanking, China – Chefoo China 1909 Oct 25 –1909 Nov 18
42 Book VI, Text: Chefoo, China – 1909 Nov 18 New York 1909 Dec 21
43 Misc enclosures

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RG07, Campbell Family George Campbell. Baptist missionary,Boxes 12-13 North West Territory (1882-85), Nebraska (1885-87), South China (1887-1900), 1908-1912, 1914-1916). Box 12, items 4-7, Box 13, items 8-12. Diaries and notebooks, 1880, 1882-83, 1888, 1896-98, 1902, 1910-16.
The Campbells were a family of missionaries in China. George Campbell and his wife, Jennie Wortman Campbell served in South China (1887-1916). Four of their eight children continued missionary efforts. Louise Campbell, principal of the Kwong Yit Girls’ School, Meihsien, Kwangtung Province, worked for 40 years among the Hakka tribespeople, as did her sister, Margaret Larue Campbell Burket and Margaret’s husband, Everett S Burket, from 1916-1946. Dorothy McBride Campbell served in China from 1926-1944, as did David Miles Campbell from 1926-1942.
Extent: 31 archival boxes 31; total linear footage 12’ 3 ½”
The papers document two generations of Baptist missionary effort in South China. Extensive biographical and autobiographical material gives insight into the personal lives of the Campbells. Conditions in China during World War II are reflected in the letters of Louise and Dorothy Campbell.
The Campbell Family Papers are divided into four series:
I Correspondence, 1800s-1972
II Diaries and notebooks, 1855-1968
III Writings, 1880-1972
IV Personal Items and Memorabilia, 1868-1972
We offer fairly full coverage of Series III, the diaries and notebooks, in this microfilm edition. We have concentrated on the diaries of George, Jennie, Louise and Dorothy Campbell which have material pertaining to China. We have not included diaries which contain very little information, or if they were very difficult to read. We have also excluded material which goes beyond 1945. The exact list of volumes filmed can be seen on the following pages.

Biographical notes:
The marriage of Jennie Wortman and George Campbell marked the beginning of two generations of Baptist missionary effort, first in the United States and later in China. The products of deeply religious families, both had decided independently to become missionaries prior to meeting. In turn, four of the couple’s eight children continued the missionary efforts.
Born in St Charles, Illinois, George Campbell spent most of his boyhood and early youth in Delavan, Illinois, where his father was a Baptist minister from 1782 to 1885. It is interesting to note that Thomas Philpot Campbell offered himself for missionary service, ultimately to be rejected on the grounds of his wife’s poor health. She outlived him by twenty years. George, their only son, graduated from Colgate University. [Some sources indicate Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, where others state Hamilton College, his father’s alma mater, and Morgan Park Baptist Theological Seminary.] He married Jennie Wortman in 1882, as previously noted.

Jennie Wortman was born in a log cabin in Van Wert, Ohio in 1863. Shortly thereafter, her father, James Wortman, died in the Civil War. Her mother, Mary Larue Wortman, an Ohio native, remarried in 1868 to widower Reuben B Wood, a Baptist deacon. This merger created a large family: three Wortman children and seven Wood children, in addition to two children of Mary and Reuben Wood. Jennie Wortman received her teaching certificate at the age of fourteen and considered becoming a medical missionary. Two years later she attended Mt Carroll Seminary for Girls in Illinois, where her schoolmate Elia Campbell introduced her to Elia’s brother, George.

Following their marriage in 1882, George and Jennie Campbell served as home missionaries in the North West Territory from 1882-1885, and at Tecumsah, Nebraska from 1885-1887. In that year, they left for China with their three small children. Five more children were born between that time and 1901.
The couple served in South China from 1887 to 1900, 1908 to 1912 and from 1914 to 1916. An eight year span, 1900-1908, was spent in missionary activity on the West Coast of the United States. Following her husband’s death in 1927, Jennie Campbell returned to China where she remained until 1933. She died in 1939 at the home of her son, Kenneth.

Louise Campbell (1883-1968) graduated from Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, in 1928 and served as a China missionary for forty years. Her work centred on the Hakkas, hill people of the region, and as principal of the Kwong Yit Girls’ School, Meihaien, Kwangtung Province.
Miriam Elizabeth Campbell (1886-c1972) had some musical education, became a nurse and service in France during World War One. She married Captain Edward L Joyce, whom she met in Europe. The couple had two sons, one of whom was killed in World War Two. She lived in Toledo, Ohio from 1919 to 1944, at which time she moved to California.

Paul Wortman Campbell (1887-1977) attended the Mt Herman School, Northfield, Massachusetts, and spent most of his life as a realtor in Eugene, Oregon. He married Lanna Mallet in 1918, and the couple had three sons.

Thomas Packer Campbell (1889-1951) graduated from Linfield College in 1913 and married her classmate, Everett S Burket, the following year. In 1916, the couple sailed for China, where they worked among the Hakkas until their retirement in 1946. They had four children.
Kenneth Malcolm Campbell (1896-c1973) attended the China Inland Mission School for Boys, Chefoo, north China (where he was a classmate of Thornton Wilder) and Linfield College, and enlisted in the Navy during World War One. He spent much of his life as a teacher and farmer in Washington. His wife, Bodil Weil, was also a teacher. They had four children.

Dorothy McBride Campbell (1898-1972) graduated from Linfield College around 1920, Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing, Class of 1923, and the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. In 1926 she left for China where she served until 1944. At that time she become a nurse in New York City, where she pursued her interests in writing and psychology by taking courses at Columbia University.

David Miles Campbell (1901-c1972) attended Linfield College for two years, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles from 1922 to 1934 and graduated from Occidental College in 1926. He served as a China missionary from 1926-1942. From 1942 to 1944 he was interpreter for Chinese troops for General Joseph Stilwell. After this war, he became a contractor in Eugene, Oregon. In 1957, he moved to Southern California where he retired in 1964. He married Bessie Mae Gillis in 1936. The couple, divorced in 1962, had three children.
Series II: Diaries and notebooks
Diaries and notebooks, the largest series in the Campbell Family Papers, is composed of the material of five individuals:

Thomas Philpot Campbell – one diary, kept from 1855 to 1857, which contains accounts of his travels.
George Campbell – many diaries, notebooks, autograph books, etc. these sources chronicle the missionary’s life from his youth in Illinois, to China, and old age. The material spans the years from 1874 to 1927.

Jennie W Campbell – several diaries, guest books, birthday books, etc. her earliest diary, written from 1881 to 1882 while at Mt Carroll Seminary for Girls in Illinois, may be of particular interest. Her material dates from 1879 to 1939, although there is a gap in diary keeping from 1882 to 1927.
Louise Campbell – extensive diary kept from 1895 to 1967 with few interruptions. Notebooks, date books, account books, etc comprise the remainder of her material.
Dorothy Campbell – extensive personal diaries and notebooks recorded from 1908 to 1966, with few exceptions.

Material in this series is arranged chronologically. In the case of the Louise Campbell material, diaries appear first, followed by notebooks, then account books, etc. Diaries and Notebooks occasionally overlap in form, as well as in dates.
Box Folder Contents & Date
12 4 George Campbell: A Manual of Church History – used at Baptist Theological Seminary, Morgan Park, III, with notes in Chinese 1880
5 George Campbell: Diary excerpts (typed) – incl courtship letter to Jennie Wortman 1882-1883 6 George Campbell: Diary 1888
7 George Campbell: “Observations with Transit” 1896-1897
13 8 George Campbell: Diary (begins at back) 1896-1898
9 George Campbell: Diary (begins at back) 1902, 1910-1911
Series II: Diaries and notebooks (continued)
Box Folder Contents & Date
10 George Campbell: Account Book and Notes 1912
11 George Campbell: Diary 1912-1916
12 George Campbell: Notebook/Diary 1913

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RG07, Campbell Family Jennie Campbell. Baptist missionary, Boxes 15-16 North West Territory (1882-85), Nebraska (1885-87), South China (1887-1900), 1908-1912, 1914-1916, 1927-1933). Box 15, item 25, Box 16, items 28-30. Diary, 1881-82; Guestbook, 1917-35; Diaries,1927-1934.
Series II: Diaries and notebooks (continued)
Box Folder Contents & Date
15 25 Jennie W Campbell: Diary 1881-1882
16 28 Jennie W Campbell: Guest Book 1917-1930
29 Jennie W Campbell: Diary, with a few entries by George Campbell 1927-1930
30 Jennie W Campbell: Diary 1928-1934

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RG07, Campbell Family Louise Campbell. Baptist missionary, Boxes 17 & 20 1929-1968, centred on the Hakkas hill people, and as Principal of Kwong Yit Girl’s School, Meihaien, Kwangtung. Box 17, items 32-37, Box 20, item 54. Diaries, 1895, 1902, 1909, 1913-1915; Record of first year as a missionary.
Series II: Diaries and notebooks (continued)
Box Folder Contents & Date
17 32 Louise Campbell: Diary 1895
33 Louise Campbell: Diary 1902
34 Louise Campbell: Diary 1909
35 Louise Campbell: Diary 1913
36 Louise Campbell: Diary 1914
37 Louise Campbell: Diary 1915
20 54 Louise Campbell: Record of her first year as a missionary 1911

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RG07, Box 18 Campbell Family Louise Campbell. Box 18, items 38-40.
Diaries, 1916-1926.
18 38 Louise Campbell: Diary 1916
39 Louise Campbell: Diary 1917-1921
40 Louise Campbell: Diary, with two pressed leaves enclosed, 1922-1926

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RG07, Campbell Family Louise Campbell.Boxes 18-19 Box 18, items 41-42, Box 19, item 43. Diaries, 1927-1941.
Series II: Diaries and notebooks (continued)
Box Folder Contents & Date
41 Louise Campbell: Diary 1927-1931
42 Louise Campbell: Diary, typed excerpts re: family reunion of 1935 1932-1936
43 Louise Campbell: Diary 1937-1941

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RG07, Campbell Family Louise Campbell.Boxes 19 & 22 Box 19, items 44-45, Box 22, items 65-66. Diaries, 1942-1951; Account Book, 1947-1950; Sunday School Roll, 1949.
Series II: Diaries and notebooks (continued)
Box Folder Contents & Date
44 Louise Campbell: Diary, typed excerpts 1942-1946
45 Louise Campbell: Diary 1947-1951
22 65 Louise Campbell: Account Book 1947-1950
66 Louise Campbell: Sunday School Class Roll Book 1949

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RG07, Campbell Family Dorothy Campbell, Baptist missionary, Boxes 23-25 1926-1944. Box 23, items 74-76, Box 24, items 86-87 and Box 25, items 94-98. Diaries, 1908-12 (includes visit to Japan), 1914-1921, 1938-1945.
Series II: Diaries and notebooks (continued)
Box Folder Contents & Date
74 Dorothy Campbell: Diary 1908, 1912
75 Dorothy Campbell: Diary 1914-1919
76 Dorothy Campbell: Diary/Notebook 1920-1921
24 86 Dorothy Campbell: Diary 1938-1944
87 Dorothy Campbell: Notebook 1939, 1943-1944
25 94 Dorothy Campbell: Notebook 1944
95 Dorothy Campbell: Notebook 1944
96 Dorothy Campbell: Notebook 1944
97 Dorothy Campbell: Notebook 1944
98 Dorothy Campbell: Notebook 1944 Dec - 1945 Jan

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RG142, Box 6 Elsie Clark Methodist Episcopal Church, Foochow, Fukien, 1912-1918.
Box 6, items 42-44. Diaries, 1912-1914; Biographical sources.
Elsie Clark Krug was an American Methodist missionary in Foochow from 1912 to 1918. She taught at Hwa Nan College, then in its preliminary stages as a mission-supported college for women.
Extent: 7 archival boxes; total linear footage 2.5’
The papers are arranged in five series:
I Correspondence, 1912-1918
II Diaries, 1912-1914
III Personal items and Memorabilia, 1909-1986
IV Photographs, c1915-1945
V Collected material, 1913-1947
We have filmed both diaries from series three.
Biographical note by Dorothy Krug (daughter of Elsie Clark Krug), February 1979:
Elsie G Clark was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 6, 1888, the daughter of George Fremont and Sarah Catherine Clark. One of seven children, she had a normal, happy, middle-class childhood. She graduated from the Girl’s Latin School in 1905, and in 1909 was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Goucher College; then known as the Woman’s College of Baltimore). After taking some graduate courses in English at Johns Hopkins University, she entered the University of Chicago Divinity School, from which she received an MA degree.

Early in her college years she had expected to become a missionary to India, but, hearing a Chinese man speak at an assembly, decided instantly that she would prefer to go to China. In 1912, under the auspices of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, she went to Foochow, Fukien Province, China, to teach at Hwa Nan College. At that time it was a junior college, but later was to become a fully accredited woman’s college, with an AB degree recognised in the graduate schools of the United States.

After returning home on furlough in 1918, she was married to Andrew II Krug. A daughter, Dorothy, was born in 1921. After a separation and later divorce, Elsie Clark Krug owned and ran a gift shop, specialising at first in Chinese jasmine tea and Oriental decorative objects. Later she added imports from other countries and also foreign, antique, and character dolls. Friends and acquaintances in mission stations around the world were able to assist her in obtaining authentic dolls typical of their countries. She is recognised as an authority on dolls and often spoke to doll collectors’ clubs. Her shop was discontinued in 1953.

Although she never returned as an active missionary, she maintains a life-long interest in church and missionary work, frequently being asked to speak to church groups. Since college days she has been an active member of the Lovely Lane United Methodist Church in Baltimore, the Mother Church of American Methodism.

In 1932, on a trip around the world in which many Methodist mission stations were visited, she had a happy reunion with former colleagues and students at Hwa Nan College. Feeling a special affinity for Chinese people, she has kept in touch with her former students, and has had many visits and letters from them and their children and grandchildren.
Interest in the woman’s suffrage movement as a youth, she has never failed to vote in a primary or general election – usually against whichever party has been in power too long. She is a supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Elsie Clark Krug has worked in many capacities for the Goucher College Alumnae Association, and is a life member of the American Association of University Women, and a supporter of many cultural institutions in Baltimore, which remains her home.
Diaries and biographical sources
Box Folder Dates
42 Diary 1912, 1913
6 43 Diary 1914
6 44 Memorabilia 1909-1979

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