Diaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Blake and Goodsell Family papers, 1883-2005. : [manuscript]
Collection
Identifier: MS4922 (RG1200)
Abstract
Fred Field Goodsell was born to Dennis and Abby Goodsell in 1880. He graduated from UC Berkley and enrolled as a student at the Hartford Seminary in 1902. Goodsell married Lulu (Lou) Service on June 26th, 1905. Lou was born to John and Julia Service on 1881. In 1907 the couple moved to Turkey where they serviced as missionaries for the next 23 years. Their first years were at Central Turkey College in rural Aintab (Gaziantep). From 1914 to 1919 the Goodsells returned to the United States...
Dates:
1883-2005 [Bulk: 1905-1980]
Capron Family papers, 1777-1950.
Collection
Identifier: MS0044
Abstract
William Banfield Capron was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts on April 14, 1824. Sarah Brown Hooker was born in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, on April 24, 1828. Sarah and William met while both were teaching at the Hartford High School. They were married on October 1, 1856. Almost immediately after their marriage, the couple were assigned to the Madurai (then called Madura) Mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. They worked in Madurai and Manamadurai until 1872....
Dates:
1777-1950
Dora Shank papers, 1929-1940.
Collection
Identifier: MS5435
Abstract
Dora F. Shank was born in 1898 to Calvin L. Shank and Annie M. Shank. In 1929, Dora F. Shank joined the Turkey mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to work at the American Hospital in Istanbul. She married Albert Dewey who led the Azariah Smith Memorial Hospital in Gaziantep, Turkey, in 1942. The two retired from missionary work in 1959 and Dora died in 1980. This collection contains a diary and photographs from Dora Shank which document her journey to Turkey...
Dates:
1929-1940
James F. and Virginia McKinley diaries, 1942-1944. : [manuscript]
Collection
Identifier: RG1216 (RG1200)
Dates:
1942
Mary Kezia Bates diary, 1916-1918, 1927.
Collection — Box 5
Identifier: MS5042
Abstract
Mary Kezia Bates was born at the Mount Silinda mission in Rhodesia in 1888. She was the daughter of African Missionaries Francis and Laura Bates. She came to America in 1904 and studied at Oberlin until completing her nurse’s training at Kansas University. In April 1914, Mary started on her journey to Durban, South Africa, where as nurse she is to join the staff of the Board's hospital under Dr. McCord. Collection contains one transcription, done by Jeri Abbott, of Mary Kezia Bates's diary...
Dates:
1916-1918, 1927