Jarvis, Bruce W.

Bruce W. Jarvis was born in 1885 in Estherville, Iowa and attended Willamette University, Salem, Oregon; University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (B.S., 1911), and University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota (M.D., 1914).

Dr. Jarvis practiced many years in China: Peking, 1923-1929; Foochow, 1931-1937 and 1946-1949; and Chengtu, 1944-1946. He and Mrs. Jarvis were also in Nadiad, India from 1950-1943.

Anna Moffet Jarvis was born in 1892 in Bismarck, North Dakota and educated in Illinois schools, later attending University of Chicago (Ph. D, 1913); Kennedy School of Missions, 1920, 1925; and University of Wisconsin, 1925. She worked in Nanking, China, 1920-1945, and in Chengtu, China, 1944-1946. She married Dr. Jarvis in 1944 and served with him thereafter.

Dr. Jarvis' services were in the fields of general practice of medicine and X-ray, while Mrs. Jarvis served in Presbyterian missions in administrative capacities and, after her marriage, in administrative positions in Methodist organizations.