Smith family.

The Smiths were a family of Congregational missionaries in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow. Educated at Amherst College and Hartford Theological Seminary, Edward Huntington Smith devoted nearly 50 years of his life to running an orphanage, raising funds, and promoting Christian education in Ing Tai, Fukien, China. His wife, Grace W. Thomas Smith, educated at Tabor Academy and Wheelock College, both in Massachusetts, served as a Kindergarten teacher in the United States and China. Their daughter, Helen Huntington Smith earned degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. Appointed to China by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, she taught, participated in relief work for orphans and destitute students, in cooperatives and in counselling. She served as Director of Women's Work of the Ohio Conference of the United Church of Christ and Research Consultant for the China Records Project at Yale Divinity School Library.