Wilson, Anna Lane, 1892-1981.

Anna Marie Lane Wilson (1892-1981) served as a missionary to China under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1919 to 1949. Leaving for China in September 1918, she taught Biology, Chemistry and other subjects at the North China Union Woman's College for five years and then, in 1923, married Stanley Davis Wilson (1881-1970) who was professor of Chemistry at the Peking Union Medical College. Shortly later, the Wilsons moved to the newly formed Yenching University outside Peking, where they lived and worked until interrupted by World War II in 1941. Stanley Wilson was interned by the Japanese and repatriated half way through the war in a prisoner exchange. After the war the Wilsons returned to Yenching where they worked for another three years and were there during the takeover by the Communist regime, finally returning to California and retirement in 1949.