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Fairbank family. Fairbank Family Papers, 1837-1971 (bulk 1905-1940).

Title: Fairbank Family Papers, 1837-1971 (bulk 1905-1940).

Chiefly correspondence between members of the Fairbank family. Several were Protestant missionaries for the American Board of commissioners for Foreign Missions (A.B.C.F.M.) that later became the United Church Board for World Ministries, primarily in West Central India. Correspondents and missionaries represented in the collection are Samuel Bacon Fairbank and his children and their spouses, including his sons Henry and wife, Mary; Edward and wife Mary Caskey; and his daughters Katie Fairbank Hume; Emily and husband Thomas Snell Smith; and Rose and husband Lester Beals. Also includes a few letters from Edward's son, Robert, who was also a missionary in India. Topics covered by the letters include: family news; mission work in schools, churches, hospitals, and agricultural work; Indian politics, economics, geography, and culture; world events such as World War I and the Chinese rebellion in Foochow during 1911; the Great Depression in 1929; and the rise of Mahatma Gandhi. Particularly highlighted is the Willis F. Pierce Memorial Hospital in the Wai District, India, which the Beals were instrumental in building. Other major areas of their mission work were in the Ahmednagar and Vadala Districts of India and in Ceylon. Printed material includes background information about mission work and the Fairbank family. Also includes photographs of Fairbank family members.

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