Schlosser, George, 1875-1936.

George Donald Schlosser was born in Clinton County, Missouri in 1875. Maria Christina (Mary) Ogren was born in Jamestown, New York in 1885. They met while attending Greenville College in Illinois in 1905. George Schlosser left Greenville in 1906 to serve in South Africa under the Foreign Missionary Board of the Free Methodist Church. In 1908, he arrived in China and took responsibility for an orphanage in Kiangsu Province. After her graduation from Greenville College in 1909, Mary Ogren was stationed in Chengchow for Chinese language study. George and Mary Schlosser were married in 1911 and continued their work together in China until George's death in 1936. Mary returned to China twice after her husband's death, first from 1939-1940 and then from 1946-1949. In the years between her missionary work, she served as a pastor in North Dakota (1942-1944) and South Dakota (1951-1952). Mary Schlosser died in Kansas in 1955.

From the description of George and Mary Schlosser papers, 1906-1952 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702182064

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