Murray Scott Frame, a native of Wooster, Ohio, was a teacher in Lahore, India from 1901 to 1904, before he returned to the United States to study at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. After graduating in 1907, he went to Jerusalem and studied Arabic at the American Institute of Archaeology. In 1908, Frame traveled through Italy and Austria to Germany. From 1908 to 1909, he studied Oriental studies and higher criticism at Berlin University, and German, privately. In 1909, he returned to New York before embarking on a missionary career in Peking, China for the American Board of Missions. Raised as a Presbyterian, Frame became a missionary in the Congregational Church. He began by studying Chinese and later served as an administrator and preacher in Peking and outlying areas. Frame witnessed the Republican revolution in 1911. On November, 10, 1913 he married Alice Seymour Browne, a missionary and a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. They had three children. Murray Scott Frame died in 1918 and Alice Browne Frame died in 1941. John Davidson Frame, Murray Scott's brother, was born June 26, 1880. He became a Presbyterian, medical missionary in Resht, Persia (Iran) and wrote to his sister Margaret sporadically between 1905 and 1941.
From the description of Murray Scott Frame and Alice Seymour Browne papers, 1901-1916. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 56073768
