Dye, Daniel Sheets

1884 Feb Daniel Sheets Dye born in Ohio.

1886 Apr Jane Canby Balderston born in Maryland.

1907 DSD graduated from Denison University, Phi Beta Kappa.

1908 JBD graduated from Wellesley College.

1908 DSD went to Szechuan, West China to study Chinese in preparation for teaching science at West China Union University.

1908-1915 JBD taught at secondary schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

1910-1949 DSD taught at West China Union University, serving under American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. As an avocation, DSD recorded and analyzed window lattice and woven belt patterns, which often had swastika designs, throughout West China. DSD was a founder of the West China Border Research Society and of the West China Union University museum.

1915 JBD went to West China under the auspices of the Friends Foreign Mission Association of Great Britain and Ireland; taught at Szechuan Boarding School in Tungchwan.

1919 DSD and JBD married. Under the auspices of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, JBD taught mathematics and education at Woman's Normal School in Chengtu and West China Union University Normal School. JBD became an expert on birds of West China.

Study during furloughs in the United States led to an M.A. from Cornell University for DSD and an M.A. from Columbia University for JBD.

1937 Two volume work by DSD entitled A Grammar of Chinese Lattice published by Harvard University Press.

1940 DSD received honorary doctorate from Denison University.

1949 Returned to Colora, Maryland following Communist takeover in China.

1950-1960 Served as co-directors of John Woolman Memorial in Mt. Holly, New Jersey prior to retirement in Colora. JBD instrumental in organizing North East Maryland branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

1976 JBD died in Colora, Maryland.

1977 DSD died in Colora, Maryland.

From the guide to the Daniel S. and Jane Balderston Dye Papers, 1905-1987, (Yale University Divinity School Library)