Daniel Sheets Dye was born in Ohio and graduated from Denison University. He taught science courses at West China Union University in Chengtu from 1910 to 1949, serving under the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. As an avocation, Dye recorded and analysed window lattice and woven belt patterns, which often had swastika designs, throughout West China. Dye was a founder of the West China Border Research Society and of the West China Union University museum of Chinese culture. Jane Balderston was born in Maryland and graduated from Wellesley College. She went to West China in 1915, serving under the Friends Foreign Mission Association of Great Britain and Ireland. After her marriage to Daniel Dye in 1919, she taught mathematics and education courses at Woman's Normal School in Chengtu and West China Union University Normal School.
From the description of Daniel S. and Jane Balderston Dye papers, 1905-1987 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702132833
