Venetia Cox Papers, 1889, 1907-1958

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Venetia Cox Papers, 1889, 1907-1958

1889-1958

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0263

Papers (1889, 1907-1958) consisting of correspondence, diaries, yearbooks, scrapbook, songbook, typescript, travel accounts, photographs, newsletters, etc., related to attendance at Salem Academy and College (1908-1911) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and to the work (1917 to 1950) of Protestant Episcopal music missionary Venetia Cox (of Greenville, North Carolina) in China. Also includes letters and school materials related to Lo-I (or Louis) Yin who attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, from 1949 to 1951 on a scholarship related to Venetia Cox's music missionary work with Huachung University, Wuchang, Hupeh, China.

4.5 Cubic feet, 11 boxes and 1 oversize folder

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Xu, Shichang, 1855-1939

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North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School

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National Christian Council of China

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Cox, Venetia, 1892-1979

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Venetia Cox, of Winterville, N.C., was born in 1892. Miss Cox was a missionary music teacher in mainland China between 1917 and 1950. Supported by the Episcopal Church, Miss Cox taught for her first twenty years in China at the American Mission School located in the city of Hankow in Hupei Province. However, in 1937 the Japanese invasion of the country forced the personnel (including Miss Cox) and students of the mission to become wanderers for the next thirteen years. Continually uprooted, she ...