William Earl Dodge Ward (AC 1906) Family Papers 1791-1977 1870-1935

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College. In the 19th century it was the largest and most important of American missionary organizations and consisted of participants from Protestant Reformed traditions such as Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and German Reformed churches. Before 1870, the ABCFM consisted of Protestants of several denominati...

Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Bliss family.

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Dwight, Henry Otis, 1843-1917

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Storer, John, 1750-1826

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Ward, Charlotte A. (Charlotte Allen), 1880-1973

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Charlotte Allen was born on December 11, 1880 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1903 and taught at various schools until her marriage in 1907 to Edwin St. John Ward, a surgeon and Professor of Surgery. They had five children. For 25 years she lived in the Middle East while her husband worked in various hospitals for the Red Cross. In 1931 he became the medical director of the Hospital Cottages for Children in Baldwinville. Charlotte Ward died on November 1...

Bliss, Edwin Elisha, 1817-1892

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Ward, Mary I. (Mary Isabella), 1874-1961

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Missionary and teacher in Turkey, 1901-1944, under the auspices of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of M. Ward Papers, 1893-1960. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 12089136 Mary Isabella Ward was born on September 19, 1874 in Brookline, Massachusetts to Langdon and Laura (Bliss) Ward. Her father was treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for nearly thirty years. She graduated from Newton ...

Ward, Ione Eggleston, 1887-1972

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Young Men's Christian Association (India)

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Ward, Edwin St. John, 1880-1951

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Edwin St. John Ward (1880-1951) graduated from Amherst College in 1900. He received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1904. From 1907 through 1911 he was a medical missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Turkey. He was a professor of surgery at the American University in Beirut from 1911-1931, where he served as the acting Dean of the Medical Department from 1920-1921 and as Dean of Medical Faculty from 1924-1931. Dr. Ward was also a m...

Ward, Lauriston, 1786-1851

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Beach, Ruth Porter Ward, 1881-1933

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Ward, Paul Theodore Bliss, 1878-1910

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Ward, Laura Arixene Bliss, 1846-1914

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Bliss, Isabella Holmes Porter, 1819-1897

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Ward family.

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Ward, William Earl Dodge, 1884-1977

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Son, grandson, brother, husband, nephew, uncle, and cousin of missionaries, William Earl Dodge Ward was born in Newton Center, Massachusetts in 1884 to Langdon Storer Ward, Treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and Laura Arixene Bliss Ward, herself a missionary at a young age. Ward, known to family and friends as Earl, spent the first twenty-two years of his life in Massachusetts. His father died in 1895 when Earl was not quite 11 years old, leaving ...

Ward, Langdon Storer, 1828-1895

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Ward, Dora Mattoon, 1883-1979

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Dwight, H. G. (Harrison Griswold), 1875-1959

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Harrison Griswold Dwight, author, was born in Constantinople, Turkey in 1875. He prepared for Amherst College at the preparatory school of Robert College, Constantinople, with which his father was connected, and St. Johnsbury, Vermont Academy. After graduation from Amherst, he entered the consular service. In 1918 he was translator with the American Section of the Supreme War Council at Versailles. In 1919 he was secretary to General Tasker Bliss at the peace conference in Paris. For several yea...

Bliss, William Dwight Porter, 1856-1926

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Ward, Martha Storer, 1876-1887

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King, Olive Storer, 1802-1871

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Ward, Mark Hopkins, 1884-1952

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