Ethel Smith NewmanPapers 1915-2005 1915-25

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Ethel Smith NewmanPapers 1915-2005 1915-25

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Missionary teacher. Papers consist of correspondence from Ethel Smith Newman while serving as a missionary in China to her family, 1915 to 1925, as well as a published volume of the transcribed letters. Photographs are attached to some letters.

2; (.75 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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American Baptist Foreign Mission Society

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Newman, Mary S.

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Newman, Ethel Smith

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Ethel Marion Smith was born to Jeanette (Waitt) and Robert Bradford Smith in Malden, Massachusetts on February 15, 1888. She earned a degree from Salem Normal School in 1908 and taught at high schools in Augusta, Maine and Everett and Barre, Massachusetts. In 1915 she accepted a teaching position with the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, fulfilling her ambition to become a missionary. Initially stationed in the Ungkung mission in the Kwangtung (Guangdong) province of southeast China, sh...