WillardLivingstone Beard Family Papers, 1892-1964

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WillardLivingstone Beard Family Papers, 1892-1964

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Correspondence, diaries, writings, and collectedmaterial provide valuable documentation of the work of Willard LivingstoneBeard and his family. Beard was a missionary in China from 1894 to 1941,serving in Fukien Province under the American Board of Commissioners forForeign Missions and the YMCA.

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Yake University Divinity School Library

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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...

Beard, Willard Livingstone, 1865-1945.

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Willard Livingstone Beard was born in Shelton, Connecticut in 1865, son of Oliver Gould Beard and Nancy Maria Nichols Beard. Following his marriage to Ellen Kinney in 1894, he served the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions' Foochow mission for over forty years (1894-1941). The Beards had six children: Phebe (1895-1925), Myron Gould (1896-1974), Geraldine (1898-1993), Dorothy (1901-1991), Marjorie (1906-1995), and Kathleen (1908-2004). During the period 1905-1910, Be...