Lillian Picken Papers, 1921-1974

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Lillian Picken Papers, 1921-1974

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Correspondence, writings, and collected materialsdocument Picken's work and the work of the ABCFM in India beginning in 1928.Lillian Picken was an American missionary in India, serving under the AmericanBoard of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American Marathi Mission, laterknown as the United Church Board for World Ministries. She took part ineducational, industrial, social, and evangelistic work in the Satara area ofwestern India.

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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...

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Lillian Picken was born in Eureka, Kansas and graduated from Kansas State Teachers College (1908) and Colorado College (1912). She was assigned to Bombay when she first went to India under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1914, but transferred to the Satara area in 1919, where she engaged in educational, industrial, social, and evangelistic work. She founded the Child Welfare Center in Waduth, the Spiritual Life Center at Nasrapur, and an inter-denominatio...

Fisher, Louise

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