Albert Dewey Papers, 1898-1958

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Albert Dewey Papers, 1898-1958

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Detailed correspondence, writings, collectedmaterial, diaries, and photographs document the life and work of Albert Deweyand his family in Turkey. Albert Dewey was an American medical missionaryserving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions inGaziantep (Aintab), Turkey from 1919 to 1959.

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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...

Dewey, Albert.

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Albert Dewey was educated at the University of Denver (B.A. 1913, M.A. 1915, M.D. 1917). He did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and in Vienna. In 1941 he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He was in the U.S. Army during World War I and saw service in London and France. With his wife, Elsie Greene Dewey, he sailed to the Near East as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1919 for work in Talas and Merzifon...