Laura Maude Wheeler papers 1903-1966

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Laura Maude Wheeler papers 1903-1966

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv14031

Collection comprises correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, publications, postcards, and photographs relating to Methodist missionary Laura Maude Wheeler and her work as a teacher and school administrator in Tianjin, China from 1903 to 1948, and as an evangelist in the United States from 1949 to 1966. From 1943 to 1945, Wheeler was interned as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in China. She was a writer and traveler who was acutely aware of China's cultural and physical landscape and wrote widely on topics relating to Christianity in China.

4.0 linear feet, 10 containers

eng,

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6366397

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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Wheeler, Laura Maude, 1874-1966.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z33grb (person)

American Laura Maude Wheeler (1874-1966) was a Methodist missionary in Tientsin (Tianjin), northern China, primarily at the Keen School, from 1903 to 1948. From 1943 to 1945, she and other missionaries were interned as prisoners of war by the Japanese in China. Wheeler was a writer and traveler who was acutely aware of China's cultural and physical landscape. She wrote widely on topics relating to Christianity in China and published an autobiography, Recollection of my Chinese days. ...

Methodist Church (U.S.)

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Keen School (Tianjin, China)

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United Methodist Church (U.S.)

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Although this collection contains records primarily from the N.C. and Western N.C. Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), and national records from both the MECS and the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), this chronology is provided as an aid to understanding the context of the records contained in this collection. 1772 First Methodist preaching in North Carolina at Currituck Court House in northea...