Edith Winifred Simester papers 1930-1952

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Edith Winifred Simester papers 1930-1952

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv18821

Edith Simester was a Christian missionary in China and later Brazil, serving from the 1930s through the 1950s. The collection includes incoming correspondence and transcriptions of letters to her mother.

0.25 linear feet, 1 containter, 4 folders

eng,

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6367274

University of Oregon Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

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Dacorso Filho, César

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Simester, Edith

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Methodist Church (U.S.)

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Simester, Edith Winifred

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Born into a Methodist missionary family in China, Edith Simester attended Chinese schools before moving to the United States where she attended college and graduate school. In 1930, Simester entered missionary service and moved to Foochow (Fuzhou) in northern China where she worked as a teacher in a missionary school. She remained in Fuzhou until 1946 (however, it appears that she was in the United States during much of World War II, from 1937-45) when she returned to the U.S. to ca...