Mary Elizabeth Decherd Papers 1865, 1887-1946

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Mary Elizabeth Decherd Papers 1865, 1887-1946

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Correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, a thesis, record books, photographs, and a certificate compose the Mary Elizabeth Decherd Papers, 1865, 1887-1946, documenting Decherd's life and work with Methodist missions and other charitable organizations.

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University Methodist Church (Austin, Tex.)

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Decherd family

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Board of Missions

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Separated from Methodist Episcopal Church in 1845. In 1939, merged with two other bodies to form Methodist Church (U.S.). From the description of Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Board of Missions, 1891-1940 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152462 ...

Methodist Episcopal Church. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society

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Decherd, Mary Elizabeth, 1874-1954

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The daughter of physician George Michael Decherd, Mary Elizabeth Decherd (1874-1954) received a bachelor of arts in 1892 and a master of arts in 1897, both in literature from the University of Texas at Austin. A longtime instructor of mathematics at the university, she was heavily involved with the University Methodist Church and its student missions particularly in the church's work to found and support a school in Brazil. Decherd was also active in the greater Methodist Episcopal ...

Ladies' Aid Society (Austin, Tex.)

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