Papers, 1832-1984.

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Papers, 1832-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48404136

This collection is largely made up of papers of four of the Scovels; Carl and Louise Scovel and their son and daughter-in-law Frederick and Myra Scovel. There are also a few materials from Frederick and Myra Scovel's children, and one diary kept by Carl Scovel's brother Louie. The collection includes correspondence, diaries, articles and biographical materials. Carl and Louise Scovel also saved materials relating to their parents' families; the Scovels, the Gilmans, the Kiehles and the Wadsworths.

1.50 cubic ft.

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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SNAC Resource ID: 7594241

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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Scovel, Frederick Gilman

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Dr. Frederick Gilman Scovel (1902-) and Myra Scott Scovel (1905-1994) served the United Presbyterian Church as medical missionaries in China from 1930 to 1951 and in India from 1953 to 1959. In China, the Scovels worked at Bachman Hunter Hospital in Tsining, Shandong, China and remained there for fifteen years until they were repatriated in 1943 after a period in a Japanese internment camp. In 1946 the Scovels worked at Hope Hospital, Huai Yuan, Anhwei, China. They were transferred to Hackett Me...

Scovel, Louie A.

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Scovel family.

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Carl Wadsworth Scovel (1866-1932); Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. pastor in Baltimore, Md. and Cortland, N.Y.; married to Louise Gilman Kiehle; only child, Frederick, born 1902. Frederick Gilman Scovel (1902- ); Presbyterian medical missionary in China and India with his wife Myra Scott Scovel (1905- ), a nurse; assigned 1930 to a hospital in Shantung Province; interned, then deported by the Japanese in 1943; returned to China, this time to Anhwei Province, in 1946; t...

Scovel, Louise Gilman Kiehl.

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Scovel, Myra

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Myra Scovel (1905-1994) was an American nurse and missionary for the United Presbyterian Church for more than thirty years. She and her husband, Dr. Frederick Gilman Scovel, were assigned to missions in China (1930-1951) and India (1953-1961). She was also a writer and poet. From the guide to the Myra Scovel Manuscripts, before 1962, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Myra (Scott) Scovel (August 11, 1905- August 26, 1994) was bo...

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions

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The first Presbyterian missionaries to Japan arrived in Yokohama in 1859. Despite hostility experienced by the missionaries throughout the closing decades of the 19th century, mission activities continued to expand. After 1906, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church transferred its work in Japan to the PCUSA Board of Foreign Missions. The mission's work was primarily educational and evangelistic. Because of the extensive system of Japanese hospitals and primary schools, the Board made no effort to c...

Scovel, Carl Wadsworth, 1866-1932.

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