Charles Edwin Bradt papers, 1905 - 1916.

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Charles Edwin Bradt papers, 1905 - 1916.

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The collection consists of 11 bound journals and monthly reports kept by Bradt while he was field secretary for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Diary entries typically consist of the date, meditation, place where Bradt was located and information about what he did that day (e.g. addresses given, conferences attended, miles traveled, expenditures, subscriptions received, etc). Monthly reports provide the same kind of information, summarized for the entire month, as well as providing remarks. Also in volumes are attached various printed materials such as pamphlets and programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings and other such materials related to Bradt's work or more generally to missionary work or the Presbyterian Church.

2 cubic feet (2 boxes).

Kansas State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8043469

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Bradt, Charles Edwin, 1863?-1922

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Charles Edwin Bradt was born 7 November 1863 in LaPorte, Indiana. When he was six his mother died, and his father Isaac remarried. In 1870 the family traveled via covered wagon from Michigan to Nebraska, where Charles remained with his grandparents. His father died and his stepmother remarried and moved away, leaving him behind in Nebraska. Charles worked in a print shop and served as Pastor for the 2nd Presbyterian Church of Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1896 he moved to Wichita, Kansas to take over th...

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...