Ida Pruitt Papers, 1866-1967.

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Ida Pruitt Papers, 1866-1967.

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Author and social worker who was born in China to Baptist missionaries. Correspondence and photographs.

1 boxes (.25 linear feet).

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Pruitt, Ida

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Writer, educator, and social worker Ida Pruitt was born in China on December 2, 1888, the daughter of Southern Baptist missionaries Cicero Washington and Anna Seward Pruitt. She spent the first twelve years of her life in Hwanghsien, a village in Shantung province. She attended Cox College in College Park, Georgia (1906-1909), received a B.S. from Columbia University Teachers' College (1910) and studied social work in Boston and Philadelphia. Pruitt returned to China as teacher and principal of ...