Sarah Clarke Oltmans Papers
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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Syria Mission
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Manzanar War Relocation Center
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Manzanar War Relocation Center was located in the Owens Valley in Central CA; the site was used by Paiute-Shoshone Indians for centuries until it became a Euro-American fruit-growing settlement, 1910-35; the US Army initially established the camp as the Owens Valley Reception Center under the management of the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), March-May 1942; on June 1, 1942, Manzanar was reconstituted as a War Relocation Authority (WRA) center; its peak population was 10,121, and the...
Oltmans, Sarah Clarke, 1889-1991
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Sarah Clarke Oltmans, missionary with the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1915-1934 and 1940-1954), engaged in educational work in Japan (1915-1934, 1940-1941, and 1947-1953) and Lebanon (1945-1947). In January 1934, Clarke resigned from the Board of Foreign Missions in order to marry Rev. Dr. Albert Oltmans (1854-1939) of the Reformed Church in America. They lived in Japan, and she continued to teach occasional English classes at Meij...
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...
