Records, 1866-1958 (bulk: 1866-1923).

ArchivalResource

Records, 1866-1958 (bulk: 1866-1923).

This collection includes minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records and publications of the Woman's Executive Committee/Woman's Board of Home Missions, 1866-1924, and includes minutes of the continuing holding company until 1958.

25.00 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8357510

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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Bennett, M. Katharine (Mary Katharine), 1864-

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Woman's Executive Committee for Home Missions

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Woman's Board of Home Missions

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The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. organized the Woman's Executive Committee of Home Missions in 1877 to provide schools and teachers for the mission fields in the western and southwestern US. The committee supported missionaries among the Mormons in Utah and among the Native American and Spanish-speaking peoples of the southwest, later extending this work to Alaska, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Appalachians. The committee also published pamphlets, leaflets, a missionary magazine entitled Home ...