tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084829149205774454.post6576136680976861911..comments2023-05-09T10:24:12.076-04:00Comments on Regions Beyond: Two Hundred Years of Gospel Missions in ChinaRegions Beyondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848291224494347422noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084829149205774454.post-47092544084253497402020-09-15T03:25:32.327-04:002020-09-15T03:25:32.327-04:00Hello,
I've just come across a packet of lett...Hello,<br /><br />I've just come across a packet of letters from Susie Burdick while she was in Shanghai from about 1900 to 1920. Would like to know more about her mission there and how she got started. I'm also trying to figure out her genealogical link to my Sherman/Chapin/Barney family in the area. She wrote to "Cousin Emily" Barney (1873-1965) and "Cousin Mary" (wife of Alvin Chapin Barney, 1833-1910).<br /><br />Allan GrovesLeftyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039130255758238653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084829149205774454.post-74700601932526996032017-01-05T14:20:20.093-05:002017-01-05T14:20:20.093-05:00Thanks Ron for this blog. Our family just finishe...Thanks Ron for this blog. Our family just finished reading the YWAM biography of Hudson Taylor, which prompted my interest in finding out more about SDB missionary work in China. I knew of Dr. Crandall and Dr. Palmborg's work from Sabbath Recorder articles and talking with SDB historian. I will enjoy reading your blog. Margot Harrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084829149205774454.post-24141560529972331202011-06-02T14:42:29.859-04:002011-06-02T14:42:29.859-04:00it is pretty impressive that someone can start fro...it is pretty impressive that someone can start from the ground and make a dictionary.Buying Viagrahttp://www.xlpharmacy.com/viagra/buy.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084829149205774454.post-33988387864302105702010-06-15T15:37:40.945-04:002010-06-15T15:37:40.945-04:00Catherine Try these-perhaps on free Inter-Library ...Catherine Try these-perhaps on free Inter-Library loan:<br />Broomhall, Marshall, The Jubilee Story of the China Inland Mission, London: C.I.M., 1915.<br />Broomhall, Marshall, ed., By Love Compelled, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936.<br />Broomhall, Marshall, Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission; With a Record of the Perils and Sufferings of Some Who Escaped, London: Morgan & Scott, 1901<br />Broomhall, A. J., Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, 7 volumes (last 3 volumes woud have more the end of the 19th century).<br />Broomhall, A. J., The Shaping of Modern China: Hudson Taylor's Life and Legacy, 2 (vol 2): 1868-1990, Carlisle, England: Piquant editions, 2005.<br />Hope you find something<br />By God's grace, <br />Ron DavisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084829149205774454.post-20333011841174363892010-06-15T14:40:19.559-04:002010-06-15T14:40:19.559-04:00I'm researching my great and uncle, William Fy...I'm researching my great and uncle, William Fyfe Laughton and Agnes Laughton. They were missionaries in the China Inland Mission in 1885. I found their names in Hudson Taylor's book. They were married in Shanghai Cathedral and had four children--all born in China. They fled during the Boxer Rebellion and returned to Glasgow, Scotland. How can I find more information on their years in China? Thank you for your help.<br /><br />Catherine RehartCatherine Rehartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084829149205774454.post-14794642927139238282009-04-10T23:11:00.000-04:002009-04-10T23:11:00.000-04:00Yes, your 2nd great aunt, Ellen Francis Swinney, M...Yes, your 2nd great aunt, Ellen Francis Swinney, M. D., was a great lady and devoted Christian, and served as a medical missionary to China for 12 years (1883-1895). She was from Shiloh, New Jersey, and then Smyrna, Delaware. (My mother was from Shiloh, and I was born several miles away in Bridgeton, the county seat of the same county, Cumberland County. Shiloh still has one of the biggest Seventh Day Baptist churches, though only a small town. I have many relatives there. She must have gone to that church too.<BR/>She sailed from New York Nov. 3, 1883 to San Francisco, and left San Francisco Nov. 7, 1883 on the steamer, "City of Tokio", and arrived at Shanghai Dec. 7, 1883. She headed up the Seventh Day Baptist medical mission in China for a time and also served as a Sabbath school Superintendent for the S.D.B. Church of Shanghai, that had about 100 members. The hospital was built in 1884 for $600. In 1885 she had 8,122 patient visits for the year, 6,966 of which were paying patients. She had a bout with fever and because she had no assistant yet, the hospital had to be closed for 2 months. Later, in China she became very ill with influenza, which went into pneumonia, and she almost died. She needed a surgery there, perhaps to drain off an effusion from the infection. Tuberculosis was common there then, so she may have had that, but I am merely speculating about that. She then returned home accompanied by Susie Burdick, another SDB missionary, sailing into San Francisco to recuperate and to help her aging mother. She stayed with her mother and with her brother, Dr. C. O. Swinney, both in Smyrna, Delaware, after resting for a week or two in Oakland, CA and Chicago. <BR/>For the record she was born September 25, 1840, and died November 14, 1900. She left almost $400 in her will for Alfred University,in western New York, then a Seventh Day Baptist school. She and her brother, Lucus R. Swinney, who later became a minister, were previosly employed to teach at a school near Quincy, Pennsylvania, where ther was a German Seventh day Baptist Church. General Robert E. Lees on the way to Gettysburg, with his army, went through Quincy, and the school had to be suspended for a time. This would have been before Ellen had become a doctor or had gone to China.<BR/> Hope this helps a lot with your geneology research. Have two books and a booklet om this information. Have 2 copies of the booklet, and the booklet has a picture of Dr Swinney, so you might contact me if you would like the booklet at: rcdavis16@sbcglobal.netRon Davishttp://regionsbeyond.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084829149205774454.post-70421260259688561922009-03-26T21:17:00.000-04:002009-03-26T21:17:00.000-04:00Hi -- you helped me to find a huge geneological li...Hi -- you helped me to find a huge geneological link to my "2nd Great Grand Aunt": Dr. Ella (Ellen) Swinney, a Baptist medical missionary who opened a hospital in Shanghai in the late 19th century. From my records, she was the first homeopathic physician sent from the US. I have recently taken up tracing my family tree via software programs, and I was stuck on "Ellen" and was not sure if she was the physician who was my grandmother's great aunt. My parents have trunks full of Ella's treasures, so I'm inspired to go through them. Your blog on Google opened this up for me -- a huge THANK YOU!! She apparently was next recorded as being in a hospital for lung infections in 1900 in Pennsylvania.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com