Women missionaries--United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Hilliard Family Letters
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS 00072
Content Description
About 80 letters and a small diary of the family of Pastor Edward Hilliard, missionaries to the Tonga in the South Pacific, Melbourne, Australia, Tazmania, and Bangalore, India. The Hilliards were the first Seventh Day Adventist missionaries to the island of Tongo in 1895. Edward and his wife built a home and established a school while there. They also brought two Tongan boys into their home to train them to become future missionaries. The letters focus on the teaching the family does as...
Dates:
1882 - 1937
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Helen L. Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.305
Scope and Contents
Papers of Helen L. Johnson, circa 1925-1940, covering her activities with the Methodist Episcopal Church Woman's Home Missionary Society. Materials include letters addressed to Johnson, photographs, programs, fliers, prayers and religious songs and other ephemera of a religious nature. Geographic areas covered include Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and New York State.
Dates:
1900-1982; Majority of material found in 1925-1940
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 L48
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, Presbyterian clergyman relating to his theological studies at Andover, Massachusetts and New Haven, Connecticut and his ministry at Waterbury and Bristol, Connecticut, Charlotte, North Carolina and Warrenton and Petersburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence and accounts, 1835-1838, with Turner & Hughes, booksellers in Raleigh, North Carolina. Includes correspondence with his wife Elizabeth M. Peabody Leavenworth and a letter, 1832,...
Dates:
1825-1850
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Lyla Sivesind Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 00722
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1938-1958, of Lyla Sivesind of Minnesota. Sivesind went on four separate missionary trips: in 1938 to France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway; in 1940 to Hawaii and locations in Asia; in 1948 to Egypt and Italy; and her final trip is to Italy and Israel.
Dates:
1938-1958
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center