Elizabeth Brewster

1862 (age 93)

London, Ohio , United States

She was appointed a Chinese missionary at the age of 22. The couple established headquarters in Hinghwa Prefecture (today Putian) as the first foreign missionaries there. Mistress had carried on as district superintendent after her husband"s death in 1916. In 1934, she was officially retired by the Methodist Board of Missions, but she continued to serve until the assumption of power by the Communists, when she returned to the United States. Her mission founded schools, an orphanage, and a hospital, and worked on the improvement of roads and other development projects. She also wrote many religious and school texts in the Hinghwa language, and served as editor of The Revivalist, and started a women"s Bible movement that spread to other parts of Asia. She died on March 17, 1955, in Cincinnati, at age 93.

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Background

Elizabeth Fisher was born in London, Ohio.

Career

She was appointed a Chinese missionary at the age of 22. The couple established headquarters in Hinghwa Prefecture (today Putian) as the first foreign missionaries there. Mistress had carried on as district superintendent after her husband"s death in 1916.

In 1934, she was officially retired by the Methodist Board of Missions, but she continued to serve until the assumption of power by the Communists, when she returned to the United States.

Her mission founded schools, an orphanage, and a hospital, and worked on the improvement of roads and other development projects. She also wrote many religious and school texts in the Hinghwa language, and served as editor of The Revivalist, and started a women"s Bible movement that spread to other parts of Asia.

She died on March 17, 1955, in Cincinnati, at age 93.

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