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A Japanese and English Dictionary with an English and Japanese Index (English and Japanese Edition)
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James Curtis Hepburn was an American physician, translator, and educator. He was one of the first American missionaries in Japan.
Background
James Hepburn was born on March 13, 1815, in Milton, Pennsylvania, United States, came of Scotch-Irish stock on the side of his father, Samuel Hepburn, and of English stock on that of his mother, Ann Clay. His great-grandfather, Samuel Hepburn, had emigrated from Belfast to Pennsylvania in 1773. His father was practising law.
Education
Graduating from the College of New Jersey at Princeton in 1832, James received the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836.
Career
In 1834 James Hepburn had joined the Presbyterian church, and in March he sailed with his wife for Singapore to become a medical missionary under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. After serving at Singapore and in Amoy (1843 - 1845), they returned to the United States, where Hepburn practised his profession in New York City for thirteen years.
Immediately after the opening of Japan to American residents in 1859, Hepburn and his wife sailed, under commission of the Presbyterian Board, for Kanagawa, at which port they arrived October 18, 1859. They were among the earliest of American missionaries in Japan. Hepburn opened a dispensary, where by 1869 he was ministering from thirty to fifty patients daily. Here he carried on a medical training class for young men. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Meiji Gakuin, a boys’ school in Tokyo; held the chair of physiology and hygiene there for some years; and raised the money to build a dormitory, which was named Hepburn Hall. He served often as mediator between the mercantile and the missionary elements in the foreign population of Yokohama.
Hepburn had a share in the organization of the Union Church (for foreign residents) and the Shiloh Church (for Japanese). The latter was built chiefly through the gifts of his personal friends in America. Mrs. Hepburn began in 1863 a class for girls which was one of the first steps ever taken toward the education of Japanese women. In 1867 Hepburn’s English-Japanese dictionary, a pioneer work in its field, was issued from the press of the American Presbyterian Mission at Shanghai, and in 1891 he published a Bible dictionary. The profits from his books were used for the Shiloh Church in Yokohama and the Meiji Gakuin in Tokyo. In 1892, after a generation of service, during which their home had been a center of hospitality for both Japanese and foreigners, the Hepburns returned to the United States, where, surviving his wife by several years, Hepburn lived quietly in East Orange, New Jersey, until his death at the age of ninety-six.