Background
Jehu Lewis Shuck was born on September 4, 1812 in Alexandria, then in the District of Columbia. His father died in 1816 and later his mother moved to Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, in what is now West Virginia.
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Jehu Lewis Shuck was born on September 4, 1812 in Alexandria, then in the District of Columbia. His father died in 1816 and later his mother moved to Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, in what is now West Virginia.
He studied privately and at the Lewisburg Academy. For several months in 1836 he was in Singapore studying Malay and Chinese.
He read law for a time, but, after a deep religious experience, decided to enter the ministry and was licensed to preach by the Lewisburg Baptist Church on May 13, 1832. He prepared for his calling at the Virginia Baptist Seminary in Richmond. It was while there, apparently, that he determined to be a missionary.
On September, 1835 he sailed from Boston under the American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions as a missionary to the Chinese. At that time Westerners - except a few Russians at Peking - were allowed in China only secretly or in the Portuguese colony of Macao and in a restricted district at Canton, so that it was uncertain where Shuck could settle permanently.
For several months in 1836 he was in Singapore studying Malay and Chinese, and in 1836 he removed to Macao. Here, with the exception of one fruitless effort to reach the island of Hainan and occasional visits to Canton and Hongkong, he remained until 1842, studying the language and, in time, preaching to the Chinese in private houses or on the streets. He and his wife were the first Baptist missionaries to reside in China.
His years at Macao were not altogether happy, for his first convert apostatized after a few months and he had misunderstandings with the board which supported him. In 1842 he removed to Hongkong, which had recently come into the possession of the British. There, within the next few years, he organized a church and shared in the organization of another, built three chapels, a mission house, and a school, and baptized several Chinese.
His wife died November 27, 1844, and several years later, 1852, a work she had prepared, Scenes in China; or, Sketches of the Country, Religion, and Customs of the Chinese, was published. In 1845 Shuck returned with his children to the United States, bringing a convert and a Chinese nurse with him. Here he spoke extensively on China. Transferring his connection to the newly formed Board of Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention, he returned to China in 1847 and after a short visit at Hongkong removed to Shanghai, where he had a share in establishing a mission of his board. In 1851 he again returned to the United States, this time to remain permanently.
Appointed by the Board of Domestic and Indian Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention to carry on work among the Chinese in California, he began a Chinese church in Sacramento. For at least part of the time he served as general secretary of his denomination in the state, and organized a number of churches and edited a paper. Resigning January 1, 1861, he removed to South Carolina, where he was pastor of churches at Blackville and Steel Creek. He died at Barnwell Court House, South Carolina.
Jehu Lewis Shuck and his wife were the first Baptist missionaries to reside in China. In Hongkong he organized a church, built three chapels, a mission house, and a school, and baptized several Chinese. He also began a Chinese church in Sacramento, served as general secretary of his denomination in California. He was the author of a number of tracts in Chinese, and in English of a volume published under the title Portfolio Chinensis (Macao, 1840).
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In his earlier years, at least, he was decidedly intolerant and was at times blunt in presenting his own convictions, especially to the non-Christians whom he met in the Far East.
On September 8, 1835, he was married to Henrietta Hall, who was then not quite eighteen years of age. His wife died November 27, 1844, and several years later, 1852, a work she had prepared, Scenes in China; or, Sketches of the Country, Religion, and Customs of the Chinese, was published.
In October 1846 he married Lizzie Sexton. In 1851 his second wife died.
On June 5, 1854, he married Anna L. Trotti.
