Background
Maclay, Robert Samuel was born on February 7, 1824 in Concord, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert and Arabella (Erwin) Maclay.
Maclay, Robert Samuel was born on February 7, 1824 in Concord, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert and Arabella (Erwin) Maclay.
Graduate Dickinson College, 1845, Doctor of Divinity, 1861. Entered ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, 1846. Sailed as missionary to Foochow, China, October 13, 1847.
Member of committee which translated New Testament into Foochow dialect. Superintendent and treasurer Foochow mission, 1852-1872. Transferred to Japan and appointed superintendent and treasurer Japan mission, 1872.
Member committee which translated New Testament into Japanese.
Delegate from Japan, Ecumenical Methodist Conference, London, 1881. Aided in founding Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow, 1881.
Went to of Korea, 1884, and procured King’s permission to commence work of Christian missions in of Korea. Aided in establishing, 1883 (president, 1883-1887), Anglo-Japanese College, and, 1884 (dean 1884-1887), Philander Smith Biblical Institute, both at Tokyo, Japan.
Ministerial delegate from Japan to general conference Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, 1888.
Dean Maclay College of Theology, San Fernando, California, 1888-1893. Author: Life Among the Chinese, 1861. Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Dialect of Foochow (with Review Creative Commons Baldwin, Doctor of Divinity), 1871.
Wrote sketch of Japan Mechanical Engineering Mission, in Reid’s History of Methodist Missions.
“Shintooism,” in Reid’s “Doomed Religions,” published 1882. Address: San Fernando, California.
Member of committee which translated New Testament into Foochow dialect. Member committee which translated New Testament into Japanese.
Married Henrietta Caroline Sperry, July 10, 1850. Married second, Sarah Ann Barr, June 6, 1882.