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William Ashmore was born on December 25, 1824 in Putnam, Ohio, United States to Samuel and Nancy Ashmore.
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William Ashmore was born on December 25, 1824 in Putnam, Ohio, United States to Samuel and Nancy Ashmore.
He was educated in the local schools, in Granville College (now Denison University), from which he received the B. A. degree in 1845, and in the Western Baptist Theological Institute in Covington, Ky.
Upon graduation from the seminary in 1848 he entered upon a pastorate in Hamilton, Ohio.
In 1849 he received appointment to the China Mission, toward which he set out the following year with his wife, Martha Ann Sanderson. At that time the Mission's chief work for the Chinese was conducted at Bangkok, Siam. Ashmore assumed charge of the Chinese department of the Siam Mission, giving his chief attention to learning Chinese and to personal evangelism.
At the end of 1858 in Hongkong he planned the opening of a station in Swatow. Another, however, actually began the work, as Ashmore was forced to return to America by illness. At home he recovered his health.
Upon his return to China, the China war was over and Swatow open. He took up his work at the new station which in time became the center of the South China Mission. In 1872 upon the death of Mr. Johnson, who had established the station, Swatow passed into the care of Ashmore. Having at first preferred evangelism as "the more scriptural kind of labor, " he became increasingly aware of the need of schools to train a Chinese ministry. To this end he conducted a "theological class, " which led to the establishment in 1892 of the Biblical Training School for Men, which ultimately became the Ashmore Seminary in 1905.
Ashmore was often interrupted in his direct missionary work. At home in 1875-76 for his wife's sake, he rendered effective service through articles in the Journal and Messenger and addresses before the churches. For three years from 1881 he suffered from partial blindness.
At home again in 1885 for the health of his wife, who died despite the furlough, he was elected home secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union. He actually served in this capacity only during the year 1889, after a further stay in Swatow. From 1890 he not only exercised general oversight of Swatow but was charged by the executive committee at home with inspection of other fields as well.
During a visit to Japan he married Mrs. Charlotte A. Brown of that Mission. With one year in America delivering masterly addresses at church gatherings, the next in China at the Swatow Bible Training School, again at home in 1899, he made his last trip to the East with the understanding that he would shortly withdraw from the foreign field and "devote the remainder of his days to service among the home churches. " Coming home in 1903 he located in Wollaston, Massachussets, and for a time wrote constantly for the Journal and Messenger.
His eightieth birthday was celebrated by his Board with a service in Tremont Temple and by himself with a gift, $10, 000 in value, to the Swatow mission. By this gift the seminary which bears his name became possible. He continued its official head until his death.
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Ashmore was married twice. First he was married to Martha Ann Sanderson; after her death he married Eliza Dunlevy.