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Repository

Archives & Special Collections

William Howard Doane Library

Denison University

P.O.Box L

Granville OH 43023

Contact

Heather Lyle

University Archivist & Head of Special Collections

lyleh@denison.edu

740-587-6399

Denominational affiliation (historic or current)

American Baptist Church

URL



Cited in Crouch Christianity in China, 1989

OH-155

Source of information



CONSORT catalog -

Date data gathered

Jan 23, 2006; updated July 18, 2006

General Collection

name of collection

Baptist collection

audio-visual

Dedicated American [motion picture] : The story of Gordon Seagrave. [S.l.] : Columbia Broadcasting System, 1960. This film, an Armstrong Circle Theater Presentation, tells the story of Dr. Seagrave and his hospital in Burma. Narrated by Walter Cronkite.

See it now [motion picture] : Dr. Gordon Seagrave. [S.l.] : Columbia Broadcasting System, [195-?]. Dr. Gordon Seagrave, a doctor who ran a hospital in Burma which was located near China's border, is interviewed by Paul Nivan from "See It Now" program of CBS-TV 1956-57.

biographical material

Summer Scholar Project. Preaching a Creed and Fulfilling a Need: American Women Missionaries 1900-1950, and the Mission Work of Ruth Mather.

Honors Project, A Portrait of Love [Dr. Gordon Seagrave].

serials,

Shwe Wa, Maung. Burma Baptist chronicle.Rangoon, Board of Publications, Burma Baptist Convention, 1963. [Judson sesquicentennial ed.]

Collection 1

name of collection

Mary Kirby Berry Papers

10LP B2

background

Mary Kirby Berry. Dension University class of 1938. Medical missionary in Gauhati and Jorhat Assam 1945 -1957

materials

Biographical material, including the 369 page “Life of Dr. Mary Ella Kirby Berry, Assam, India. Medical Missionary.” Her sister edited this collection of diaries, letters and poems.

Collection 2

name of collection

Zelma Graham

P&B file

background

Background: Zelma Snyder Graham. Denison University class of 1929. Missionary to Burma with husband. Operated USIA library in Rangoon, Burma, after World War II.

materials

1 newspaper article.

Collection 3

name of collection

Lewis Hicks

P&B file

background

Lewis Ezra Hicks. Denison University class of 1868. Natural History faculty at Denison University 1870-1884. President of Rangoon Baptist College, Burma, 1905-1911.

materials

Biographical material.

Collection 4

name of collection

Helen Hunt

P&B file

background

Helen Hunt. Denison University class of 1910. Daughter of Denison University president Emory Hunt. Dean of Women at Judson College, Rangoon, Burma 1919-1951.

materials

Information related to her donation of Burmese textiles to Denison University’s art gallery.

Collection 5

name of collection

Chester Klein

P&B file

background

Chester Leroy Klein. Denison University class of 1920. Missionary serving with the Karen people of Burma 1923-1942.

materials

Biographical material.

Collection 6

name of collection

Asher Mather Papers

2P M3

background

Asher King Mather. Denison University class of 1910. Missionary in Assam, India 1914-1920. Denison University registrar 1920-1926. Brother of Kirtley Mather.

extent

.25 cu. ft.

materials

Biographical material; India-related memorabilia; scrapbook; correspondence with Kirtley Mather; 2 short stories by Asher Mather.

Collection 7

name of collection

Ruth Mather Papers

10LP M1-M2

background

Ruth Mather. Denison University Class of 1912. Missionary to Burma and China. Operated the School of Mothercraft in Huchow, and taught English in Burma 1952-1957. Sister of Kirtley Mather.

extent

.25 cu.ft.

materials

Biographical material; correspondence with family, plus general correspondence; photographs taken in Burma, China, and U.S.; typescript of “History of the Moulmein Christian Hospital” by Martha Gifford.

Collection 8

name of collection

Gordon Seagrave Papers

10LP S1

background

Gordon Stifler Seagrave. Denison University class of 1917. Medical missionary to Burma, for more than 40 years, ending with his death in 1965. He ran the hospital and its nursing school in Namkham.

extent

.25 cu. ft.

materials

Biographical material, including “Adventure in Burma,” a comic book tale of Seagrave’s hospital. Carbon typescript of Seagrave’s book, The Burma Surgeon Returns.

His papers mention sisters Grace Seagrave and Rachel Seagrave, and son, Wesley, all Denison graduates who served in Burma.

Collection 9

name of collection

Frances Tuttle

P&B file

background

Frances Davidson Tuttle. Attended Denison University (Shepardson College) Conservatory of Music 1894-1896. Missionary to Assam, India 1901-1941, with husband Adoniram Judson Tuttle, Denison University class of 1896.

materials

Correspondence with her family re: school activities at Denison University.

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