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Randolph, 1864.TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a profile of Eliza Jane Nicholson, a small town poet who became the first woman publisher of a major metropolitan newspaper. The Pioneer of American Missions in China:The Life And Labors Of Elijah Coleman Bridgman. Robert’s article from the BDCM appears also in the online Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity.īridgman, Eliza J. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997. American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice. Bridgman (1801-1861), America’s First Missionary to China. Bridgman.” In The Chinese Recorder 4 (March 1872): 261-3. SecondaryĪnnual Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Presented at the Meeting held at Cleveland, Ohio, October 1-3, 1861. New Haven, CT: Yale Divinity School Library, 1998.
Glimpses of Canton: The Diary of Elijah C. _ (ed.) The Pioneer of American Missions in China:The Life And Labors Of Elijah Coleman Bridgman. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1853. Daughters of China or Sketches of Domestic Life in the Celestial Empire. Digital SecondaryĪnnual Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Presented at the Meeting held at Cleveland, Ohio, October 1-3, 1861. Bibliography Digital Primaryīridgman, Eliza Jane. Anderson, by permission of Macmillan Reference USA, New York, NY. This article is reprinted from Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, Macmillan Reference USA, copyright © 1998 Gerald H.
Anderson (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1998), 90. Robert, “Bridgman, Eliza Jane (Gillett),” in Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, ed. After returning to Shanghai to help open a new school, she died and was buried beside her husband.ĭana L. Bridgman was widely acknowledged to be an exceptional teacher, and she gave money liberally to Congregational missions in China. There she opened Bridgman Academy, the predecessor to the Woman’s College of Yenching University. After a furlough in America during which she was run over by a sled, she resumed work in Peking in 1864. Her successful school work continued until 1862, when her health broke following the death of her husband. They adopted two small girls, and after the Bridgmans had transferred to Shanghai, Eliza began a girls’ school that became the first Protestant school for girls there. They married, she transferred to the Congregational Church, and the Bridgmans began work in Canton. She immediately met Elijah Coleman Bridgman of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, who believed her to be God’s answer to his prayers for a wife. Appointed a missionary teacher, she sailed to China in 1844.
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After the death of her widowed mother, she was free to apply to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Bridgman, Eliza Jane (1805-1871) Pioneer educational missionary in ChinaĪ school principal, Gillett had wanted to be a missionary since childhood.
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