DescriptionMary Kidder left the United States in 1869 and became the first unmarried female missionary to settle in Japan. She was initially hired by the government as an English teacher; however, a year after...
DescriptionThe oldest origin of Meiji Gakuin was a private English school started by Clara Maria Leete Hepburn, the wife of James C. Hepburn, in 1863. The school operated out of their home and sanatorium in...
DescriptionPortrait of James Curtis Hepburn. Hepburn was a missionary, physician, educator, and translator who was sent by the Presbyterian Church as a medical missionary to Yokohama in 1859. He is known for...
DescriptionThe American Mission Home was founded in Yokohama in August 1871 by Mary Pruyn, Julia Crosby, and Louise Pierson as a home and school for mixed-raced children of Japanese women and foreign men. It...
DescriptionThe Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery was established in 1859 as a burial ground for foreigners who died in Japan. It is located in Yamate (山手; also known as "The Bluff"), overlooking the ocean....
DescriptionEugene C. Duryee, a New Jersey native, was born in Cherry Hill New Jersey in 1901 and graduated from Rutgers College in 1923. He continued his studies at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut and...
DescriptionSamuel R. Brown was one of the first three Reformed Church missionaries sent to Japan in 1859. first taught at the Yokohama Academy (Eigakusho, 英学所), a language school for customs officials and...
DescriptionHoward Harris was the eleventh male missionary sent to Japan by the RCA. Harris was born in Belleville, New Jersey in 1848, served in the civil war as a flag bearer, graduated from Rutgers in 1873....
DescriptionLuman J. Shafer attended Rutgers College from 1905 to 1909. Upon graduation he continued his studies at the New Burnswick Theology School and graduated in 1912. After graduating from the Theological...
