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...
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...
DescriptionYamate (山手), referred to in English as "The Bluff," was the foreigner's residential area from the Bakumatsu to Taisho periods. Initially a foreign settlement for the diplomats, missionaries also...
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...
DescriptionWilliam E. Grffis with his first science class at Kaisei Gakkō (開成学校) in 1872. Griffis's note at the top identifies one of his students as Komura Jutarō (小村寿太郎), or "Baron" and...
DescriptionEugene S. Booth is a Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary alumni. Booth became an Reformed Church missionary and in 1882 succeeded Mary E. Kidder as the president of the Ferris...
