Woman's Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands was organized in 1861 with its headquarters at 41 Bible House, Astor Place, New York City. The first meeting called to consider organizing a society was gathered in a private parlor in New York City on January 9, 1861, and addressed by a returned missionary from Burma. At a subsequent meeting on January l0, the organization was effected, with Sarah Platt Doremus as president.[1] The society's object was to "send out and maintain single women as Bible-readers and teachers, and to raise up native female laborers in heathen lands".[2]
China.
Work began in China in 1869 with the opening of a girl's boarding school in Peking. This school merged with the Bridgman Memorial School in Shanghai in 1880. Dr. Elizabeth Reifsnyder established the Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai in 1891, which later sponsored the Women's Christian Medical College. The Misses Mary J. and Elizabeth Irvine began a Bible Training School in Shanghai also. Work continued in China until the Communist take-over following World War II, when all missionaries were evacuated.
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Brief Description
Records of the Woman's Union Missionary Society, known after 1972 as United Fellowship For Christian Service. Founded in 1860 by Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus, it was intended as a vehicle for sending single women as missionaries to women in closed societies (and therefore unreachable by male missionaries) in Asia. The materials consist of correspondence, reports, personnel files, legal documents, financial files, scrapbooks, and photographs, documenting their medical and educational work in Burma, China, India, Pakistan, and Japan. About 1975 the organization dissolved due to financial difficulties, and became part of Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. For more information, please see guide.
