Missionary journal
- Title:
- Missionary journal
- Creator:
- Aiken, Edward.
- Accession / Call Number:
- M 1966-017
- Object ID:
- M 1966-017
- Date:
- 1855-1857
- Physical Description:
- 2 vols.
- Scope and Content:
- Dr. Aiken was born in Amherst, NH. He studied theology at Andover (graduated 1855), and worked for the ABCFM, the foreign missions adjunct of the Congregational Church, in Syria until 1858. He graduated with an M.D. from Harvard in 1861, and practiced medicine in Fitzwilliam (1861-1865) and Amherst (1865-1883). For a time he was Professor of Materia Medica at the New England Female Medical College. In 1883 he agreed to assist in the cataloguing of the Stuart Library in New York City, and in 1884 returned to the Amherst, accepting a position in Concord to index the public records. Journal includes copies of letters to family, and a diary of travels in the Near East and work as a missionary in Beirut.
- Subjects:
- Aiken, Edward. , Missionaries. , Physicians New Hampshire.
- Locations:
- Syria.
- Level Description:
- Item
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