Emily Susan Hartwell (

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: ''Hâ Īng-mī''; April 16, 1859 – October 2, 1951) was a

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educational

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, China under the American Board of Foreign Missions.

Life

Miss Emily S. Hartwell was the daughter of Lucy E. Stearns and

Charles Hartwell Charles Hartwell (; Pinyin: ''Xià Chálǐ''; Foochow Romanized: ''Hâ Chák-lī''; December 19, 1825 - January 30, 1905) was an American Board missionary to Foochow, China in the second half of the 19th century. Life and work Hartwell wa ...

(), who were the pioneering Congregational missionaries stationed in Foochow. She graduated from Wheaton College in 1883 and taught there before her mother died in Foochow and she returned as a missionary.Crouch, Archie R. (1989): ''Christianity in China: A Scholars' Guide to Resources in the Libraries and Archives of the United States'' p.171 She started a girls' school at Ponasang () and for 20 years she taught English at

Foochow College Foochow College was a college in Fuzhou, China. It had a long history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with American Christian missionaries who taught there. Charles Hartwell Charles Hartwell (; Pinyin: ''Xià Chálǐ''; Foo ...

(). When Foochow was inundated by a flood in 1900 Miss Hartwell organized relief work. She also founded an orphanage named the Christian Herald Fukien Industrial Homes () at Ado (). After the fall of the

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in 1911 she raised funds to aid the stranded and starving

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in Foochow. Other charitable institutions established by her included the Union Kindergarten Training School, the Christian Women's Industrial Institute, and the Dr. Cordelia A. Green Memorial Home.''Emily Hartwell, 92, Long a Missionary'', ''

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'', October 5, 1951, p.24 Miss Hartwell received the Order of Golden Grain from the president of the Fukian Provincial Government. She was evacuated from Foochow in 1937 during the Sino-Japanese War, and died in

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in 1951.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hartwell, Emily Susan 1859 births 1951 deaths Congregationalist missionaries in China Christian missionaries in Fujian Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni American expatriates in China American Congregationalist missionaries Female Christian missionaries