Congregationalist Missionaries - William Scott Ament, Robert Clark Morgan, Eric Liddell, Samuel Dyer, David Belden Lyman, Dwight Baldwin (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: William Scott Ament, Robert Clark Morgan, Eric Liddell, Samuel Dyer, David Belden Lyman, Dwight Baldwin, Lorrin Andrews, John Davis Paris, Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jonathan Smith Green, Aaron Buzacott, Reuben Gaylord, Abner Wilcox, George H. Atkinson, Edward Stallybrass, William Milne, Hiram Bingham I, Griffith John, Sheldon Dibble, Harvey L. Clark, Walter Henry Medhurst, Asa and Lucy Goodale Thurston, John Williams, Hedley Bunton, Robert Moffat, William McElwee Miller, John Philip, Titus Coan, John Paterson, David Griffiths, Dauphin William Osgood, Ainsworth Blunt, Lorenzo Lyons, Cyrus Hamlin, Joseph Ketley, Richard Knill, Hiram Bingham II, Aaron Bancroft, Harrison Gray Otis Dwight, John Smith Moffat, George B. Hitchcock, William Swan, Henry Otis Dwight, Jennie Pond Atwater. Excerpt: William Scott Ament (Chinese Name: Mei Wei Liang) (born 14 September 1851; died 6 January 1909 in San Francisco, California) was a missionary to China for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) from 1877, and was known as the "Father of Christian Endeavor in China." Ament became prominent as a result of his reported heroism during the Boxer Uprising and controversial in its aftermath because of the personal attacks on him by American writer Mark Twain for his collection of punitive indemnities from north China villages. William Scott Ament, ca. 1905 William Scott Ament was born of Dutch and French Huguenot stock on 14 September 1851 in Owosso, Michigan, the eldest son of Winfield Scott Ament (born ca. 1811-1865), an ironworker, and Emily Hammond Ament (born 3 May 1818; married 4 September 1848; died April 1908 in Oberlin, Ohio), and the younger brother of Claribel Ament Leggat (born c. 1850 in Owosso, Michigan; died 1881 in Butte, Montana). At the age of twelve, Will Ament became a member of the Congregat...