Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast
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women-s-missionary-society-of-the-pacific-coast-161-11938751
title:
Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast
text:
The Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast of the Methodist Episcopal Church was founded on October 29, 1870 by Methodist Rev. Otis T. Gibson, with eleven women he recruited in August 1870, for the purpose of working among the slave girls in Chinatown, San Francisco, California. By the end of 1870, Rev. Gibson had erected the building of the "Chinese Mission Institute". In October 1871, the first woman, Jin Ho, was rescued from the bay where she had attempted suicide. She then worked in
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Methodist agency for women in San Francisco Chinatown
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Missionary_Society_of_the_Pacific_Coast
date created:
2007-07-05T20:48:18Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T08:32:34Z
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