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Protestant missionaries in Japan

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The list Protestant missionaries in Japan includes Arnulf Solvoll, William Merrell Vories, Bernard Jean Bettelheim, Lettie Cowman and Leroy Lansing Janes. The list consists of 28 members and 7 sublists.

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Japan
Island country in East Asia
  • 1.

    Arnulf Solvoll
    Norwegian missionary
    Overview: Arnulf Solvoll (Chinese: 蘇超生, Pinyin: Sū Chāoshēng, born August 28, 1908, date of death unknown) was a Norwegian evangelist and missionary associated with the Pentecostal Movement in Norway. He has been ...
    Date of birth: 28 August 1908
    Age: 116
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    Norwegian Pentecostal missionaries 5T
    Protestant missionaries in Taiwan 8T
    Protestant missionaries in Korea 9T
  • 2.

    Leroy Lansing Janes
    American missionary
    Leroy Lansing Janes
    Overview: Leroy Lansing Janes (1838–1909) was an American educator, hired by Kumamoto Domain in early Meiji period Japan.
    Date of birth: 1838
    Date of death: 1909
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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    American Protestant missionaries 209T
    Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan 96T
    Missionary educators 145T
  • 3.

    Keisai Aoki
    Japanese missionary
    Overview: Keisai Aoki (青木恵哉, Aoki Keisai, April 8, 1893 – March 6, 1969) was a Japanese missionary who paved the way to the establishment of Hansen's disease (leprosy) sanatorium Kunigami-Airakuen, Okinawa, now ...
    Date of birth: 1893
    Date of death: 6 March 1969
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Activist
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    Japanese haiku poets 51T
    Japanese health activists 2T
    Japanese Protestant missionaries 7T
  • 4.

    Ruth Isabel Seabury
    American missionary
    Ruth Isabel Seabury
    Overview: Ruth Isabel Seabury, was born on June 2, 1892, in Bangor in the U.S. state of Maine. She is the eldest of five siblings born to George Edwin Seabury, an executive with Boston Edison Power, and Emma Agusta ...
    Date of birth: 2 June 1892
    Date of death: 30 July 1955
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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    American Protestant missionaries 209T
    Missionary educators 145T
    American Christian missionaries 472T
  • 5.

    Arthur T. F. Reynolds
    British missionary
    Overview: Arthur Reynolds (1909–2001) was a British Protestant Christian missionary in China (1933–1951) and Japan (1952–1970) under the auspices of the China Inland Mission, which later became the Overseas Mis ...
    Date of birth: 1909
    Date of death: 2001
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
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    Protestant missionaries in China 167T
    English Protestant missionaries 119T
    People educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School 20T
  • 6.

    William Merrell Vories
    American architect
    William Merrell Vories
    Overview: Merrell Vories Hitotsuyanagi (Mereru Hitotsuyanagi (一柳 米来留, Hitotsuyanagi Mereru); born William Merrell Vories; October 28, 1880 – May 7, 1964) was an educator, architect, entrepreneur, Christian lay ...
    Date of birth: 28 October 1880
    Date of death: 7 May 1964
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
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    American Protestant missionaries 209T
    20th-century American architects 1,474T
    Merrell Hitotsuyanagi buildings 3T
  • 7.

    Bernard Jean Bettelheim
    Hungarian missionary
    Bernard Jean Bettelheim
    Overview: Bernard Jean Bettelheim (1811, Pressburg - February 9, 1870) was a Christian missionary to Okinawa, the first Protestant missionary to be active there.
    Date of birth: 1811
    Date of death: 9 February 1870
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: Hungarian
    Occupation: Doctor
    Gender: Male
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    Clergy from Bratislava 14T
    People from Brookfield, Missouri 10T
    British Protestant missionaries 14T
  • 8.

    Guido Verbeck
    Dutch educator in Japan
    Guido Verbeck
    Overview: Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeck (born Verbeek) (23 January 1830 – 10 March 1898) was a Dutch political advisor, educator, and missionary active in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan. He was one of the most ...
    Date of birth: 28 January 1830
    Date of death: 10 May 1898
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Occupation: Educator
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    People with cholera 1T
    Dutch Protestant missionaries 28T
    Dutch Reformed Church missionaries 24T
  • 9.
    Clay MacCauley
    Overview: Clay MacCauley (1843 – 1925) was an American Civil War veteran, Unitarian minister, pioneering American missionary in Japan, author of several books, head of the Senshin Sakuin School for advanced learning ...
    Date of birth: 1843
    Date of death: 1925
    Age: 81 (age at death)
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    Pittsburgh Theological Seminary alumni 20T
    McCormick Theological Seminary alumni 27T
    American Unitarian clergy 74T
  • 10.

    Mary Hancock McLean
    Physician and missionary
    Mary Hancock McLean
    Overview: Mary Hancock McLean (28 February 1861 – 17 May 1930) was a physician and missionary. Born to Elijah McLean, a physician, and Mary Stafford, she enjoyed a privileged childhood with academic opportunities ...
    Date of birth: 28 February 1861
    Date of death: 17 May 1930
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Doctor
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    People from Washington, Missouri 15T
    Protestant missionaries in the United States 49T
    American Protestant missionaries 213T
  • 11.
    Overview: John Merle Davis (1875-1960) was an American missionary, who wrote as J. Merle Davis. He was a YMCA missionary in Japan, and an executive of the International Missionary Council (IMC).
    Date of birth: 1875
    Date of death: 1960
    Age: 84 (age at death)
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  • 12.
    Martha Cartmell
    Overview: Martha Julia Cartmell (1846 – March 20, 1945) was a Canadian Methodist/United Church missionary and educator in Japan. She founded the Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin school in 1884 which now includes Toyo Eiwa ...
    Date of birth: 1846
    Date of death: 20 March 1945
    Age: 98 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Educator
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  • 13.

    Masayoshi Oshikawa
    Japanese Christian evangelist (1850–1928)
    Masayoshi Oshikawa
    Overview: Masayoshi Oshikawa (押川方義; 1850–1928) was a Japanese evangelist, political activist and founder and first president of Tohoku Gakuin University.
    Date of birth: 1850
    Date of death: 1928
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Educator
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  • 14.

    David Bowman Schneder
    American missionary educator
    Overview: David Bowman Schneder (March 23, 1857 – October 5, 1938) was an American missionary educator in Japan.
    Date of birth: 23 March 1857
    Date of death: 5 October 1938
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Occupation: Educator
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  • 15.

    Duane B. Simmons
    American physician, educator and lay Christian missionary
    Overview: Duane B. Simmons, MD (August 13, 1832 – February 19, 1889) was an American physician, educator and lay Christian missionary. Along with James Curtis Hepburn he is known as one of the pioneers of modern ...
    Date of birth: 13 August 1832
    Date of death: 19 February 1889
    Age: 56 (age at death)
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  • 16.

    Michael Oh
    American missionary
    Overview: Michael Young-Suk Oh (born 19 April 1971) is the Executive Director/CEO of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.
    Date of birth: 19 April 1971
    Age: 53
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    American Protestant missionaries 209T
    Trinity Evangelical Divinity School alumni 44T
    American people of Korean descent 573T
  • 17.

    Ernest A. Kilbourne
    American missionary
    Ernest A. Kilbourne
    Overview: Ernest A. Kilbourne (March 13, 1865 – April 13, 1928) was a missionary evangelist to Japan. He is best known for being a cofounder of the Oriental Missionary Society (now One Mission Society; formerly ...
    Date of birth: 13 March 1865
    Date of death: 13 April 1928
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
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  • 18.

    Lettie Cowman
    Writer and missionary
    Lettie Cowman
    Overview: Lettie Burd Cowman (March 3, 1870 – April 17, 1960), also known as L.B. Cowman, was an American writer and author of the devotional books Streams in the Desert and Springs in the Valley. Cowman ...
    Date of birth: 3 March 1870
    Date of death: 7 April 1960
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
    American Protestant missionaries 209T
    20th-century American women writers 5,363T
  • 19.

    Paget Wilkes
    Christian missionary
    Paget Wilkes
    Overview: Alpheus Paget Wilkes (19 January 1871 – 5 October 1934) was an English evangelical Christian missionary to Japan who was one of the founders of the Japan Evangelistic Band in 1903. In addition to extensive ...
    Date of birth: 19 January 1871
    Date of death: 5 October 1934
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
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    People from Walsingham 9T
    English Protestant missionaries 119T
    People educated at Bedford School 495T
  • 20.

    Samuel Robbins Brown
    American missionary to China and Japan
    Samuel Robbins Brown
    Overview: Rev. Samuel Robbins Brown D.D. (June 16, 1810 – June 20, 1880) was an American missionary to China and Japan with the Reformed Church in America.
    Date of birth: 1810
    Date of death: 1880
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
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    19th-century American translators 83T
    People from Monson, Massachusetts 15T
    Yale College alumni 1,138T
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