Guide to the Mary Margaret Moninger Papers

Descriptive Summary

Title

Mary Margaret Moninger Papers

Inclusive Dates

1915-1941, n.d.

Call Number

RG 230

Creator(s)

Moninger, Mary Margaret, 1891-1950.

Quantity

1.50 cubic feet

Language

Some materials in Chinese

Restrictions on Access

Collection open for research

Digital Content

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Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Biographical Note

Mary Margaret Moninger was born in Marshaltown, Iowa in 1891. After graduating from Grinell College in 1913 she taught high school until her appointment to the PCUSA's Hainan mission in 1915. After spending a year in language studies, Moninger was appointed as teacher and later principal of the Kachek Daughters‚Äô School. In 1919 she was appointed for a year as acting principal of Pitkin School in Kiungchow. In 1922 she earned her Masters degree from Grinell College. Moninger then returned to Kachek and remained until 1926 when she was appointed business agent and treasurer for a year for the mission at Hoichow. During that period she and the other staff were refugees for six weeks at Haiphong and on the ship President Taft. By 1929 Moninger was transferred to Nodoa where she taught and evangelized. In 1930 she returned to Kachek and continued her evangelistic work until 1935 when she was once again transferred to teach at Pitkin School at Kiungchow. In 1939, Moninger was reappointed the Mission Business Agent and continued those duties until her retirement in 1942.

While serving in Hainan, Moninger also acted as correspondent for the Hongkong Daily Press, (1933-1935) edited the Hainan newsletter (1917-1921;1929-1935), wrote a dictionary of the Hainanese language and published several articles and monographs. She also acted as a member at large for the China Council in 1924 and 1926.

Collection Overview

The collection consists largely of correspondence written by Moninger to her family while she was in Hainan. There are also stories and verse by Moninger, clippings from Iowa newspapers and church periodicals (letters and articles of Moninger), publications she edited articles or that she and F. A. McClure published in scientific journals and pamphlets re Hainan. A small number of photographs which depict people and places in Hainan. Some broadsides are in Chinese. Six manuscripts of Moninger detail her experiences in China including the Japanese occupation and her repatriation.

Organization and Arrangement

SERIES I: Correspondence, 1915-1942 Box 1 Folders 2-46b

SERIES II: Photographs, c.1915-1941 Box 1 Folder 47

SERIES III: Stories and Verse, 1916, Box 1 Folder 48
1923-1925, n.d.

SERIES IV: Clippings, 1916-1927, 1941 Box 1 Folders 49-54

SERIES V: Publications, 1919-1934 Box 1 Folders 55-57

SERIES VI: Chinese Broadsides, n.d. Box 1 Folder 58

SERIES VII: Manuscripts Box 2 Folders 1-7

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Catalog Headings

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Corporate Subject

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Hainan Mission.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Missions China Educational work.

Pitkin School (Qiongzhou fu, China)

Kachek Daughters' School (Qionghai Xian, China)

Title Subject

Hongkong daily press (Hong Kong : Newspaper)

Topical Subject

Presbyterian Church Missions China.

Education China Ch‘iung-hai hsien.

Education China Qiongzhou fu.

Education China Hai-chou (Hainan Province)

Education China Tan-hsien.

Newsletters China.

English newspapers--China--Hong Kong.

Chinese language Dictionaries.

Genre-form

Clippings. aat

Photographs. aat

Newsletters. aat

Newspapers. aat

Poetry. aat

Stories. aat

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description

		SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1915-1942

1	2	M. M. Moninger, Aug-Sept 1915
	3	Oct-Dec 1915
	4	Jan-Apr 1916
	5	May-Aug 1916
	6	Sept-Dec 1916
	7	Jan-May 1917
	8	Jun-Sept 1917
	9	Oct-Dec 1917
	10	Jan-Apr 1918
	11	May-Aug 1918
	12	Sep-Dec 1918
	13	Jan-Jun 1919
	14	July-Dec 1919
	15	Jan-Apr 1920
	16	May-Sept 1920
	17	Oct-Dec 1920
	18	Jan-Apr 1921
	19	May-Dec 1921
	20	1922
	21	Jan-Apr 1923
	22	May-Aug 1923
	23	Sept-Dec 1923
	24	Jan-May 1924
	25	Jun-Aug 1924
	26	Sept-Dec 1924
	27	Jan-Apr 1925
	28	May-Aug 1925
	29	Sept-Dec 1925
	30	Jan-Jun 1926
	31	July-Dec 1926
	32	1927
	33	1929-1930
	34	1932-Apr 1933
	35	May-Dec 1933
	36	Jan-May 1934
	37	Jun-Dec 1934
	38	1935
	39	1937
	40	Jan-May 1938
	41	Jun-Dec 1938
	42	1939
	43	Jan-Apr 1940
	44	May-Dec 1940
	45	Jan-May 1941
	46	Jun-Dec 1941
	46a	1942
	46b	John H. Moninger and BFM, 1939-1942

		SERIES II: PHOTOGRAPHS, C.1915-1941

1	47	Photographs, Hainan c.1915-1941

		SERIES III: STORIES AND VERSE, 1916, 1923-1925, n.d.

1	48	Stories and Verse, 1916, 1923-1925, n.d.
	48a	"Hainan Alphabet for New Recruits,", 1925

		SERIES IV: CLIPPINGS, 1916-1927, 1941

1	49	Clippings (letters to Iowa newspapers) 1916-1927, n.d.
	50	Clippings (Hainan Newsletter), n.d.
	51	Clippings (Forward magazine), 1941
	52	Clipping (Ivory Soap ad with Moninger letter), 1921
	53	Clippings and Releases (murder of G.D. Beyers, a missionary), n.d.
	54	Miscellaneous Clippings, 1922, 1933

		SERIES V: PUBLICATIONS

1	55	The Isle of Palms (Moninger, editor), 1919
	56	Pamphlets re Hainan, 1933, n.d.
	57	Scientific Articles (Moninger and F. A. McClure), 1925, 1932-1934

		SERIES VI: BROADSIDES IN CHINESE, n.d.

1	58	Broadsides in Chinese, n.d.

		SERIES VII: MANUSCRIPTS, 1940-1942, n.d.

2	1	"Hainan Was My Home, 1915-1942," n.d. [1942?]	Digital
	2	"The Training of a Chinese Nurse," n.d.	Digital
	3	"Somewhere in Occupied Territory in China Before Pearl Harbor," n.d.	Digital
	4	"A Record of Experiences in Nodoa in 1939," 1940	Digital
	5	"Internment and Repatriation from the United States View," 1941-1942	Digital
	6	"Twenty-three Thousand Miles of Miracle...," 1941-1942	Digital
	7	ibid.

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