Guide to the Florence Leila Logan Papers

Descriptive Summary

Title

Florence Leila Logan Papers

Inclusive Dates

circa 1910-1954

Call Number

RG 241

Creator(s)

Logan, Florence Leila, 1897-1997.

Quantity

0.33 cubic feet (1 box)

Language

Materials in English.

Restrictions on Access

Collection open for research use

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Repository

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

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Biographical Note

Florence Leila Logan was born in 1897 in Rhodes, Iowa. She graduated in 1919 from the University of Washington with a degree in journalism. She also attended the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and Moody Bible Institute, 1919-1921. Influenced by a Missionary Education Movement Conference, she applied to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and was assigned to Paotingfu Station of the North China Mission in 1921. Logan served as an evangelist there until her repatriation on the MS Gripsholm in 1942. She returned to Paotingfu (Baoding Fu) in 1947, but was forced to leave in 1951 after the Communist takeover. She served in Taiwan (Formosa) from 1952 until her retirement in 1962.

Logan published leaflets and songbooks in Chinese, as well as articles in English. She also translated for publication the works of The Rev. Andrew Gish, a noted Chinese evangelist.

Collection Overview

The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and photograph albums primarily documenting missionary life and work in North China with emphasis on evangelistic work.

Florence L. Logan’s home letters from China comprise the bulk of the correspondence. There are a few letters of other PCUSA missionaries in North China including a 1923 letter of John Herman Wylie, M.D., a 1937 letter of Maud A. Mackey, M.D., a 1940 letter of Marjorie M. Judson, and a 1939 and 1940 letter of Myrtle J. Hinkhouse, M.D. Included as well are three of Logan’s 1953-1954 home letters from Taiwan.

The photographs and photograph albums (circa 1910-1941) mainly document the North China Mission and missionaries; the American Presbyterian Mission, missionaries, and hospitals at Paotingfu; Paotingfu; and Chinese Christians and the general populace. Itineration and famine relief efforts are also recorded.

Organization and Arrangement

SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1923, 1933-1954

SERIES II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, CIRCA 1910-1941

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Administrative Information

Processing Information

This collection was transferred from the library.

Collection processed and finding aid prepared: 1989
Glenn Colliver, Assistant Archivist

Finding aid revised, July 2008
Bill Brock, Collection Management Archivist

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Personal Name Subject

Logan, Florence Lelia, 1897-1997.

Corporate Subject

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. North China Mission.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions.

Topical Subject

Women missionaries--China.

Women missionaries--Taiwan.

Missionaries--China.

Presbyterian Church--Missions--China.

Missions--China.

Presbyterian Church--Missions--Taiwan.

Missions--Taiwan.

Geographic Subject

Baoding Fu (China)

China--Missions.

Taiwan--Missions.

Genre-form

Photographs. aat

Photograph albums. aat

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description	Alternative Formats

1	1	Finding Aid to Record Group 241

		SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1923, 1933-1954

1	2	Correspondence, 1923, 1933-1954

		SERIES II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, CIRCA 1910-1941

1	3	Photograph album pages, primarily North China Mission, missionaries, and hospitals; Paotingfu; and people and places of North China (bulk unidentified and undated), circa 1910-circa 1930, undated	Digital
1	4	Photographs, primarily North China Mission, missionaries, and Paotingfu, circa 1915-1941, undated	Digital
1	5	Photograph album, primarily North China Mission, missionaries, 1939-1940 Paotingfu relief work, and people and places of North China, circa 1920-1941	Digital
1	6	Photograph album pages, primarily North China Mission, missionaries, and Paotingfu, 1924, 1930-1931, undated	Digital
1	7	Medical staff group photograph (includes Myrtle J. Hinkhouse, M.D., Maud A. Mackey, M.D., and Orpha B. Gould, R.N.), circa late 1920s-early 1930s
1	8	Photograph album, mission staff and their families (nine photographs, only one identified), 1929
1	9	"Pictorial Visit to Hodge Memorial Hospital, Paotingfu, North China Mission" (photographic postcards hand colored by Peking artist), 1931	Digital

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