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Biographical Note / Administrative History
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’ 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
Collection Inventory
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| SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1915-1942 | |
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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 | |
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| SERIES II: PHOTOGRAPHS, C.1915-1941 | |
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1 | 47 | Photographs, Hainan c.1915-1941 | |
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| SERIES III: STORIES AND VERSE, 1916, 1923-1925, n.d. | |
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1 | 48 | Stories and Verse, 1916, 1923-1925, n.d. | |
| 48a | "Hainan Alphabet for New Recruits,", 1925 | |
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| SERIES IV: CLIPPINGS, 1916-1927, 1941 | |
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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 | |
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| SERIES V: PUBLICATIONS | |
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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 | |
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| SERIES VI: BROADSIDES IN CHINESE, n.d. | |
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1 | 58 | Broadsides in Chinese, n.d. | |
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| SERIES VII: MANUSCRIPTS, 1940-1942, n.d. | |
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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. |