Descriptive Summary
Creator(s)
Collection open for research
Biographical Note / Administrative History
Theodore M. Yates, MD, and Jean Kammerer Yates, RN, served as medical missionaries under the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the USA at the Hwai Yuan Station of the Kiangan Mission in China, 1923-1942.
Theodore M. Yates was born in England in 1894, the son of a Salvation Army officer who came to the United States in 1895. Yates attended Richmond Academy in Augusta, Georgia and earned his MD at the University of Georgia in 1919. He did his internship at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, where he met Jean Kammerer from Toronto, Canada, who was attending the Roosevelt Training School for Nurses. In 1922 the Yateses were married and in 1923 went to China. A son, James Kammerer Yates, was born on December 22, 1923, and a daughter, Christina Jean Yates, on October 20, 1926. In 1941, due to war conditions, Mrs. Yates and the children returned to the U.S., to be followed in 1942 by Dr. Yates on the S.S. Gripsholm. The Yates resigned in 1948.
Collection Overview
The bulk of the Yates Family Papers consists of the letters of Dr. and Mrs. Yates to their relatives in the United States and Canada and to each other when they were apart. There are also several letters from other missionaries and Chinese workers. The correspondence provides a vivid picture of the life of a missionary family and the political, social and medical problems of missionary work in the turbulent China of the 1920s and 1930s.
Organization and Arrangement
SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1922-46, 1949-50, 1954, N.D.
SERIES 2: DIARY OF JEAN YATES, 1933
SERIES 3: MISCELLANY, 1923-42, C. 1980S, N.D.
SERIES 4: PHOTOGRAPHS, N.D.
Administrative Information
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: 1989
Glenn Colliver, Assistant Archivist
Catalog Headings
Collection Inventory
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1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 234 | |
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| SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1922-1954 | |
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1 | 2 | 1922 | |
1 | 3 | January-September 1923 | |
1 | 4 | October 1923-November 1924 | |
1 | 5 | January-August 1925 | |
1 | 6 | September-December 1925 | |
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| January-June 1926 | |
1 | 8 | July 1926 | |
1 | 9 | August 1926 | |
1 | 10 | September-December 1926 | |
1 | 11 | January-March 1927 | |
1 | 12 | April 1927 | |
1 | 13 | May-September 1927 | |
1 | 14 | December 1927 | |
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2 | 1 | January-March l928 | |
2 | 2 | April-December 1928 | |
2 | 3 | 1929 | |
2 | 4 | 1930 | |
2 | 5 | 1931 | |
2 | 6 | 1932 | |
2 | 7 | 1933-1935 | |
2 | 8 | 1936 | |
2 | 9 | 1937 | |
2 | 10 | June-December 1937 (Robert J. McCandless, M.D.) | |
2 | 11 | 1938 | |
2 | 12 | 1939 | |
2 | 13 | 1940 | |
2 | 14 | January-April 1941 | |
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3 | 1 | May-August 1941 | |
3 | 2 | September-November 1941, n.d. | |
3 | 3 | 1942-1943 | |
3 | 4 | 1944-1946, 1949-1950, 1954, n.d. | |
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| SERIES II: JEAN YATES' DIARY | |
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3 | 5 | Jean Yates' Diary, January-June 1933 | |
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| SERIES III: MISCELLANY, 1922-1942, 1980's, n.d. | |
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3 | 6 | Travel Manual for Missionaries, 1923 | |
3 | 7 | Newsletters, 1939-1941 | |
3 | 8 | Reports, 1922, 1933, 1936-1937, 1940-1942, 1981, n.d. | |
3 | 9 | Notes for Deputational Talks, 1938, 1942, n.d. | |
3 | 10 | Miscellaneous Papers from Repatriation, 1942 | |
3 | 11 | Clippings, 1942 | |
3 | 12 | Official Chinese and Japanese Documents, 1931, 1940-1941, n.d. | |
3 | 13 | Tract and Letter in Chinese, n.d. | |
3 | 14 | Notes of Dr. Yates, ca. 1980's | |
3 | 15 | Leaflet of Pictures of Hwai Yuan, n.d. | |
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| SERIES IV: PHOTOGRAPHS | |
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3 | 16 | Photographs, n.d. | |
3 | 17 | Photographs, n.d. | |
3 | 18 | Photographs, n.d. | |
3 | 19 | Medical Photographs, n.d. |