Frederica Rutherford Mead Hiltner (June 15, 1890 – May 29, 1977) was an American educator and Presbyterian missionary in China.
6-461: Hiltner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Frederica Mead Hiltner (1890–1977), American missionary teacher in China, 1915–1922 Michael Hiltner (born 1941), American author, poet, designer, and cyclist Mike Hiltner (born 1966), American ice hockey player W. Albert Hiltner (1914–1991), American astronomer 4924 Hiltner ,
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18-524: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Frederica Mead Hiltner Mead was born in Plainfield, New Jersey , the daughter of Frederick Goodhue Mead and Marie Louise Myers Mead. Her father died before she was born. Architect William Rutherford Mead and sculptor Larkin Goldsmith Mead were her uncles. Her older brother Lawrence Myers Mead taught and worked in China for
24-555: The YMCA . Her older sister Margaret Platt Mead (not the anthropologist of similar name) was a national and international leader of the YWCA . She graduated from Smith College in 1911, and earned a joint master's degree in English and Religious Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1918. Mead was a Presbyterian missionary teacher, and
30-758: The first Smith alumna on the faculty at Ginling College in Nanking. She taught from 1915 to 1922, with a furlough from 1916 to 1918 to attend graduate school in New York City. During World War I , she was a member of the Junior War Work Council of the YWCA . She spoke about her work to community groups in New Jersey in 1916 and in 1922. Hiltner was active in the YWCA in Seattle. She
36-568: Was president of Christian Friends for Racial Equality, a Seattle civil rights organization,in the 1950s. She volunteered with the Omi Brotherhood [ ja ] , an interdenominational Christian lay organization, and edited a collection of poems, Poems of East and West (1960) by the Omi Brotherhood founder, Merrell Vories. Mead married widowed medical missionary Walter Garfield Hiltner in 1923. The couple returned to
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