Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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i l 1 VATES left his home in western Wake County in the year 1838 for the private ocademy of Mr G. W. Thompson which was located about three miles from Wake Forest College, After studying there for one year, he taught for a session. It was upon his return to the academy the following year that he surrendered himself for whatever service God might hove for him, and at this time Mr Thompson and Dr Wait prevailed upon him to go to Wake Forest College He prepared himself for a missionary to the Chinese According in the fall of 1840 we find Yates riding up to the Wake Forest campus on horseback to enroll as a student The first year he remained with the preparatory group, and then entered into the regular college work. Four years later he graduated, and soon was accepted by the Baptist Foreign Mission Board at Richmond, Virginia as a missionary to China It was not, however, until September 12, 1847 that he sailed into Shanghai to begin his Herculean task. lidf 1 1 ■-11,1 |.ii as:j2iM «• j «•;•} «» '

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George Pleasant Bostie, Rutherford County, 1883, Tungchow, Pochow. China. Thomas Cotton Britton. Northampton County, 1886, Central China. Carson Leunon Powell, Columbus County. 1872, Algeria Africa, took up work about 18S7. Christopher Columbus Newton. New Hanover County, 1870, Lagos, West Coast of Africa. 1SS9. Ezra Francis Tatum. Davie County. 1SS7. Central China. Francis Marion Royall. Sampson County, 1891. China: Palestine. Haifa. Thomas Lee Blalock, Mitchell County. 1S92. Central China. Thomas Jackson Hudson. Person County. 1893. China, Gospel Mission. William Elwyn Crocker. Spartanburg. South Carolina. 1S90. China. LeRoy Norcross Chappell . Wake County. 1881. Central China. Chinkiang. George Washington Green. Caldwell County. 1870. Canton. South China. Samuel Judson Porter. Columbus County. 1893. Brazil. Jesse Colman Owen. Transylvania County. 1899. Tungchow. North China. Wade Dobbin Bostie. Rutherford County. 1899, Tungchow, Pochow, China. James Monroe Justice, Henderson County, 1905. Buenos Aires. Argentine. Eugene Alfred Turner. Wake County. 1906, Y. M. C. A., China. Thomas Xeil Johnson, Tennessee, 1898, Japan; Shanghai College, China. William Carey Newton. Lagos. Africa. 1895. North China. Charles Alexander Leonard. Iredell County. 1907. China. Harbin. Manchuria. John Burder Hipps. Madison County. 1907. Shanghai College. China. Arthur Raymond Gallimore. Davidson County. 1910. South China. Gordon Poteat, Greenville. South Carolina. Central Cina. Lucius Bunyan Olive. Wake County. 1912, Central China. Albert Rutus Phillips, Stokes County, 1913, Buenos Aires, . rgentine. Victor V. McGuire, Cherokee County, 1913. South China. Canton. George Nutt Herring. M.D., Sampson, son of D. W. H.. 1913. No rth China. Gordon Rea Herring, son of D. W. H.. 1919. Central China. John Todd Anderson. M.D.. South Carolina, Central China, 1912. Clarence Dixon Boone. Haywood County. 1899. Mexico. Milton Lav Braun. Buncombe County. 1915. Kaifeng. Interior China. Charles James Fox Anderson. Virginia. 1893. Rome. Italy. Henry Hudson McMillan, Scotland County. 1908. Soochow. Central China. Lonnie Elwood Blackman. Wayne County. 1916, Central China. Julius Carlyle Powell, Duplin County, 1916, Oyo, West Coast of Africa. George William Greene, son of G. W. G., 1916. Canton, South China. Edwin McNeill Poteat. Caswell County. 1881. Shanghai College. China. Orris Golden Tillman. Florida. 1918. Burhani. Philip Ernest White, Perquimans County. 1919. Interior China. Milledge Theron Rankin. Sumter County. South Carolina. 1918, South China. Manly Whitfield Rankin, Sumter County, South Carolina. 1922, South China. Willard Voniver Nix. Henderson County. 1921. Tukuoka. Japan. Dan Thomas Hurley, Randolph County. 1921. Rumania. Frank Tennyson Neely Woodward. Davie County. 1921. South China. James Clarence Anders. M.D.. Virginia. 1922. Ogbomoso. Africa. Robert Gilmer Proctor. Guilford County. 1923. Beige Congo. Africa. Arthur Samuel Gillespie. Cleveland County. 1926. Interior China. This is indeed a noble company. Of them the following have departed this life: M. T. Yates. G. P. Bostie. W. E. Crocker. G. W. Greene. C. C. Newton. LeRoy N. Chappell. John T. Anderson. C. L. Powell. Dan T. Hurley — nine in all; leaving thirty-nine (39) still living. Some, like Leonard, are among the ablest foreign missionaries now living; Royall has preached the Gospel and baptized converts in America. Europe. Asia and Africa, even in the River Jordan. Some are at home, some in Darkest Africa; all are serving their Divine Master. G. W. Paschaix. S S I K:

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