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Adelaide Daughaday

Adelaide Daughaday (March 2, 1845 – July 1, 1919) was an American Christian missionary in Japan.

Adelaide Daughaday
An older white woman, grey hair in a bouffant updo, wearing a high-collared white lacy blouse and a dark jacket.
Adelaide Daughaday, from a 1919 publication.
BornMarch 2, 1845
Guilford, New York
DiedJuly 1, 1919
Sapporo
OccupationChristian missionary

Early life edit

Mary Adelaide Daughaday was born in Guilford, New York, the daughter of William Hamilton Daughaday and Hannah Elizabeth Bell Daughaday.[1]

 
Adelaide Daughaday (right), with an unnamed Japanese assistant, from a 1919 publication.

Career edit

Daughaday arrived in Japan as a missionary in 1883. She taught at Baikwa Girls' School in Osaka, in Tottori, and for her last twenty years in Sapporo.[2][3] She made a particular effort for temperance in Japan.[1][4] She spent time lecturing in the United States on furloughs in 1895 to 1897,[5] and 1907 to 1908.[6][7]

Daughaday wrote about Japan for American church and secular publications.[8][9][10] In 1916, she described events surrounded the coronation of Emperor Taishō, which worried her because it included bottles of sake as imperial gifts.[11] One of her last reports from Sapporo mentioned the end of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic: "Like the rest of the world, Japan has suffered from influenza. Schools have been closed, and the ordinary routine of life confused."[12]

Personal life edit

Daughaday died in Sapporo in 1919, aged 74 years.[13]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Mary Adelaide Daughaday". The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad. 115: 320–321. August 1919.
  2. ^ Searle, Susan A. (1897). "Adelaide M. Daughaday". Japan Mission Annual: 19.
  3. ^ Chandler, Ada B. (January 1908). "One Woman's Work in Sapporo". Life and Light for Woman. 38: 13–15 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Tyrrell, Ian (2014-03-19). Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930. UNC Press Books. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4696-2080-0.
  5. ^ "Women Aid Women". The Boston Globe. 1895-11-06. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-11-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Report on Japan Work to Berkshire Branch". The North Adams Transcript. 1907-11-20. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-11-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yellow Press Only War Cause". Detroit Free Press. 1908-12-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-11-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Daughaday, Adelaide (November 1911). "The Japanese Woman Under Buddhism". Life and Light for Woman. 41: 489–493.
  9. ^ Daughaday, Adelaide (January 1917). "Signs of the Times in Japan". Life and Light for Woman. 47: 24–26 – via Internet Archive.
  10. ^ Daughaday, Adelaide (1885-06-28). "A Letter from Japan". Democrat and Chronicle. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-11-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Daughaday, Adelaide (February 1916). "The Emperor's Coronation from the Missionary Viewpoint". Life and Light for Woman. 46: 70–72.
  12. ^ "Field Correspondents". Life and Light for Woman. 49: 78. February 1919.
  13. ^ Rowland, Helen G. (September 1919). "Adelaide Daughaday: In Loving Appreciation". Life and Light for Woman. 49: 369–372.
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