Guide to the Maye Anette Dennis Papers
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Maye Anette Dennis was born in Princeton, IA, on February 12, 1887. After graduating from the Presbyterian Training School in Baltimore, she was appointed to the North India Mission by the Board of Foreign Missions (PCUSA). She sailed for India in 1917 and joined the faculty of the Mary Wanamaker School for Girls in Allahabad. In 1919, she was transferred to the city of Mainpuri as an itinerant teacher. She visited homes and zenanas, teaching Mohammedans, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians.
In 1935, she was elected an elder of the Mainpuri Church, the first woman to be so honored. She founded a Christian Opportunity Center in Mainpuri, which attracted pupils from all over the surrounding area. Dennis retired from the Board of Foreign Missions in 1952 and moved to Agra to teach at Holman Institute. She returned to the United States in 1958.
Record Group 295 consists of home letters and narrative reports in which Dennis describes her work and her life in India between 1921 and 1940 in vivid detail. It also includes a story, a memorial minute of Evelyn Thompson, and a station letter written by Dennis.
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Related collections include several personal paper collections on India missionaries as well as:
RG 33, Secretaries' files: India Mission, 1891-1972.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: August 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist