Guide to the Florence Leila Logan Papers
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Florence Leila Logan was born in 1897 in Rhodes, Iowa. She graduated in 1919 from the University of Washington with a degree in journalism. She also attended the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and Moody Bible Institute, 1919-1921. Influenced by a Missionary Education Movement Conference, she applied to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and was assigned to Paotingfu Station of the North China Mission in 1921. Logan served as an evangelist there until her repatriation on the MS Gripsholm in 1942. She returned to Paotingfu (Baoding Fu) in 1947, but was forced to leave in 1951 after the Communist takeover. She served in Taiwan (Formosa) from 1952 until her retirement in 1962.
Logan published leaflets and songbooks in Chinese, as well as articles in English. She also translated for publication the works of The Rev. Andrew Gish, a noted Chinese evangelist.
The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and photograph albums primarily documenting missionary life and work in North China with emphasis on evangelistic work.
Florence L. Logan’s home letters from China comprise the bulk of the correspondence. There are a few letters of other PCUSA missionaries in North China including a 1923 letter of John Herman Wylie, M.D., a 1937 letter of Maud A. Mackey, M.D., a 1940 letter of Marjorie M. Judson, and a 1939 and 1940 letter of Myrtle J. Hinkhouse, M.D. Included as well are three of Logan’s 1953-1954 home letters from Taiwan.
The photographs and photograph albums (circa 1910-1941) mainly document the North China Mission and missionaries; the American Presbyterian Mission, missionaries, and hospitals at Paotingfu; Paotingfu; and Chinese Christians and the general populace. Itineration and famine relief efforts are also recorded.
SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1923, 1933-1954
SERIES II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, CIRCA 1910-1941
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Researchers should also consult Record Group 360 for the Florence Leila Logan missionary personnel files, cassette tape 1670 of an address given by Logan on her missionary years in China, and the Presbyterian Historical Society catalog.
Record Group 82, (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Board of Foreign Missions, Secretaries files: China Missions) has complementary materials.
This collection was transferred from the library.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: 1989
Glenn Colliver, Assistant Archivist
Finding aid revised, July 2008
Bill Brock, Collection Management Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | Alternative Formats |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 241 | |
| SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE, 1923, 1933-1954 | |||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence, 1923, 1933-1954 | |
| SERIES II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, CIRCA 1910-1941 | |||
| 1 | 3 | Photograph album pages, primarily North China Mission, missionaries, and hospitals; Paotingfu; and people and places of North China (bulk unidentified and undated), circa 1910-circa 1930, undated | Digital |
| 1 | 4 | Photographs, primarily North China Mission, missionaries, and Paotingfu, circa 1915-1941, undated | Digital |
| 1 | 5 | Photograph album, primarily North China Mission, missionaries, 1939-1940 Paotingfu relief work, and people and places of North China, circa 1920-1941 | Digital |
| 1 | 6 | Photograph album pages, primarily North China Mission, missionaries, and Paotingfu, 1924, 1930-1931, undated | Digital |
| 1 | 7 | Medical staff group photograph (includes Myrtle J. Hinkhouse, M.D., Maud A. Mackey, M.D., and Orpha B. Gould, R.N.), circa late 1920s-early 1930s | |
| 1 | 8 | Photograph album, mission staff and their families (nine photographs, only one identified), 1929 | |
| 1 | 9 | "Pictorial Visit to Hodge Memorial Hospital, Paotingfu, North China Mission" (photographic postcards hand colored by Peking artist), 1931 | Digital |