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Record Creator: | Draper, Charles E. |
Title: | Charles E. Draper Papers |
Date Span: | 1903-1923 |
Abstract: | Personal papers and photographs from the life and missionary work of Charles Edwin Draper and his family throughout Asia. |
Extent: | 1.45 cubic feet |
Identification: | gcah.ms.gcah3580 |
Charles Edwin Draper (1879-1964), Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary, was born on November 9. 1879 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He graduated from Purdue University in 1906 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He married Mary Ethel Parks Draper on November 23, 1911 and they had four children named: C.R., Margaret, Betty, and John E. Draper, and they lived and worked throughout China, Singapore, Malaysia as missionaries and teachers in the early 20th Century. Draper attended the Hinghwa Conference in 1918 and worked in construction in Nanchang, China in 1922, before he became a Professor of Science at the Nanchang Academy in 1922. Later, he served as the Acting Registrar and was head of the Science Department at Nanchang Academy in 1923.
Charles E. Draper died on November 4. 1964.
This collection includes personal papers, photographs, and personal items from the life and work of the Draper family. There are four photograph albums that have pictures of the Draper children, places the family lived in Asia, other missionary staff workers, and their students. There are photographs of students in China and Malaysia that show the schools and classes Charles Draper taught science and Mary Ethel Draper taught English. Also included are Charles E. Draper's higher education papers from when he attended Purdue University.
Materials have been arranged in the following manner.
Collection arranged by genre and subject topic.
When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, Charles E. Draper Papers, United Methodist Church Archives - GCAH, Madison, New Jersey. Do not make use of the item's call number as that is not a stable descriptor.
There are no restrictions on this collection.
Detailed use restrictions relating to our collections can be requested from the office of the archivist at the General Commission on Archives and History. Photocopying is handled by the staff and may be limited in certain instances. Before using any material for publication from this collection a formal request for permission to publish is expected and required.
Microfilm Edition of the Missionary files series of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church.
Microfilm Edition of the Mission Biographical Reference Files.
Missionary Correspondence of the Board Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Call Number | Folder Title | Date(s) |
1586-4-4: 01 | Photograph Album: Snapshots from Malaysia and China Mission | 1910-1920 |
1586-4-4: 02 | Photograph Album: China Pictures Fujian Province | 1918-1921 |
1586-4-4: 03 | Photograph Album: China Pictures | 1920 |
1586-4-4: 04 | Photograph Album: Untitled Missions Pictures | Undated |
1586-4-5: 01 | Photographs: Berkley, California | 1916-1918 |
1586-4-5: 02 | Photographs: China | 1918-1923 |
1586-4-5: 03 | Photographs: Malaysia | 1911-1916 |
1586-4-5: 05 | Photographs: Miscellaneous | Undated |
1586-4-5: 06 | Photographs: Singapore | Undated |
1586-4-5: 07 | Higher Education Papers: Transcript | 1903-1906 |
1586-4-5: 08 | Artifact: Business Card Holder and Cards | Undated |
1586-4-5: 04 | Photographs: Methodist Conference, Hinghwa, Fukien Province | 1921 |