Mosier, Lee H. Papers

File — Oversize_Box: Photo1, Folder: Pyinmana School 1912-1913; Henzada Chapel 1889; Karen Mission house, Henzada ; ABM Girls School Henzada 1924

Identifier: RG-1621

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1889-1924

Creator

Mosier, Lee H. (Lee Hadley), 1855-1919 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials in the collection are in English and in Burmese.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

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Biographical / Historical

Lee H. Mosier was born in Maple Valley, New York to a father who had been a lieutenant in the Civil War and died in Spotsylvania in 1864. He graduated from Colgate Theological Seminary in 1890. His first wife, Sarah Griffith, died after only six months of marriage. Mosier’s second wife Bithia Wepf was born in Columbus, Wisconsin to Swiss parents. They married in 1893, but Bithia died in 1904. Lee married her sister Julia in 1905. The Mosiers were appointed to missionary service that same year and sailed to Burma. Together they gave many years of service as evangelistic and educational missionaries in Shwegyin, Pyinmana, and Bhamo. Mr. Mosier died in 1919 and Julia carried on in Bhamo for two and a half years. After furlough, she returned to take the superintendence of the Girls’ School at Henzada, and in 1924, took over charge of the Maymo Girls’ School. She retired in 1930 and returned to Washington State.

Extent

4 Files

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Dan Tuttle, 2018

Related Materials

See also American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (International Ministries): Missionary Correspondence

File Plan

Burmese pamphlets bound by or for L.H. Mosier; Reports on Burma work 1903-1915; “Tribute of love and esteem to Rev. Lee Hadley Mosier, for 29 years a missionary to Burma" typed on American Baptist Foreign Mission letterhead. It includes a history of his life and a long list of reminiscences by people who worked with him, including a "character sketch" from Saya Tha Din, a professor in the Burmese Theological Seminary, translated from Burmese.