Condict, E. Carroll Papers

Collection

Identifier: RG-1166

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Newspaper articles, issue of Burma News, and other materials containing information about Condict, his brother Clinton and T. Chubb, and his parents, Edward Carroll Condict (1886-1971) and Isabel Adams Condict (1888-1970), missionaries in Thayetmyo, Burma, 1911-1954.

Dates

Creation: 1919-1963

Language of Materials

Materials in the collection are in English and Asho Chin

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 Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.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.

Materials may be accessed by request at the American Baptist Historical Society. For more information on accessing collections or obtaining copies, visit http://abhsarchives.org.

Biographical / Historical

Baptist layman. Business in New Jersey.

Biographical / Historical

Condict served as a missionary to Burma for 42 years. He was appointed in 1911 and sailed with his wife Isabel Adams Condict that same year. He served as general missionary at the Thayetmyo station and worked among the Chin people for four terms before World War II. In 1940, Condict became field secretary of the Burma Baptist Mission with headquarters in Rangoon. He left just ahead of the approaching Japanese army in 1942. He was twice a member of the Burma Reference Committee and for three years served as secretary of the Board of Trustees of Judson College in Rangoon. His Chin Primer and Chin Hymn Book were products of his translation, and his retirement was postponed so that he could finish the New Testament in the Asho Chin language.

Returning to the U.S. in 1942, Dr. Condict served at two hospitals in New England and then was called to Washington to help in interpreting various reports from Burma. In 1945 he went to Burma as a noncombatant intelligence officer of the Office of Strategic Services of the U.S. Army.

Dr. Condict’s hobby was dentistry, and he often told of pulling more than 16,000 teeth during his years in Burma.

Extent

.2 Linear Feet (65 items, 6 folders)

Additional Description

Related Materials

See also American Baptist Foreign Mission Society: Missionary Correspondence

Bibliography

Stub entry from A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the American Baptist Historical Society, compiled by William H. Brackney and Susan M. Eltscher (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York, 1986).

File Plan

Burma Christian Endeavour Union 1930; envelopes; Maps; The Masonian 1922 and 1929; News clippings; Pamphlets and flyers 1930-1955

Burma books, personal copies:

The New Testament in Burmese (1954); Asho Hymns of Praise by U. Maung U (1963); Asho Southern Chin Hymns of Praise (1951); Asho Southern Chin Hymns of Praise (1941); Asho Southern Chin Primer (1952); Longmans’ Sixth Standard Reader for Anglo-Vernacular Schools in Burma by J.M.S. (1919)