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Personal papers of Capen family, two generations of American Baptist missionaries to the Swatow region in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Scope and Contents Gam Seng and Alice Mae Shae were Baptist missionaries in Burma, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and other Southeast Asian countries in the mid to late 1900s. This collection contains photographs, certificates, notes, writing, documents, etc. from throughout their lives and careers.Alice Mae Simmons trained at the Baptist Missionary Training School and Andover Newton Theological Seminary, serving a long-term mission to Burma where she met and subsequently married Gam. ...