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Title: Charles Luther Boynton Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1901-1967
Collection number: XX284
Creator:
Boynton, Charles Luther, 1881-
Collection Size:
11 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes.
(4.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, writings, pamphlets, and photographs, relating to missionary work in Shanghai, the Shanghai American
School, and social conditions in China.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
For copyright status, please contact
the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Charles Luther Boynton Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Charles and Edmund Boynton papers. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium.
Missions--China.
China.
China--Description and travel.
Shanghai (China)
Missionaries.
| 1881, June 8 | Born, Townshend, Vermont |
| 1901 | Graduated, Pomona College |
| 1901-1903 | Assistant Secretary, State Committee YMCAs of Kansas |
| 1903-1906 | Business Secretary, Student Department, International Committee YMCA, New York |
| 1906-1914 | Business Secretary, National Committee YMCAs of China |
| 1907 | Attended Centenary Conference, New York |
| 1908, June 8 | Married Leila Dozier |
| 1909-1920 | Member, original Board of Managers of the Shanghai American School, which he founded |
| 1914-1915 | Foreign Missions Conference of North America |
| Editor, The Missions Code | |
| 1915-1920 | Business and Statistical Secretary of China Continuation Committee |
| 1915-1923 | Served with U.S. Army, Shanghai Volunteer Corps |
| 1920-1922 | Business Manager, Shanghai American School; Executive Secretary, 1922-1923; Acting Principal, 1923-1924; Principal, 1924-1926 |
| 1927-1947 | Business Secretary of National Christian Council of China; Acting General Secretary, 1941; Honorary Secretary, 1947-1950 |
| Compiled the handbook The Christian Movement in China | |
| 1943-1945 | Interned at Chapei Civil Assembly Center during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai |
| 1946 | Returned to the United States |