Charlotte C. Wyckoff Explained

Charlotte C. Wyckoff
Birth Date:April 30, 1893
Birth Place:Kodaikanal, India
Death Date:July 22, 1966 (age 73)
Death Place:New York City, U.S.
Occupation:Missionary, educator, writer

Charlotte Chandler Wyckoff (April 30, 1893 – July 22, 1966) was an American writer and missionary educator, based in India.

Early life and education

Wyckoff was born in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, the daughter of John Henry Wyckoff[1] [2] and Gertrude Abigail Chandler Wyckoff. Her parents were American missionaries from the Dutch Reformed Church tradition.[3] Her mother was also born in India, the sister of missionary John Scudder Chandler.[4]

Wyckoff graduated from her mother's alma mater, Wellesley College, in 1915,[5] and pursued further studies at Columbia University.[6] Her older brother, John Henry Wyckoff Jr., was a cardiology professor, and dean of the medical school at New York University.[7]

Career

Wyckoff used her language and cultural skills (she was a fluent Tamil speaker) to join her widowed mother's mission work in Arcot, India.[8] She also taught at Women's Christian College in Madras (Chennai).[9] [10] In the 1940s, she organized and ran a rural center in Mattathur, supported by donations from American church groups.[11] Her program included a school, a day nursery, evening classes, and a dispensary.[12] [13]

Wyckoff spoke to American audiences about her missionary work on furlough visits in 1939 and 1948.[14]

Publications

Wyckoff wrote novels, stories, and non-fiction with Indian themes. She wrote several pamphlets for church distribution, about her work in India. "Charlotte C. Wyckoff, who knows her subject well, has succeeded in turning out another of those sugar-coated pills of knowledge that is 'good stuff' for school children to absorb," wrote one reviewer in 1933.[15]

Personal life

Wyckoff retired and moved to the United States in 1960, and lived in Bound Brook, New Jersey.[27] In retirement she remained active, speaking to church groups about her life in India. She died in 1966, at the age of 73.[28] A restaurant in Kodaikanal is named Wyckoff's Dining Room, in reference to Charlotte C. Wyckoff.[29]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1915-04-29 . Dr. John Wyckoff Dies in India . 2 . The Central New Jersey Home News . 2023-11-04 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1939-03-06 . Wyckoff Family Holds Reunion . 7 . The Central New Jersey Home News . 2023-11-04 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: May 1, 1915 . Dr.Wyckoff Dies in India; A Missionary of Dutch Reformed Church for More Than 40 Years . en . 13 . The New York Times . 2023-11-04.
  4. News: 1934-06-21 . Dr. J. S. Chandler, Missionary, Dies; Linguist, 55 Years in India, Was Translator of English Works Into Native Tongue . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-11-04 . 0362-4331.
  5. Wellesley College, Legenda (1915 yearbook): 181. via Internet Archive.
  6. https://books.google.com/books?id=06VAYwCAJaEC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=%22Charlotte%20Chandler%20Wyckoff%22&pg=RA9-PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false "Miss Charlotte C. Wyckoff"
  7. Web site: John Henry Wyckoff, Jr. . 2023-11-04 . The Lillian & Clarence de la Chapelle Medical Archives, New York University.
  8. News: 1962-03-22 . Miss Wyckoff Speaks . 17 . The News . 2023-11-04 . Newspapers.com.
  9. April 1917 . Alumnae Notes: 1915 . The Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly . 1 . 3 . 224.
  10. June 1917 . Madras Union College for Women . Life and Light for Heathen Women . 47 . 251–252.
  11. News: March 6, 1948 . Congregation to Hear Woman Missionary . en . 14 . The New York Times . 2023-11-04.
  12. News: 1944-06-08 . Wyckoff Church School to Support Day Nursery in South India . 4 . The News . 2023-11-04 . Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1942-07-17 . Mud Hut is Good Style in India; Missionary Doesn't Miss Chance to Help Them 24 Hours a Day . 10 . Tulsa Herald All-Church Press . 2023-11-04 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: 1948-02-14 . Missionary from India at Old First; Lord's Prayer Theme of World Prayer Day Observance Here . 3 . The Herald-News . 2023-11-04 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: 1933-12-02 . Review of Jothy by Charlotte C. Wyckoff . 18 . The Minneapolis Star . 2023-11-04 . Newspapers.com.
  16. Wyckoff, Charlotte Chandler. "Mr. Eddy in Vellore" The Mission Gleaner 33(2)(February 1916): 1-5.
  17. Book: Wyckoff, Charlotte Chandler . Teaching high school in India . 1916 . New York : Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church of America . Columbia University Libraries.
  18. Book: Wyckoff, Charlotte Chandler . The call for leaders . New York : Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, R.C.A . Columbia University Libraries; Reformed Church in America; Women's Board of Foreign Missions.
  19. Web site: Wyckoff . Charlotte Chandler . 1923-04-01 . The Jungle Child . 2023-11-04 . The Atlantic . 492–496 . en.
  20. Book: Wyckoff, Charlotte Chandler . Out of the Chrysalis . 1930 . [New York] : [Woman's Board of Foreign Missions] . Columbia University Libraries.
  21. Book: Wyckoff, Charlotte Chandler . Vadakku-Pattrai : conditions in the front-line trenches . 1930 . New York : Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in America . Columbia University Libraries.
  22. News: May 27, 1934 . Review of Jothy: A Story of the South Indian Jungle by Charlotte Chandler Wyckoff, illustrated by Kurt Wiese . en . 44 . The New York Times . 2023-11-04.
  23. Book: Up the school steps . 1938 . New York, N.Y. : Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in America . Columbia University Libraries . 4–9 . Internet Archive.
  24. Book: Wyckoff, Charlotte Chandler . "Good out of Nazareth?" : a program on village work . 1939 . New York, N.Y. : Woman's Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in America . Columbia University Libraries.
  25. Book: Wyckoff, Charlotte Chandler . Kodaikanal, 1845-1945 . 1945 . London Mission Press . en.
  26. News: Rama Rau . Santha . July 25, 1965 . Review of Kumar, by Charlotte Chandler Wyckoff, Illustrated by Robin Jacques. . en . The New York Times . 2023-11-04.
  27. News: 1962-02-01 . Plan Talk on India . 15 . The Central New Jersey Home News . 2023-11-04 . Newspapers.com.
  28. News: July 26, 1966 . Charlotte Wyckoff . 32 . The New York Times . November 3, 2023.
  29. Web site: Wyckoff's Dining Room . 2023-11-04 . Villa Retreat . en-US.

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