Rev. Ernest R. Atwater (September 14, 1865 - 1898) was a Congregational minister and missionary to China. He was married to Jennie Pond Atwater (1865 - 96), who died while in the China mission with her husband. In the Boxer Rebellion, Rev. Atwater, his four children by Jennie, Ernestine (1889 - 1900), Mary (1892 - 1900), Celia (circa 1894 - ??), and Bertha (1896 - ??), and Ernest's second wife, Elizabeth Graham Atwater were all killed.
Atwater was born in Oberlin, Ohio on September 14, 1865.[1]