Frederica Mead Hiltner Explained

Frederica Mead Hiltner
Birth Name:Frederica Rutherford Mead
Birth Date:June 15, 1890
Birth Place:Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.
Death Date:May 29, 1977
Death Place:Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation:Educator, Presbyterian missionary
Relatives:William Rutherford Mead (uncle)
Larkin Goldsmith Mead (uncle)
Lawrence Mead (grand-nephew)

Frederica Rutherford Mead Hiltner (June 15, 1890 – May 29, 1977) was an American educator and Presbyterian missionary in China.

Early life and education

Mead was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, the daughter of Frederick Goodhue Mead and Marie Louise Myers Mead.[1] [2] Her father died before she was born. Architect William Rutherford Mead and sculptor Larkin Goldsmith Mead were her uncles. Her older brother Lawrence Myers Mead taught and worked in China for the YMCA.[3] Her older sister Margaret Platt Mead (not the anthropologist of similar name) was a national and international leader of the YWCA.[4] She graduated from Smith College in 1911, and earned a joint master's degree in English and Religious Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1918.[5] [6]

Career

Mead was a Presbyterian missionary teacher,[7] and the first Smith alumna on the faculty at Ginling College in Nanking. She taught from 1915[8] to 1922, with a furlough from 1916 to 1918 to attend graduate school in New York City. During World War I, she was a member of the Junior War Work Council of the YWCA.[9] She spoke about her work to community groups in New Jersey in 1916[10] [11] and in 1922.[12]

Hiltner was active in the YWCA in Seattle.[13] She was president of Christian Friends for Racial Equality, a Seattle civil rights organization,in the 1950s.[14] She volunteered with the Omi Brotherhood, an interdenominational Christian lay organization, and edited a collection of poems, Poems of East and West (1960) by the Omi Brotherhood founder, Merrell Vories.[15]

Publications

Personal life

Mead married widowed medical missionary Walter Garfield Hiltner in 1923. The couple returned to the United States from China in 1925, soon after their son Frederick died in infancy; they lived in Seattle, where their son John was born in 1926. Her husband was medical director of an insurance company in Seattle, and he died in 1951.[17] [18] She died in 1977, at the age of 86, in Seattle.

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Notes and References

  1. News: 1912-01-06 . Reception for a Debutante; Coming Out Party for Miss Frederica R. Mead a Delightful Social Affair . 2024-01-20 . The Courier-News . 1 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1948-12-27 . Marie Louise Mead . 2024-01-20 . The Courier-News . 18 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: Collection: Lawrence and Eleanor Mead Papers. 2024-01-20 . Yale Divinity Library.
  4. News: 1971-12-08 . Miss Margaret Mead, former YWCA Officer . 2024-01-20 . The Courier-News . 50 . Newspapers.com.
  5. https://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/chinacollegesproject/Smith/bios/Hiltner_Frederica.html "Frederica Mead Hiltner (1890-1977)"
  6. Book: Selles, Johanna M. . The World Student Christian Federation, 1895-1925: Motives, Methods, and Influential Women . 2011-04-07 . Wipf and Stock Publishers . 978-1-60899-508-0 . 239–240. en.
  7. Mead . Marie Louise . January 1916 . Ginling College, Nanking, China . Woman's Work . 31 . 9–11.
  8. Book: Hunter, Jane . The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-century China . 1984-01-01 . 30, 136, 188. Yale University Press . 978-0-300-04603-8 . en.
  9. https://books.google.com/books?id=FD2SLHF04WgC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Frederica%20Mead&pg=PA385-IA7#v=onepage&q=Frederica%20Mead&f=false "War Work Council"
  10. News: 1916-11-13 . Large Attendance at Y.W.C.A. Vespers . 2024-01-20 . The Courier-News . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1916-11-18 . Tells Need of Women of China . 2024-01-20 . The Courier-News . 2 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1922-11-20 . Miss Mead Addressed Y.M.C.A. Vespers; Reception by Guild to Miss Frederica Mead . 2024-01-20 . The Courier-News . 13 . Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1938-06-17 . Y.W.C.A. Chooses New Leaders . 2024-01-20 . The Seattle Star . 10 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: Cameron . Madeline M. . 1955-05-01 . Court Decision Against Segregation is Discussed at CFRE Annual Dinner . 2024-01-20 . Filipino Forum . 2 . Newspapers.com.
  15. Book: Hitotsuyanagi, Merrell Vories . Poems of the East and West: By Merrell Vories Hitotsuyanagi . 1960 . Omi-Hachiman, Japan, The Omi Brotherhood . en.
  16. Mead . Frederica . July 1915 . China's First Union College for Women . Smith Alumnae Quarterly . 255–256.
  17. News: 1951-08-03 . Dr. Hiltner Dies in Seattle . 2024-01-20 . The Courier-News . 9 . Newspapers.com.
  18. News: 1951-08-01 . Dr. W. G. Hiltner Dies in Seattle; Former Missionary . 2024-01-20 . The Lincoln Star . 2 . Newspapers.com.

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