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Gilbert Reid, 1857-1927 (Papers)
Hamilton College Library, Clinton, New York
2003
Profile Description | |
| Creation: | EAD encoding by Peter MacDonald 2003 |
| Language: | English |
Overview of the Collection | |
| Repository: | Hamilton College Archives |
| Creator: | Reid, Gilbert, 1857-1927 |
| Title: | Gilbert Reid Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | [Date range undetermined.] |
| Quantity: | 9 Boxes (8.25 linear feet) |
| Abstract: | Papers |
| Identification: | 0000.7 |
| Location: | Box Shelves |
| Language: | English |
Organized chronologically and by subject and media (e.g., personal journals, newspapers, correspondences, published journals).Unarranged.
Summary
Contains professional correspondences of the I.I.C. to philanthropists (e.g. Carnegie and Rockefeller) and missionary organizations in the U.S. as well as other nations regarding support of the Institute; the journals, publications, manuscripts, sermons and addresses of Reid; newspaper clippings regarding Reid and life in China; volumes II through XVI of The International Journal of the I.I.C.; minutes of the meeting of the trustees of the I.I.C.; the visitor's book of the I.I.C.; legal documents regarding Reid's sedition trial. The letters of John G. Reid are also included in this collection.
Biography
Rev. Gilbert Reid was born in Laurel, NY in 1857 and died in Shanghai, China on 30 September 1927. He attended Whitestown Seminary (1875 graduate), then Hamilton College (A.B., 1879, A.M., 1888, and D.D., 1899), and Union Theological Seminary (1882 graduate). His missionary work in China began in 1882 and he established the International Institute of China (I.I.C.) located in Shanghai in 1894. The institute served as a meeting place for Chinese and foreigners and a educational facility for christian missions. Reid was also the editor of the Peking Post. During the war he was deported to Manila at the request of the Chinese government on the accusation of being a pro-German propagandist and sympathizer, returning to Shanghai in 1921.