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- 1890-1986 (Creation)
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1888 Born March 10 near Lehigh, Kansas 1891 Moved to El Reno, Oklahoma 1903 Moved to Gotebo, Oklahoma 1911-1914 Student at Hillsboro Academy and at Bethel Academy 1914-1918 Student at Bethel College and University of Chicago (1915-1916) 1918 June 9 married Matilda Kliewer at Grace Hill Mennonite Church 1918-1919 Student at University of Oklahoma, Norman 1919 Voths go to China as missionaries, building construction 1927 Return from China, to school at Iliff Seminary and Witmarsum Seminary 1929-1931 Farm near Hereford, Texas 1931 Return to China mission work 1939 Home to American on furlough; deputation travel in U. S. and Canada (1939-1942) 1942-1943 Serve as pastor of Emmanuel Church, Moundridge, Kansas 1943-1944 Mission survey trip to South America 1944-1947 Teach industrial arts in high schools in Montezuma and Lorraine, Kansas; pastor of Meadow Mennonite Church near Colby, Kansas 1947-1950 Return to China and Hong Kong 1950 Mission survey trip to Japan 1951-1954 Opened mission work on Kyushu Island in Japan 1954-1958 Opened mission work in Taiwan, taking over MCC work in Taiwan 1958 Return to U. S. 1958-1961 Deputation trips, mission work in Oraibi, Arizona 1962 Died May 13 at Bethel Deaconess Hospital, Newton, Kansas
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This collection contains extensive correspondence between Voths and their relatives, Foreign Mission Board members, and fellow missionaries during the time period from 1910 to 1970s. Additional materials such as diaries and clippings give a good overview of mission work in China during the height of General Conference Mennonite Mission involvement in that country, 1910s to 1950. Additional correspondence and printed items touch on the search for mission fields in South America, Japan, and Taiwan, and some involvement with American Indian work among the Hopis.
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open for research use
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Language of material
- Chinese
- English
- German
- Japanese