Sarah Luella Miner
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Sarah Luella Miner (1861-1935, OC 1884) was an educator and Christian missionary. She received her A.B. in 1884 and her A.M. in 1897, both from Oberlin College. Miner was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Oberlin in 1914. After receiving an appointment from the American Board for Service in China, Miner taught at the Luho Academy for boys in Tungchow from 1888 to 1890. She was also a professor at the North China Union College for men between 1890 and 1902. From 1903 to 1913, Miner was the principal of the Bridgman Academy for girls in Peking. In 1905, she founded North China Union College, which was the first college for women in China. At that institution, Miner served as president until 1920 and as college dean from 1920 to 1922. Besides her work in academia, Miner was president of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children from 1914 to 1915. She served as foreign advisor to the Peiping Women’s Red Cross Society and on the executive committee of the National Christian Council of China. She was in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and wrote Two Heroes of Cathay, which described her experiences from that time.
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Student File (Sarah Luella Miner), Alumni and Development Records, Box 719, O.C.A.
