Person Record

Metadata

Name

Brown, Margaret H.

Born

Dec. 26, 1887

Birthplace

Tiverton, Kincardine Township, Ontario

Deceased

1978

Deceased

Tiverton, Kincardine Township, Ontario

Father

P.J. (Peter James) Brown

Mother

Christena/Christina Mustard

Education

Attended Bruce-Kincardine U.S.S. No. 3 (Eskdale) 1894
Kincardine High School
Ottawa Normal School
Queen's University
M.A. (Hartford Seminary Foundation) and B.Paed (University of Toronto)

Occupation

Margaret Brown began her professional life as a teacher for four years. She was then dedicated to the mission field and was designated as a missionary to China in 1913 at Knox Presbyterian Church, Tiverton. Her missionary service was mainly at Tak Ding Hospital in Foochow. She also worked at a clinic in Yong Pent in the early 1950s, and returned to Canada from medical missionary service in 1956.

Margaret also became an author, translator and writer for a Chinese magazine. She was appointed to the Christian Literature Society in 1929.

Places

Born on lot 6, concession 12, Kincardine Township, Bruce County.
Tiverton
Henan province, China
Tak Ding in Foochow China
Shanghai

Sources

Sources:

Personalities / Miscellaneous Bruce and Kincardine Township. A2023.112.014. Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre Archives.

"Margaret H. Brown" Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_H._Brown, accessed March 4, 2021.

Vick, Dorothy. "From Quill to Ballpoint, 1591-1988." Owen Sound: Dorothy Vick, 1988 Print

"Margaret Ellen Brown" birth record, Ontario, Canada Births, 1832-1915, Ancestrylibrary.ca, accessed on Dec. 20/2021.