CHAPTER I

CALVIN WILSON MATEER

[Illustration: C. W. MATEER]

CALVIN WILSON MATEER

FORTY-FIVE YEARS A MISSIONARY

IN SHANTUNG, CHINA

A BIOGRAPHY

BY DANIEL W. FISHER

PHILADELPHIA

THE WESTMINSTER PRESS

1911

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY

THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF

PUBLICATION AND SABBATH SCHOOL WORK

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1911

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION 9

CHAPTER I

THE OLD HOME 15

Birth—The Cumberland Valley—Parentage—Brothers and Sisters,

Father, Mother, Grandfather—Removal to the “Hermitage”—Life on

the Farm—In the Home—Stories of Childhood and Youth.

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