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Adelaide Daughaday

Adelaide Daughaday
An older white woman, grey hair in a bouffant updo, wearing a high-collared white lacy blouse and a dark jacket.
Adelaide Daughaday, from a 1919 publication.
BornMarch 2, 1845
Guilford, New York
DiedJuly 1, 1919
Sapporo
OccupationChristian missionary

Adelaide Daughaday (March 2, 1845 – July 1, 1919) was an American Christian missionary in Japan.

Early life

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Mary Adelaide Daughaday was born in Guilford, New York, the daughter of William Hamilton Daughaday and Hannah Elizabeth Bell Daughaday.[1]

Two women are seated on the floor in a Japanese-style room. The woman on the left is Japanese, wearing a shawl; the woman on the right is white, wearing western dress typical of the late nineteenth century.
Adelaide Daughaday (right), with an unnamed Japanese assistant, from a 1919 publication.

Career

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Daughaday arrived in Japan as a missionary in 1883. She taught at Baikwa Girls' School in Osaka, in Tottori, and for her last twenty years in Sapporo.[2][3] She made a particular effort for temperance in Japan.[1][4] She spent time lecturing in the United States on furloughs in 1895 to 1897,[5] and 1907 to 1908.[6][7]

Daughaday wrote about Japan for American church and secular publications.[8][9][10] In 1916, she described events surrounded the coronation of Emperor Taishō, which worried her because it included bottles of sake as imperial gifts.[11] One of her last reports from Sapporo mentioned the end of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic: "Like the rest of the world, Japan has suffered from influenza. Schools have been closed, and the ordinary routine of life confused."[12]

Personal life

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Daughaday died in Sapporo in 1919, aged 74 years.[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mary Adelaide Daughaday". The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad. 115: 320–321. August 1919.
  2. ^ Searle, Susan A. (1897). "Adelaide M. Daughaday". Japan Mission Annual: 19.
  3. ^ Chandler, Ada B. (January 1908). "One Woman's Work in Sapporo". Life and Light for Woman. 38: 13–15 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Tyrrell, Ian (2014-03-19). Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930. UNC Press Books. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-4696-2080-0.
  5. ^ "Women Aid Women". The Boston Globe. 1895-11-06. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-11-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Report on Japan Work to Berkshire Branch". The North Adams Transcript. 1907-11-20. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-11-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Yellow Press Only War Cause". Detroit Free Press. 1908-12-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-11-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Daughaday, Adelaide (November 1911). "The Japanese Woman Under Buddhism". Life and Light for Woman. 41: 489–493.
  9. ^ Daughaday, Adelaide (January 1917). "Signs of the Times in Japan". Life and Light for Woman. 47: 24–26 – via Internet Archive.
  10. ^ Daughaday, Adelaide (1885-06-28). "A Letter from Japan". Democrat and Chronicle. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-11-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Daughaday, Adelaide (February 1916). "The Emperor's Coronation from the Missionary Viewpoint". Life and Light for Woman. 46: 70–72.
  12. ^ "Field Correspondents". Life and Light for Woman. 49: 78. February 1919.
  13. ^ Rowland, Helen G. (September 1919). "Adelaide Daughaday: In Loving Appreciation". Life and Light for Woman. 49: 369–372.