Japan

Photograph Gideon Isaac Keirn was born in Columbia City, Indiana, on September 24, 1854. He graduated from Canton Theological School in New York State in 1879 and served Universalist churches in Mount Vernon, New York (1879-81), Fort Wayne, Indiana (1881...

Photograph M[ary]. Agnes Hathaway was born Dec. 2, 1863, in Bristol, N.Y., and raised in a Universalist family. She graduated in 1888 from Genesee Wesley University and taught school in New York State for about ten years before becoming Dean of Women at...

Postcard The Blackmer Universalist Girl's Home in Tokyo, Japan, was started in 1902 and prospered until World War II. For more information, see: Miller, Russell E. The Larger Hope: The Second Century of the Universalist Church in America, 1870-1970...