William M. Baird Papers

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The Rev. Dr. William M. Baird and his wife, Annie Laurie Adams Baird, were appointed to the Chosen (Korea) Mission in 1890 by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. From 1891 until 1897, they served at the Seoul, Fusan, and Taiku stations. In 1897, Baird was appointed president of the Pyengyang Academy and Union Christian College (also known as Sungsil Haktang and later Sungsil Taehak), a position that he held until his death in 1931. The William M. Baird Papers, 1885-1951 (bulk 1885-1931), consist of Baird's diaries, correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous items. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire physical collection has been digitized. Featured image: First All-Korea Presbytery Meeting, 1907.

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Title:
William M. Baird station, institutional, and personal reports, 1891-1931.
Description:
William M. Baird's reports, 1891-1931, though fairly complete, are not original copies and most likely duplicate those found in Record Group 140, Secretaries' Files, Board of Foreign Missions, Korea Mission, 1903-1973. Included are station, personal, and institutional reports, arranged chronologically.
Subject names:
Baird, William M. (William Martyn), 1862-1931., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:114845
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William M. Baird scrapbook of miscellaneous items, 1891-1902, 1914-1915.
Description:
William M. Baird's scrapbook of miscellaneous items, including publication excerpts, newspaper clippings, and mission reports, 1891-1902, 1914-1915.
Subject names:
Baird, William M. (William Martyn), 1862-1931., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Missionaries--Korea., Missions--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:114669
Title:
Presbyterian Missionaries, Nam Han, 1891.
Description:
The Korea Mission, July & Aug. 1891, in the pavilion out at Nam Han San Sung, put at their disposal by the King of Korea to escape the heat of Seoul City.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Baird, William M. (William Martyn), 1862-1931., Baird, Annie Laurie Adams, 1864-1916., Moffett, Samuel Austin, 1864-1939.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Women missionaries--Korea., Children of missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:113597
Title:
Pastor Kim Ik Du with Korean Christians.
Description:
Pastor Kim Ik Du with Korean Christians. Pastor Kim is here shown with a group from some church where he had been holding evangelistic meetings. This might have been anywhere in the Korean Peninsula. Mr. Kim was moderator of the General Assembly in 1920. From then on till World War II, he was probably the outstanding man in the Korean Presbyterian Church. The pastor of an important church - the South Gate Church in Seoul - his real influence was as an evangelist. During the twenties and thirties he was in constant demand from all parts of Korea to lead evangelistic meetings. At daybreak prayer meetings, he prayed for the sick + laid hands upon them. This became a dominant characteristic of his meetings. There were times when the healing emphasis was in danger of overshadowing the evangelistic emphasis which he always tried to maintain. After WWII, he stayed on in Hwanghae Province under the Communists. After the Inchon landing by MacArthur when the Communists were about to retreat North, one of their last acts was to shoot Pastor Kim.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea--P'yŏngyang., Clergy--Korea--P'yŏngyang.
Geographic subjects:
P'yŏngyang (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:113595

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