Millican Family Papers

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Correspondence, biographical materials, and photographs documenting the Millican family's missionary experiences in China, and to a lesser extent in the Philippines, emphasizing the difficulties of their work during the Sino-Japanese War of the late 1930s and during the post-World War II years. Edith Millican's correspondence documents medical work in China during and after World War II, giving insight into the training and experiences of, and opportunities for, American women doctors. Also included are photographs documenting Edith Millican's time serving the Board of National Missions as a physician in New Mexico. View the collection guide to learn more. The entire collection has been digitized. Featured image: Aimee and Frank Millican just before going to China, 1907.

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Title:
Edith Millican with her car.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133459
Title:
Edith Millican with friend and a dog in China.
Subject names:
Millican family--Archives., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Women missionaries--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Dogs--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:133406
Title:
Millican family biographies.
Description:
Biographies of the Millican family. Frank and Aimee Millican's biographies released after their deaths in memoriam (1961 and 1974, respectively). Edith Millican's autobiography of her life after missionary service in China.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missions--Educational work--China., Evangelistic work--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Stanwood (Wash.), Duarte (Calif.), United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:124402
Title:
Edith Millican missionary service certificate, March 1943.
Description:
Edith Millican certificate from the Board of Foreign Missions which appointed her to the PCUSA China Council mission on April 20, 1942.
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
New York.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:124400
Title:
Edith Millican miscellaneous writings, 1943 to 1982.
Description:
Edith Millican miscellaneous writings, 1943 to 1982. It includes prayers, mission reports, lecture notes, and essays. Also found is a 1957 letter addressed to Edith from her mother, Aimee Millican.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author), Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974.
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Mora County (N.M.), Stanwood (Wash.), Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China), China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:124133
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican. Correspondence includes undated letters. Internal evidence was used to determine the approximate chronological order.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Millican family--Archives., Embudo Presbyterian Hospital (Embudo, N.M.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Embudo (N.M.), Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China), China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:123997
Title:
Edith Millican personal notebook, 1944 to 1948.
Description:
Edith Millican's personal notebook during her missionary service in China, 1944 to 1948. It includes journal entries, prayers and poetry.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Millican family--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Chenzhou (China), Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:123908
Title:
Edith Millican incoming correspondence, 1949 to 1984.
Description:
Edith Millican incoming correspondence, 1949 to 1984. Correspondence authored by Muriel Boone, Frank W. Newman, Archie R. Crouch, and other friends.
Creator:
Boone, Muriel, 1893- (author), Crouch, Archie R. (author), Newman, Frank W. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China., United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:123207
Title:
Edith Millican chapel talks notes.
Description:
Edith Millican chapel talks in Chinese, mostly given in Chenchow Hospital, (English notes).
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Chenzhou (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:123083
Title:
Edith Millican personal notebook, 1943 to 1946.
Description:
Edith Millican's personal notebook during her missionary service in China, 1943 to 1946. It includes date plans, meditations, study, chapel talks and miscellaneous notes regarding her trip to China.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122914
Title:
Edith Millican New Mexico Medical License, April 1942.
Description:
Edith Millican's medical license authorized by the New Mexico Board of Medical Examiners.
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., New Mexico Board of Medical Examiners.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122912
Title:
Edith Millican incoming correspondence, 1939 to 1948.
Description:
Edith Millican incoming correspondence, 1939 to 1948. Correspondence authored by Margaret B. Duncan, Marcia Kerr, Herrick B. Young, Muriel Boone, Frank W. Newman and other friends.
Creator:
Young, Herrick B. (author), Duncan, Margaret B. (author), Kerr, Marcia (author), Boone, Muriel, 1893- (author), Newman, Frank W. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China., United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122740
Title:
Edith Millican Certificate of Church Membership, 1949.
Description:
Edith Millican certificate of church membership at First Presbyterian Church at Germantown, Phila., Pa., April 14, 1949.
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., First Presbyterian Church of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122729
Title:
Edith Millican general letters, 1943 to 1967.
Description:
Edith Millican's "Dear Friends" letters, 1943 to 1967. The correspondence traces her medical missionary service in China, her residency at the Board of National Missions' Mora Valley Medical Unit in Cleveland, New Mexico, and her private practice in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Embudo Presbyterian Hospital (Embudo, N.M.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Embudo (N.M.), Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China), Las Vegas (N.M.), Guizhou (Hubei Sheng, China), Hunan Sheng (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122415
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican. Correspondence includes undated letters. Internal evidence was used to determine the approximate chronological order.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China., Santa Fe (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122202
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, 1940 to 1942.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, during her time at Women's Medical College of Philadelphia and at Embudo Presbyterian Hospital in Embudo, New Mexico, 1940 to 1942.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Womens Medical College of Philadelphia., Embudo Presbyterian Hospital (Embudo, N.M.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.), Embudo (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:121736
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, 1946 to 1948.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China), Hunan Sheng (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:120192
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence primarily to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican, 1943 to 1945.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Embudo Presbyterian Hospital (Embudo, N.M.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Embudo (N.M.), Melbourne (Vic.), Kolkata (India), Hunan Sheng (China), Guizhou (Hubei Sheng, China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:120038

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