| 1. | Ada Haven was born 19 Nov 1847, Brookline, Massachusetts; died 1 Aug 1936, Peking, China. Notes:
As Ada Haven, the second Mrs. Mateer, came to China in 1879 to take charge of a
school for girls. During the Boxer Uprising, June to August 1900, she and some
thirty of her charges were among the foreigners and Christian Chinese who were
beseiged in the British Legation at Peking awaiting the arrival of American
Troops.
In addition to missionary work and teaching Ada Mateer was a fine linguist and
a pioneer in the development of a simplified set of Chinese characters, which
could be used for mass publication and general education.
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Reference:
McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis
McTeer, 1975, p 110.
Ada married Calvin Wilson Mateer 25 Sep 1900, Chefoo, China. Calvin (son of John Mateer and Mary Nelson Diven) was born 9 Jan 1836, , Cumberland, Pennsylvania; was christened , Cumberland, Pennsylvania; died 28 Sep 1908, Tsingtao, China; was buried Chefoo, China. [Group Sheet]
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1847 - 1936 (88 years)