Ada Haven^[1]

1847 - 1936  (88 years)

• Name	Ada Haven
  Born	19 Nov 1847	Brookline, Massachusetts
  Gender	Female
  Died	1 Aug 1936	Peking, China
  Person ID	I8293	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2004

  
  

  Father	Joseph Haven
  Mother	Mary Emerson
  Family ID	F3075	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Calvin Wilson Mateer,   b. 9 Jan 1836, , Cumberland, Pennsylvania ,   d. 28 Sep 1908, Tsingtao, China  (Age 72 years)
  Married	25 Sep 1900	Chefoo, China
  Family ID	F3074	Group Sheet

  
  

• 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. ---------- Reference: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 110.

  
  

• Sources

  [S66] Calvin Wilson Mateer Forty-Five Years a Missionary in Shantung, China, Daniel W. Fisher, (The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, PA), 299. Wrote book called "Siege Days"