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Joseph Haven

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  1. 1.  Joseph Haven

    Notes:

    Minister.
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    Reference:
    McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis
    McTeer, 1975, p 109.

    Joseph — Mary Emerson. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Ada Haven  Descendancy chart to this point was born 19 Nov 1847, Brookline, Massachusetts; died 1 Aug 1936, Peking, China.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Ada Haven Descendancy chart to this point (1.Joseph1) 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]