Dyer Ball
Dyer Ball (June 3, 1796 – March 27, 1866) was an American missionary and medical doctor in China. Born in
St. Augustine High School there, and among the local African-American community. Meanwhile, as his appointment to a mission abroad was delayed due to financial circumstances, he also received a medical degree from a medical institution in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1837, and learned Chinese.[2]
He was sent to
Macao due to his wife's ailing health. He then moved to Hong Kong in 1843, where his wife died, and to Guangdong (Canton Province) in 1845, where he settled permanently.[1] In1846, he married Isabella Robertson, a missionary from Scotland.[3][4] Their son, James Dyer Ball, became Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court in Hong Kong.[5]: 456 His daughter from his first marriage, Elizabeth, became a missionary and was married to Andrew P. Happer in 1847.[6]
His work focused mainly on performing missionary work and preaching. He ran a boys' school and opened a publishing house, where he published Chinese literature, religious tracts and a popular Chinese almanac. He also used his medical experience to help the local population.
Dyer Ball died in Guangdong in 1866.[2] He is buried at the Mission Cemetery in Lianzhou.
References
- ^ a b c "Virtual American Biographies". famousamericans.net. Retrieved 2008-12-08.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity". Global China Center. Archived from the original on 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
- ^ "Ball, Dyer". 1828. 1955. Archived from the original on 2020-09-23.
- JSTOR 23891840.
- ^ Norton-Kyshe, James William (1898). History of the Laws and Courts of Hong Kong. Vol. II. London: T Fisher Unwin.
- ^ "Biographies -- Missionaries to China -- Presbyterian Heritage Center". www.phcmontreat.org. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- Alexander Wylie, Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese:Giving a List of their Publications and Obituary Notices of the Deceased, p108-109 American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai 1867
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