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The Oerthers were originally Swiss Moravians who migrated to Alsace- Lorraine. The Wilhelm Oerther family moved from Alsace-Lorraine to Britain and after a few years, in 1751, they immigrated to Pennsylvania. Their son, Michael (1732-1808) and his wife, Catherine Dillon (1737-1805) settled in Fountain Valley, Maryland, and used the surname "Arter". Descendants moved to the Midwest and the west coast.
Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.