Adelaide Daughaday

Daughaday arrived in Japan as a missionary in 1883. She taught at Baikwa Girls' School in Osaka, in Tottori, and for her last twenty years in Sapporo.^[2][3] She made a particular effort for temperance in Japan.^[1][4] She spent time lecturing in the United States on furloughs in 1895 to 1897,^[5] and 1907 to 1908.^[6][7]

Daughaday wrote about Japan for American church and secular publications.^[8][9][10] In 1916, she described events surrounded the coronation of Emperor Taishō, which worried her because it included bottles of sake as imperial gifts.^[11] One of her last reports from Sapporo mentioned the end of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic: "Like the rest of the world, Japan has suffered from influenza. Schools have been closed, and the ordinary routine of life confused."^[12]

Daughaday died in Sapporo, Japan in 1919, aged 74 years.^[13]