Adelaide Daughaday
American missionary
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Adelaide Daughaday (March 2, 1845 – July 1, 1919) was an American Christian missionary in Japan.
Adelaide Daughaday | |
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Adelaide Daughaday, from a 1919 publication. | |
| Born | March 2, 1845 Guilford, New York |
| Died | July 1, 1919 (aged 74) Sapporo |
| Occupation | Christian missionary |
Early life
Mary Adelaide Daughaday was born in Guilford, New York, the daughter of William Hamilton Daughaday and Hannah Elizabeth Bell Daughaday.[1]
Career
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]
