Biography of Charles Hartwell
From The Hartwells of America... by Lyman Willard Densmore, Hartwell & Lorenzen, Saginaw MI, 1956.
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CHARLES HARTWELL. Charles was graduated from Amherst College in 1849, was two years in Theological Seminary at East Windsor, Conn., ordained minister at Lincoln, Oct. 13, 1852, previously appointed by the ABCFM to the work in China, and sailed the following NOvember. He spent the lifetime of a generation in the field he occupied, and witnessed great progress in missionary wor, and marvellous changes in the relations existing between China and the western nations.
CHARLES STEARNS HARTWELL. He was graduated from Amherst College in 1877; received degrees of A.B. and A.M. He was a U.S. Marshal at Foochow in 1883-85; correspondent for various publications in China, England and the U.S.; was appointed American Consul to China; was in the Foochow consulate when Admiral Courbet destroyed the Chinese squadron and forts on the Min river in 1884, and was commended by the U.S. government dispatches for assistance rendered to American citizens at that time. He was for 40 years head of the English dept. at the Eastern district high school in Brooklyn, N.Y.; was president of the New York City Assn. of High School Teachers of English, and a member of the National Educational Assn. of New York.
EMILY SUSAN HARTWELL. She was graduated from Wheaton Seminary at Norton, Mass. in 1883; was first field Secretary of the Congregational Women of Minnesota in 1893-94; aciting head of Foochow China College, 1896-97; started raising money for the Union Kindergarten Training School; established an orphanage, an agricultural school, and a girls' industrial school, all in China. She was decorated by the President of China in 1919.