Kidder, Mary Eddy

Japanese: キダー - Ｋｉｄｄｅｒ，ＭａｒｙＥｄｄｙ

Year of death: June 25, 1910 (Meiji 43)
Born: January 31, 1834
Founder of Ferris Japanese-English Girls' School (Ferris Girls' Academy). Raised in Wardsboro, Vermont, USA, in the United States, in a devout Christian family. Studied at Monson Academy in Massachusetts and elsewhere, and worked as a teacher in Auburn, New York, New Jersey, and Brooklyn. She aspired to be an overseas missionary from an early age, and came to Japan in 1869 under the guidance of SR Brown, a pioneer in Japanese missionary work. In September 1870 (Meiji 3), she took over the private school run by Mrs. Clara L. Hepburn in the Yokohama Concession and began teaching English. In 1870, she separated the women's department and established the foundations of a girls' school. In 1875, she built a school building and a dormitory at 178 Yamate and opened Ferris Seminary, improving education. From 1881 onwards, she engaged in missionary work in Tokyo, Morioka and elsewhere with her husband ER Miller. From 1882 onwards, she was responsible for publishing the small Sunday school magazines "Joyful Sounds" and "Little Sounds" with Toru Miura. With a strong will, she became a pioneer in women's education in modern Japan, and throughout her life, she was interested in improving the status of women and children. <Works> Ferris University Archives Committee, ed., "Kidder Letters" <References> Louis Kohiyama, "American Women's Missionaries"

(Minako Suzuki)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

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没年：明治43.6.25(1910)
生年：1834.1.31
フェリス和英女学校(フェリス女学院)創立者。米国ヴァーモント州ワーズボロの敬虔なクリスチャン家庭に育つ。マサチューセッツ州のモンソンアカデミーなどで学び,ニューヨーク州オーバン,ニュージャージー,ブルックリンなどで教師として働く。早くから海外伝道を志し,1869年,日本伝道の先達S.R.ブラウンの導きで来日。明治3(1870)年9月,横浜居留地のクララ L.ヘボン夫人の塾を引き継ぎ英語教授などを開始。4年女子部のみを独立させて女学校の基礎をつくり,8年山手178番に校舎,寄宿舎を建てフェリス・セミナリーを開校,教育の充実をはかった。14年以降は夫E.R.ミラーと東京,盛岡などで伝道に従事。また15年からは三浦徹と共に日曜学校むけ小誌『喜の音』『小さき音』の出版の責任を負った。強い意志で近代日本の女子教育の開拓者となり,終生,女性・子供の地位改善が関心事であった。<著作>フェリス女学院資料整備委員会編『キダー書簡集』<参考文献>小檜山ルイ『アメリカ婦人宣教師』

(鈴木美南子)

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