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William Scranton
William Scranton (1856–1922) was an American medical missionary and minister sent to Korea by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He founded Sibyeongwon hospital in Seoul and took part in founding the Sangdong, Ahyeon, and Dongdaemun churches. His mother, Mary Scranton, founded Ewha Haktang.
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- Mary ScrantonPeople
Mary Scranton (1832–1909) was the first woman missionary sent to Korea by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the Northern Methodist Church in the United States). In 1886 she founded Ewha Haktang, Korea's first modern educational institution for women.
- Chŏn Tŏk-kiPeople
Chŏn Tŏk-ki (1875–1914) was a Methodist minister who led Sangdong Church in Seoul during the Korean Empire period. He was also a nationalist activist who, through the Sangdong Youth Society and the Sangdong Youth Academy, took part in the movement against the Eulsa Treaty, the dispatch of secret envoys to The Hague, and the founding of the New People's Association (Sinminhoe).
- William BairdPeople
William Martyn Baird (1862–1931) was an American missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian), known in Korea as Bae Wi-ryang. He took part in early mission work in the Busan and Daegu regions, and in 1897 he founded Soongsil Academy in Pyongyang. He is therefore known as the founder of Soongsil University and Soongsil Middle and High Schools.
- William CareyPeople
William Carey (1761–1834) was an English Baptist minister and missionary to India. Through his writings arguing for the duty of foreign missions and his role in founding a missionary society, he is known as the "father of modern missions."
- William MillerPeople
William Miller (1782–1849) was an American Baptist lay preacher who, on the basis of calculations from the prophecies of Daniel, proclaimed that Christ would return in 1843–1844. He was the central figure of the nineteenth-century Advent movement and of the Great Disappointment.
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