Frederica Rutherford (Mead) Hiltner (1890 - 1977)

Born 15 Jun 1890 in Plainfield, Union, New Jersey

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Died 24 May 1977 at age 86 in Seattle, King, Washington

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Biography

Frederica Mead received her Bachelor's degree from Smith College (1911) and her Master's degree from Teachers College of Columbia University (1918). From 1914 to 1916, and again from 1918 to 1922, she served on the English faculty at Ginling College in Nanking and was instrumental in getting Smith to adopt Ginling as its "sister in the Orient." In 1923, Mead married Dr. Walter Hiltner, who was working as a physician in Shanghai. The Hiltner family returned to the United States in 1925, settling in Seattle. During a year spent volunteering with the interdenominational Omi Brotherhood in 1957, Mrs. Hiltner edited Poems of East and West (1958), a collection of writings by Merrill Vories, the Brotherhood's founder. She died in Seattle in 1977.

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• http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/ChinaCollegesProject/Smith/bios/fm1.html
• "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC54-8FJ : 10 March 2018), Fredricka R. Mead, 15 Jun 1890; citing Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton; FHL microfilm 494,215.
• "New Jersey State Census, 1905," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMHL-V3D : 12 March 2018), Fredrica R Mead in household of Lawrence Myers, , Union, New Jersey, United States; citing p. 1, line 46, Department of State, Trenton; FHL microfilm 1,688,626.