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Paul Wakefield was a medical missionary in China, first stationed in Nanking under the Foreign Missionary Society of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) from 1905 to 1912 and later serving in Luchowfu until 1919 and in Wuchang under the Episcopal American Church Mission from 1919-1927. He was decorated by the Chinese Red Cross for flood relief and dyke reconstruction work along the Yangtze River. Wakefield received a Master's degree from Bethany College in 1907 and was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Graduate School of Tropical Medicine at Harvard University in 1917.
He may be buried in Mt. Auburn cemetery; but his bio is on Find A Grave in Hiram. His birth record lists him as "Paul Arthur" but death records as "Arthur Paul"
"Ohio Births and Christenings, 1821-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXM8-S96 : 19 January 2020), Paul Arthur Wakefield, 1878.
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