About Edward Clemens Lord
Born 1817. Edward Clemens Lord was a missionary.
Edward Clemens Lord (or Edward C. Lord, D.D.) (1817–1887) was a Baptist missionary to China during the late Qing dynasty.
Early life Lord was born at Carlisle, New York, January 22, 1817.
His father was a Connecticut Yankee, his mother a native of Massachusetts. Edward had nine siblings, including a sister, Esther Lord McNeill, a temperance movement leader, who cared for Edward's children while he worked in China.
He was a graduate of the Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution. Lord died in China on 17 September 1887.
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