Ernest R. Atwater
Congregational minister/missionary to China ; Martyred Christian missionary during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion
About Ernest R. Atwater
Lived 1860 – 1898 (aged 37–38). Ernest R. Atwater was a missionary.
Rev. Ernest R. Atwater (September 14, 1865 – 1898) was a Congregational minister and missionary to China. He was married to Jennie Pond Atwater (1865–96), who died while in the China mission with her husband. In the Boxer Rebellion, Rev. Atwater, his four children by Jennie, Ernestine (1889–1900), Mary (1892–1900), Celia (circa 1894–??), and Bertha (1896–??), and Ernest's second wife, Elizabeth Graham Atwater were all killed.
Atwater was born in Oberlin, Ohio on September 14, 1865.
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Congregational minister/missionary to China ; Martyred Christian missionary during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion
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Ernest R. Atwater was born in 1860.
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Ernest R. Atwater died in 1898.
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Ernest R. Atwater was a missionary.
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