Mary Ninde Gamewell

Mary Ninde Gamewell (, Ninde; 1858 – August 26, 1947) was an American writer and a missionary to China under the Methodist Board. Her book, Ming-Kwong, City of the Morning Light became the textbook on China issued by the Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions. Her earlier publications included We Two Alone in Europe (1897), William Xavier Ninde; a memorial (1902), The Gateway to China (1916), and New Life Currents in China (1919).

Early life Mary Louise Ninde was born in Adams, New York, 1858. Her father, William Xavier Ninde, was, for a time, president of Garrett Biblical Institute and later Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She had three brothers. She traveled extensively with him, his role being General Secretary of the China Christian Educational Association, which took him to every part of the country. When the China Home Missionary Society, an indigenous organization, was formed in 1918, and six Chinese missionaries were sent the following spring to the inaccessible province of Yunnan, Mrs. Gamewell was chosen by this group to accompany them as adviser. She spent several months in Yunnan, seeking to help in all possible ways during the difficult beginnings of a difficult work. For a number of years, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Cantonese Union Church, Shanghai, an independent Chinese Church. This made her membership on the Board the more significant. For ten years, Gamewell was a member of the National Committee of the Young Women's Christian Association of China.

Death Mary Ninde Gamewell died at the Clifton Springs Sanitarium, Clifton Springs, New York, August 26, 1947.

Selected works We Two Alone in Europe, 1897 William Xavier Ninde; a memorial, 1902 The Gateway to China: pictures of Shanghai ... Illustrated, 1916 New Life Currents in China, 1919 Ming Kwong, City of the Morning Light, 1924 If they only knew The Chinese Home Missionary Society