1915-1929
The Dozier Family Papers are located at the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. Charles Kelsey Dozier, his wife Maude Burke, his son Edwin Charles Dozier, and his wife, Mary Ellen Wiley, were Southern Baptist career missionaries to Japan from 1906-1973. The Dozier Family Papers span the years of active missionary service and contain articles, speeches, sermons, poetry, diaries, personal documentation, some photographs, and personal correspondence. This web presentation includes C. K. Dozier’s diaries from 1915-1929.
Charles Kelsey Dozier was born January 1, 1879, in LaGrange, Georgia, to Joel Henry Dozier and Ella Nora Amoss. He graduated from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Rev. Dozier arrived in Japan in 1906 as a missionary from the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. He founded the Seinan Gakuin school in 1916 and from 1917-1929, served as the institution’s second administrative head. C. K. Dozier died of a heart attack at age 54, on the field, on May 31, 1933.
