1919-1930
The Minnie Ethel Ramsbottom Correspondence are located at the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives as part of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention Missionary Correspondence Collection. The Ramsbottom Correspondence includes 22 letters covering the years 1919-1930. The letters describe Ramsbottom’s arrival in China, the death of her father in 1921, her furlough back to the United States in 1925, various logistics of her travels to/from China and her salary on the field, her work at the Girls School in Tsinan, China, and her marriage to Charles Muller in 1930.
Minnie Ethel Ramsbottom (called Ethel) was born January 3, 1891 in Banner County, Nebraska, to William and Martha Abbie Lowe Ramsbottom. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, earned an A.B. degree from Grand River College in Grundy County, Missouri, in 1916, and a B.M.T. from the Woman’s Missionary Union Training School in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1918. She was appointed to the North China Mission by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention on September 3, 1919, and arrived in Tsinan, China, in October, 1919. Her area of mission service was educational work. She married Charles John Muller of the United States Navy, with the approval and assistance of fellow FMB missionaries to China, on July 26, 1930. She then resigned from the Foreign Mission Board on September 18, 1930.
