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Notes Introduction 1. Buck, Imperial Woman, 352. 2. Na Genzheng, in discussion with the author, April 6, 2008; Martin, The Siege in Peking, 48. 3. Sarah Buchan Jewell, interviewed by the author, October 25, 2008. 4. Croll, Feminism and Socialism in China, 12–13. 5. Conger, Letters from China, 221. Chapter 1 Farmer’s daughter 1. Cherrington, “Universalism: A Kind and Gentle Religious Tradition was Once Dynamic in Galesburg,”Zephyr (Galesburg, Illinois), January 18, 1996. According to the 1850 census for Elkhart, Indiana, the Pike family included an Augusta Pike, apparently Edward’s 25-year-old sister, described by the census taker as an “idiot” (i.e., living with what we would now term mental retardation or an intellectual disability). So Sarah, nine at the time, grew up in an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding of yet another kind of marginalized person that Universalists believed should be treated with more respect, the mentally challenged. 280 Notes to pages 8–11 2. The Pike daughters were: Mary, Sarah, Lavinia, and Fanny (US Census, City of Galesburg, Illinois, July 19, 1860). Being a farmer’s daughter in the American Midwest certainly had its advantages: over a quarter of the women who went to Chinese missions were daughters of farmers, attributing their “missionary motivation” to the liberty of body and spirit they had known as girls growing up on farms. See Hunter, The Gospel of Gentility, 29. 3. Conger, Old China and Young America, 88–89, 95–96; Sarah Conger letter to Laura Conger Buchan, June 20, 1903. Sarah Pike Conger Papers, #991-12, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. 4. Conger, Letters from China, 296. 5. Seeley, Manual of College Literary Societies, 30–31; Ladies’ Repository 38, p. 278; Conger, Old China and Young America, 119; Leonard, Woman’s Who’s Who of America, 199; Confucius, The Four Books, “Analects,” 2(4): 135–136. 6. The Congers were also on the earliest complete list of abolitionists in Illinois, dated September 27, 1837. See Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly, XII, no. 3 (1980). For White Mayflower ancestry, see entries for F. Eaton/ S. Fuller/White, in van Antwerp et al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 1, 139. 7. US Census, City of Galesburg, Illinois, July 26, 1860; Webster, Annals of Knox County, Annals of Galesburg, available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ il/county/knox/annuals_knox_5.htm (accessed October 7, 2010). 8. Cherrington, Zephyr; Lombard College Yearbook, class of 1890, Knox College; Edwin Conger letter to Laura Conger Buchan, September 20, 1901, Sarah Pike Conger Papers, #991-12. 9. “Memory of E. H. Conger,” Republican Register; “Conger, Edwin Hurd,” entry in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000675; Rex Cherrington, email correspondence with the author, August 25, 2008. First raised by Paul Raymond Kendall, president of Lombard College, Edwin’s regiment was mustered in Knoxville, Illinois on September 1, 1862. 10. Entry for Edwin Hurd Conger in Biographical Directory of the United States Congress online. See “Memory of E. H. Conger,” Republican Register. 11. Conger, Old China and Young America, 141–142. 12. Diary of Sarah Pike Conger, Vol. 1, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1991–217; Conger, Old China and Young America, 156–160; Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, 486. 13. Obituary for Edwin H, Conger, Daily Mail, May 18, 1907; Lombard yearbook, class of 1890, Knox College; entry for Edwin Hurd Conger, Biographical Directory of the United State Congress online. 281 Notes to pages 11–18 14. The History of Dallas County, p. 546; the Winterset, Madisonian, May 22, 1873. 15. Sarah Buchan Jewell, interviewed by the author, October 25, 2008. 16. “The Conger Family of Illinois,” Political Graveyard, available at http:// politicalgraveyard.com/families/15583.html. 17. Clipping from 1901 shared with the author by Rex Cherrington; Lombard yearbook, class of 1890, Knox College. 18. “Conger is Not a Candidate, But He Will Run If Urged,” Anaconda Standard, April 26, 1901; Conger, Old China and Young America, 143–144. 19. Conger, Letters from China, 3. 20. Carpenter, South America, Carpenter’s Geographical Reader, 523–524. 21. Ibid., 524–528. 22. Joseph, LeGrand, and Salvatore (eds.), Close Encounters of Empire, 173–196. 23. Conger, Old China and Young America, 119–120; Sarah Buchan Jewell, interviewed by the author, October 25, 2008. 24. Sarah Conger to Mary Baker Eddy...