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| Sophia Elizabeth Cook Amos Zimmerman | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 23, 1856 Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States of America |
| Died | November 23, 1930(aged 74) Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States of America |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Missionary |
Sophia Elizabeth Cooks Amos Zimmerman (born July 23, 1856) was an American missionary.
She was born in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, on June 23, 1856 to real estate magnate Christian Cook and Katherine Hey Cook. She was the eldest of five, with two younger sisters, Emma Margaret Cook and Anna Louise Cook; and two younger brothers, Charles C. Cook and George C. Cook. She married the son of her brother's business partner, Charles L. Amos, with whom she had three sons Jacob Amos (1878 - 1880, Charles Louis Amos (1880 - 1955) and John Jacob Amos (1882 - 1890). She was widowed on June 27, 1887. She married Rev. Jeremiah Zimmerman on January 21, 1890.
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, in the United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, and Yonkers.
Onondaga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 467,026. The county seat is Syracuse.
New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.54 million residents in 2018, it is the fourth most populous state. To distinguish the state from the city in the state with the same name, it is sometimes called New York State.
She was the President of the Woman's Missionary Society of the First English Lutheran Church. She was a generous patron of religious and educational institutions, having given large sums to the Guntur Mission, India, the Deaconess Home in Baltimore, Maryland, the Pastor's Fund of the United Lutheran Church and also the Gettysburg Theological Seminary. [1] She died on November 23, 1930. [1] The terms of her will provided for the establishment of a $50,000 trust fund for the Gettysburg College Library, named the Dr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Zimmerman Fund, in 1931. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Kugler Hospital is a Landmark of Guntur City. Dr. Anna Sarah Kugler arrived in Guntur, India, Andhra Pradesh, in November 1883. With very few funds, and working as a teacher part-time, she started a small dispensary and began planning for a hospital for women. Her dream was realized as the American Evangelical Lutheran Mission Hospital, Guntur, India, which opened on 22 June 1897. The 50-bed hospital was established on an 18-acre (7.3 ha) campus and was considered one of the best in India, with surgical facilities, maternity and children's wards, and a nursing school. Dr. Kugler died in Guntur on 26 July 1930 and shortly after her death the hospital was renamed Kugler Hospital.
She is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse. [5]
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College. In the 19th century it was the largest and most important of American missionary organizations and consisted of participants from Reformed traditions such as Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and German Reformed churches.
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural".
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, born Elizabeth Reeve Cutter was an American poet in the early 20th century, and she became the first female head of Smith College, acting as college president from 1939 to 1940, but she was never officially granted the title. She was the wife of U.S. Senator Dwight Morrow and the mother of four children, which included Anne Morrow Lindbergh, distinguished American author and wife of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh.
Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness was an American businessman based in Cleveland, Ohio. He invested as a silent partner with John D. Rockefeller, Sr. in the founding of Standard Oil. He served as a director of Standard Oil until his death.
Samuel Simon Schmucker was a German-American Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was integral to the founding of the Lutheran church body known as the General Synod, as well as the oldest continuously-operating Lutheran seminary and college in North America.
Mrs. Prosser (pseud.) or Sophie Amelia Prosser, born Sophia Amelia Dibdin,, was a British author. She was known for her sentimental morality tales and fables.
Daniel Alexander Payne was an American bishop, educator, college administrator and author. A major shaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.), Payne stressed education and preparation of ministers and introduced more order in the church, becoming its sixth bishop and serving for more than four decades (1852–1893) as well as becoming one of the founders of Wilberforce University in Ohio in 1856. In 1863 the AME Church bought the college and chose Payne to lead it; he became the first African-American president of a college in the United States and served in that position until 1877.
Charles Porterfield Krauth was a pastor, theologian and educator in the Lutheran branch of Christianity. He is a leading figure in the revival of the Lutheran Confessions connected to Neo-Lutheranism in the United States.
Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower was the mother of U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969), university president Milton Stover Eisenhower (1899–1985), Edgar N. Eisenhower (1889–1971), and Earl D. Eisenhower (1898–1968).
John Christian Frederick Heyer was the first missionary sent abroad by Lutherans in the United States. He founded the Guntur Mission in Andhra Pradesh, India. "Father Heyer" is commemorated as a missionary in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on November 7, along with Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg and Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen.
Anna Rice Cooke was a patron of the arts and the founder of the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Events from the year 1813 in the United States.
Amos Starr Cooke was an American educator and businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was patriarch of a family that influenced Hawaii during the 20th century.
The history of the University of Kansas can be traced back to 1855, when efforts were begun to establish a "University of the Territory of Kansas." Nine years later in 1864, together with the help of Amos Adams Lawrence, former Kansas Governor Charles L. Robinson, and several other prominent figures, the Kansas Legislature chartered the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The university was initially funded by a $15,000 endowment on a 40-acre (160,000 m2) allotment of land from Charles Robinson and his wife Sara. The university commenced preparatory-level classes in 1866 and college-level classes in 1869.
Amos Sutton was an English General Baptist missionary to Odisha, India, and hymn writer. He published the first English grammar of the Odia language (1831), a History (1839), and Geography (1840), then the first dictionary of Odia (1841–3), as well as a translation of the Bible (1842–5). He also composed a hymn to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne": "Hail, sweetest, dearest tie, that binds" and wrote a History of the mission to Orissa: the site of the temple of Juggernaut (1835).
The Advanced School for Girls was a South Australian State school whose purpose was to prepare girls to qualify for entry to the University of Adelaide.
Gettysburg Academy was an antebellum boys' boarding school for which the vernacular architecture schoolhouse was the "first home" of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and Gettysburg College.
Elizabeth Fry Ashmead Schaeffer, was the founder of the Lutheran Home at Germantown for Orphans and an active leader of many ministries of the Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. She was the wife of Rev. Charles William Schaeffer and mother of four children.
Julia Jacobs Harpster was an American missionary working among women in India.
