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Donald E. MacInnis (October 8, 1920 - December 11, 2005) was a Methodist missionary to China, educator and historian of China Missions.

Life
Donald MacInnis was born on October 8, 1920 in Jefferson, Wisconsin, and received education in University of California. In 1939 he went to Fujian, China and taught at the Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow, a Methodist mission school temporarily based at Yangkow in Shunchang County due to the Japanese invasion. He left China in 1941 and graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor's degree in 1942.

John Richard Wolfe was born in 1832 in the townland of Mallavonea, near Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland. He was the second son of farmer Richard Wolfe and Susan Croston, a Church of Ireland family. John followed a religious path early in his life being a Scripture Reader for the Irish Church Mission. He then trained as a missionary with the Church Missionary Society (C.M.S) in England and was assigned to Foochow in South China. He landed there in 1862 and successfully pursued his missionary work until he died in 1915. John married and had six children. He was made Archdeacon in 1887 and Vice-President of the C.M.S in 1910. We have produced a number of books that give an insight into aspects of his work and his family. This book contains accounts of the “Wu-Shih-Shan” affair and trial of 1879. (Source: Lulu)

George Blood Smyth ( Pinyin: Shī Měizhì; Foochow Romanized: Siĕ Mī-cé; September 22, 1854 - 1911). — at Currenrue, County Clare, Ireland; was converted at the age of sixteen; studied at Ranelagh School, Athlone, Ireland; A.B., College of the City of New York, 1876; B.D., Drew Theological Seminary, 1881; entered the Newark Conference, 1881; appointments: '81, '82, Linden, N. J.; '82 (Sept.), transferred to the Foo-chow Conference; '82, instructor in the Anglo-Chinese College, Foo-chow, China; '83, elected president of the college; holds the same position at the present time; '87, in the United Sates, owing to sickness; reserve delegate to the General Conference of 1888; secretary of the Foo-chow Conference for some years; married Miss Alice Barton Harris, Foo-chow, China, Jan. 24, 1884. Prest. Anglo-Chinese Coll., Foochow, since 1883. B.D., Drew Theol. Sem., 1880. Ordained, Meth. Episc. Church, 1882. Pastor at Linden, N. J., 1881-82. Ed. Min Sheng Hui Pao (Fu Chien Church Gazette) since 1890. Married, Jan., 1884, at Foochow, to Alice Barton Harris. George Blood Smyth. D.D. — B.A., College of the City of New York, 1876; B.D., Drew Theological Seminary, 1880. Born September 22, 1854. Currenrue, County Galway, Ireland. Came to America, 1870. Taught privately, 1876-77.