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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Boudinot Currie Atterbury (1852–1930), from a wealthy New York family, trained to be a medical doctor and worked with the Presbyterian missions in China and later with Chinese communities in the USA.He attended Phillips Academy class of 1869 before going to Yale, leaving as a non-graduate in 1873. After three years work experience he attended medical school at Bellevue Hospital from where he graduated with a medical degree in 1878. He expanded his medical knowledge, working in New York, Paris and Palestine before moving to China as a medical missionary in 1879. He built a hospital in Peking with funding from family and friends, treating the poor and training Chinese medical students. In 1890 he married Mary Josephine Lowrie (1858-1910), the daughter of missionaries (Amelia and Reuben Post Lowrie) who had lived and worked in China. In 1896 he was awarded the Order of the Double Dragon by the Dowager Empress for his services during the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894.In 1894 Atterbury attended the medical mission at Pao-ting-fu whilst the resident doctor took leave. During his tenure he built, at his own expense, a dispensary and additional hospital rooms. He also donated funds at a later date for equipment to the hospital.Due to ill health he left China in about 1898 and did not return, but continued his work amongst the Chinese population in Pasadena, Los Angeles and Brooklyn. In 1900 several of his colleagues in China were killed during the Boxer uprising.Atterbury’s wife Josephine died in Pasadena in 1910 and he died on 21 May 1930 in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Their daughter Daisy (Marguerite) returned to China to continue the missionary work and was interned in the Japanese Weihsien Compound during WWII (repatriated 1943)."@en }

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