| Name |
Catherine Louise Roe Mabie [1] |
| Title |
Dr. |
| Birth |
24 Mar 1872 |
Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois  [2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Census |
3 Jun 1880 |
546 Hubbard Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois [3] |
- Watson Gleason, White, Male, 43, Self, Married, Bookkeeper, born in New York, Father born in Vermont, Mother born in New York
Armida Gleason, White, Female, 40, Wife, Married, Keeping House, born in New York, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Uri Gleason, White, Male, Son, S, Male, W, 8, born in Illinois, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Ethel Gleason, White, Female, Dau, S, Female, W, 2, born in Illinois, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Kate Mabie, White, Female, Niece, S, Female, W, 8, born in Illinois, Father born in New York, Mother born in England
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| Will |
19 Aug 1885 |
Harlem Township, Winnebago County, Illinois [4, 5] |
- Mentioned in the will are wife, Sylvina, son, John S. Mabie, daughters (Emily Lathrop), Almeda Gleason, and Aurilla Stickney. In the codicil written in Chicago on 16 Jan 1880, he added his granddaughter, Kate Louise Mabie, living with the W. W. Gleason family.
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| Occupation |
Between 1898 and 1941 [6] |
| Baptist medical missionary in the Congoand Author of Congo Crossing |
| Anecdote |
27 Jun 1907 [7] |
- Miss Catherine L Mabie, 35, Female, Single, arrived from Yokohama on 27 Jun 1907 on the SS Korea destined for Colton, California
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| Witness-Obituary |
20 Jan 1913 |
Belvidere, Illinois [8] |
- The following obituary notice of Mrs. Almeda V. Gleason, from the Colton, California, Daily Courier, of January 3, will he of interest to the friends in Belvidere. Mrs. Gleason was a cousin of Mrs. E. S. Keeler and J. H. Saxton of this it and J. C. Saxton, of Clear Lake, Wis. Her former home was in Rockford and she was an occasional visitor in Belvidere.
After a three weeks illness, Mrs. Almeda V. Gleason passed away Thursday' afternoon, January 2nd, at her home on North Fourth street.
Mrs. Gleason who was 73 years of age, was horn in New York, but in early childhood came to northern Illinois. In 1867 she was married to Watson W. Gleason of Chicago, in which city she lived until 1891, when, upon the death of her husband, she came to Colton with her son Uri O. Gleason, who has since died, and her daughter, Ethel, now Mrs. Elijah Lester, and has since then been a resident here,
From her youth up Mrs. Gleason has been an earnest and faithful Christian, constant in her attendance upon the church and its services given to visiting the sick and strangers, and ministering unto the needy.
Besides, her daughter, the deceased leaves to mourn her loss, a sister, Mrs. Arilla Stickney of Cotton, a brother Rev. J. S. Mabie of Long Beach and a niece, Dr. Katherine Mabie of Congo Africa, now visiting in this city. Since early girlhood, Mrs. Gleason had taken the place of mother to Miss Mabie, and it was a matter of much joy to her that she was able to be with her when the last summons came, Miss Mabie having come to Colton en route from Africa, just about a month ago.
Funeral services will be hold tomorrow morning, Saturday, at 10 a. m. from the Baptist church, Rev. C. J. Banks, officiating. Interment will he in Hermosa cemetery.
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| Memo |
17 Aug 1918 |
Boston, Massachusetts [2] |
- applied for a passport renewal. She stated that she had resided outside the United Stated in Matadi, Congo Belge, W. C. Africa, June 1898-June 1901; Nov 1902-Aug 1906; Sept 1908 to July 1912, and Sept 1913 to June 1916 doing Missionary Work for the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
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| Witness-Obituary |
31 May 1932 |
Rock Island, Illinois [9] |
- Word of the death of Rev. John Saxton Mabie, who served four years in the pastorate of the First Baptist Church in Rock Island from 1875, has been received here.
Rev. Mr. Mabie was 95 years of age and the oldest living graduate of the University of Chicago at the time of his death, which occurred May 21 at Long Beach Calif., where he lived for the last 30 years.
He was born in New York state May 3, 1837, and in 1858 enrolled in the University of Chicago. He was graduatedf in 1862 with two classmates, the first class to complete a full four years' course in that institution.
The records of the First Baptist church show that during 1875, in the first year of Mr. Mabie's pastorate, the church experienced the greatest revival in its history with 140 being received. Again in 1879, the fourth year of his service, the congregation celebrated the extinction of the church's debt.
Surviving the venerable clergyman are the widow, Mrs Emma Mabie, and four daughters, Dr Catherine Mabie, now in the African Congo; Mrs Edith Shell, Colton, Calif; Mrs P. H. Reed, Colton, Calif, and Mrs W. J. Fitzpatrick of Eureka, Calif.
Rev. Mr. Mabie was buried in Colton.
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| Witness-Obituary |
17 Jul 1942 |
Escondido, San Diego County, California [10] |
- Mrs Emma B Mabie of Long Beach, wife of the late John S Mabie, former pastor of the Baptist Church of Escondido, passed away July 9 in Phoenix, Ariz, where she had gone in February for her health.
Mrs Mabie is the last of a large family and the sister of the late William and John Thompson of Escondido. Her last few years were spent in Escondido with her niece, Gertrude Wales. Another niece is Miss Eloise Thompson, of Ivy street, Escondido....
It was a satisfaction for her to see one of her stepdaughters, Dr Catherine Mabie, who had just returned from Africa this spring where she was a surgeon under the Baptist Board for 43 years in the Belgian Congo.
Mr Leland Entrikin conducted the funeral service at the Moore Mortuary in Phoenix, Friday July 10.
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| Vote |
Between 1950 and 1963 |
687 Mayflower Road, Claremont, Los Angeles County, California [11] |
| Census |
20 Apr 1950 |
687 Mayflower Road, Claremont, Los Angeles County, California [12] |
- Catharine L Mabie, Head, White, Female, 78, never married, born in Illinois
|
| Anecdote |
- Dr. Catherine L. Mabie was born in a Baptist Parsonage in Rock Island, Illinois, March 24, 1872. Her mother died within a week and she was cared for in various homes until about four years old, when she was placed in the home of her father's sister, Mrs Watson Gleason of Chicago, Illinois, where she remained until adulthood. She had all of her education in Chicago, including that for an M.D. in an era when there were few women physicians.
In 1898 she sailed as a medical missionary to the Belgian Congo under the American Foreign Missionary Society where she served until her return to America in 1941. Her first field was at Mbanza Mantake
On furloughs she traveled extensively in Japan, China, Europe, and all around Africa, stopping at all ports. During furloughs she traveled in much of the United States, speaking in the north, and visiting Negro schools and colleges in the South.
Dr. Mabie was an outstanding educator and served on the faculty of the Kimpase Training School from 1912 to 1941. Her hygiene and physiology books continue to be widely used, and she will long be remembered by many hundreds of mothers who were the object of her tender ministry as an obstetrician.
She served on an educational commission in the Belgian Congo, known as the Phelps-Stokes Commission. She was author of numerous books in the Pikongo language and of "Congo Cameos" which is her autobiography.
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| Reference Number |
8346 |
| Death |
13 Jun 1963 |
Los Angeles County, California [14] |
| Person ID |
I8298 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1872 - 1963 (91 years)
