Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast
The Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast was founded on October 29, 1870 by Methodist Otis T. Gibson, et al. with the purpose to work among the slave girls in Chinatown, San Francisco, California. The WMSPC mainly taught English and other necessary skills to Asian women and girls who had been rescued from slavery or prostitution in San Francisco's Chinatown. In 1893 the WMSPC joined the Women's Home Missionary Society for this task. Together they opened the "Oriental Home for Chinese Women and Girls" at 912 Washington St. in San Francisco's Chinatown. This building was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake.
, as the home was called, was run by the Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast. After formal recognition by the church, it was incorporated into the Women's Home Missionary Society, later renamed Gum Moon.
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- Chinese-American history
- Christian missions in China
- 1870 establishments in California
- History of women in California
- History of San Francisco