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Family
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Ferguson (family)
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Dates of existence
1875-1960
History
James Young Ferguson and Harriet Ferguson were Presbyterian missionaries to Formosa. James Young Ferguson was born in 1875. He studied arts, theology and medicine at Queen's University. He was ordained in 1905, and sent to northern Formosa (Taiwan) by the Presbyterian Church. The founder and first superintendent of Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei, completed in 1912, he returned to Canada in 1919 due to poor health. He was chief of staff and chief surgeon at Toronto East General Hospital for eighteen years, after which he turned to private practice. He died in 1965. Harriet Ferguson was married to James Young Ferguson. She served as a teacher at the Formosa mission between 1905 and 1919. Harriet Ferguson died in 1960.
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ON00340
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