Otis T. Gibson

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Otis T. Gibson (1825 – 1889) was a Methodist missionary. Born in Moira, New York he attended Dickinson College. There he became acquanted with Erastus Wentworth a Methodist and chair of Natural Philosophy.

He spent ten years in the Foochow area of China then returned to Moira then was transferred to San Francisco, California as head of the Methodist Church's "Chinese Domestic Mission" designed to minister to the swelling number of Chinese immigrants in area of the California Conference.

Gibson and his wife, Eliza, had instituted in 1870, the Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast, enlisting area Methodist women to organize the rescue and protection of exploited Chinese women of the slave trade.

[edit] External links

• Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast
• Charles Goodall Lee

[edit] References

• http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/g/ed_gibsonO.htm
• http://www.gbgm-umc.org/awrc/english/abegin.html
• The Chinese in America By Otis Gibson(ISBN 0405112726)