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The Donaldina Cameron House, formerly known as the Occidental Board Presbyterian Mission House and Chinese Presbyterian Mission House, is a historic building built in 1908, and located in Chinatown in San Francisco, California. The initial use of the building was as an early 20th-century safe house for Chinese girls and women. [2]
Donaldina Cameron (July 26, 1869 – January 4, 1968) was a New Zealand-born American Presbyterian missionary who was a pioneer in the fight against slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown, who helped more than 2,000 Chinese immigrant girls and women escape from forced prostitution or indentured servitude. [1]
Donaldina Cameron came to the home in 1895 and would become Superintendent just two years later. [5] Cameron was a strict teacher and initially Wu rebelled against her, but eventually they would grow close, with Wu calling Cameron "Lo Mo," meaning "Old Mother," and Cameron calling her ward "Blessed Tien."
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[2] [4] She helped to found a rescue home for Chinese women in San Francisco, later called the Donaldina Cameron House after Donaldina Cameron. [5] In 1888, she attended the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a delegate representing the Woman's Missionary Society. [6]
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Formerly the Occidental Board Presbyterian Mission House; residence of Donaldina Cameron. SFDL 45 Leale House: 2475 Pacific Avenue April 2, 1972 SFDL 46 House of the Flag: 1652–1656 Taylor Street May 12, 1972 SFDL 47 Nightingale House: 201 Buchanan Street October 1, 1972