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Samuel G. McFarland

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the Suan Anan School, which had been established as a government school for Siamese boys of the higher classes, and became superintendent of education for the Siamese government. When the school closed down in 1892, he was assigned to the Bureau of Compilation, and wrote textbooks in Thai for the developing government school system, covering subjects such as botany, geography, geology, and bookkeeping. In his missionary work, he translated four books of the
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Samuel and Jane left for missionary work in Siam in 1860, setting sail on June 5 after a farewell meeting held in Raccoon Church. They established a mission in the town of Phetchaburi, and organized two churches and a school there. In 1879, at the invitation of King Chulalongkorn, he took charge of
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and pioneered modern medical education in the country. He continued to live in Siam his entire life. He wrote the first Thai medical textbooks, continued to edit and publish his father's dictionary, and set up a business to import the Smith Premier typewriters after Edwin's death.
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typewriter for Thai characters, and introduced it to the country in 1892. It later became widely adopted by the government, though he didn't live to see its popularity, having died at the age of 31 while in United States to study pharmacy.
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and the Kindergarten Association of Baltimore's training school, and lived in the United States, working as a kindergarten teacher in Washington, D.C. She donated Siamese material to the Smithsonian Institution in 1901.
185:(December 1, 1866 – May 3, 1942) studied medicine and dentistry in the United States and returned to Siam in 1891, where headed the newly established Royal Medical College at 386: 148:(June 27, 1864 – August 8, 1895), known as Edwin, graduated from Washington & Jefferson in 1884 and returned to Siam with William, becoming secretary to Prince 63: 361: 356: 197: 381: 104:
Due to his deteriorating health, McFarland returned with his wife to the United States in 1896. He died in Canonsburg April 26, 1897. Jane lived in
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Smalley, W.A. (1997). "Early Protestant Missionaries and the Development of Thailand's Hierarchy of Multilingualism". In Abramson, A.S. (ed.).
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in 1866, and which was continued for ten editions, the later ones edited and published after his death by his son George (
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The McFarlands had four children—three sons and one daughter, all born in Bangkok under the care of missionary doctor
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in 1860. He married his wife, Jane E. Hays, on May 3, 1860; she was a daughter (born 1824) of John Hays, of
135: 50:, establishing churches and a school there, and he later came into the service of the government of King 228: 42:(December 11, 1830 – April 26, 1897) was an American Presbyterian missionary who worked mainly in Siam ( 396: 391: 169: 149: 67: 117: 262: 316: 186: 105: 90:, treatise on the Christian Evidence, a synopsis of church history, and a book of sermons. 17: 350: 241: 173: 51: 134:
for a year before returning to Siam in 1884, entering government service under the
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Most noted among his works is an English–Thai dictionary, first published as the
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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Southeast Asian Linguistics Studies In Honor of Vichin Panupong
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in the class of 1857, and was ordained as a minister by the
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with their daughter Mary until her death on June 9, 1908.
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Samuel G. McFarland was born on December 11, 1830, in
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American Presbyterian missionary to Siam (1830–1897)
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English–Siamese Word Book

Thailand
Phetchaburi
Chulalongkorn
Smith Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Washington College
Presbytery of Washington
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Pentateuch
Westminster Confession of Faith
Washington, D.C.
Dan Beach Bradley
Washington & Jefferson College
Pittsburgh
Ministry of War
Damrong Rajanubhab
Minister of Public Instruction
Thai-language typewriter
Syracuse, New York
Smith Premier
George Bradley McFarland
Siriraj Hospital
Indiana State Normal School





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