Robert Elliott Speer
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He became active as an itinerant recruiter for the [[Student Volunteer Movement]] (SVM) from 1889 to 1890.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ8BFk9K0ToC|title=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions|last=Anderson|first=Gerald H. | publisher=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions|page=197| date=1998|isbn=9780802846808|access-date=24 May 2018}} |
He became active as an itinerant recruiter for the [[Student Volunteer Movement]] (SVM) from 1889 to 1890.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ8BFk9K0ToC|title=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions|last=Anderson|first=Gerald H. | publisher=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions|page=197| date=1998|isbn=9780802846808|access-date=24 May 2018}} |
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In 1891, he was appointed secretary of the [[American Presbyterian Mission]]. He visited missions in [[Iran|Persia]], India, China, Korea, and Japan in 1896–1897, and in South America in 1909 and later made similar tours. In Princeton he was greatly influenced by [[Arthur Tappan Pierson]]. Under his leadership, the foreign missions of the Presbyterian church became remarkably successful.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} Speer was specifically noted as being "obsessed" with Persia.{{cite book |last=Baskerville |first=Howard |date=2022 |title=An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville |url= |location=New York |publisher=W W Norton |page=18 |isbn=9781324004479 |access-date=}} |
In 1891, he was appointed secretary of the [[American Presbyterian Mission]]. He visited missions in [[Iran|Persia]], [[India]], [[China]], [[Korea]], and [[Japan]] in 1896–1897, and in South America in 1909 and later made similar tours. In Princeton he was greatly influenced by [[Arthur Tappan Pierson]]. Under his leadership, the foreign missions of the Presbyterian church became remarkably successful.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} Speer was specifically noted as being "obsessed" with Persia.{{cite book |last=Baskerville |first=Howard |date=2022 |title=An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville |url= |location=New York |publisher=W W Norton |page=18 |isbn=9781324004479 |access-date=}} He retired in 1937. |
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He married Emma Doll Bailey in 1893 and, together, they had five children, one of whom, Elliot Speer (1898–1934), became headmaster of [[Northfield Mount Hermon School]], where he was murdered in his home on campus, on September 14, 1934.[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19370526.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Madera Tribune, Volume LXX, Number 22, May 26, 1937; California Digital Newspaper Collection.] Their daughter [[Margaret Bailey Speer]] (1900–1997) was dean of [[Yenching University|Yenching Women's College]] in China in the 1930s, and headmistress of the [[Shipley School]] from 1944 to 1965.{{Cite news|last=Raftery|first=Kay|date=1997-09-25|title=Margaret Speer, 96, educator|pages=32|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62479978/margaret-speer-96-educatorkay-raftery/|access-date=2020-11-03|via=Newspapers.com}} |
He married Emma Doll Bailey in 1893 and, together, they had five children, one of whom, Elliot Speer (1898–1934), became headmaster of [[Northfield Mount Hermon School]], where he was murdered in his home on campus, on September 14, 1934.[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19370526.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Madera Tribune, Volume LXX, Number 22, May 26, 1937; California Digital Newspaper Collection.] Their daughter [[Margaret Bailey Speer]] (1900–1997) was dean of [[Yenching University|Yenching Women's College]] in China in the 1930s, and headmistress of the [[Shipley School]] from 1944 to 1965.{{Cite news|last=Raftery|first=Kay|date=1997-09-25|title=Margaret Speer, 96, educator|pages=32|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62479978/margaret-speer-96-educatorkay-raftery/|access-date=2020-11-03|via=Newspapers.com}} |
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