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Abstract | Eugene Epperson Barnett was born in Florida and educated at Emory University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of North Carolina. The collection includes the recollections of Barnett, titled "As I Look Back: Recollections of Growing Up in America's Southland and of Twenty-six Years in Pre-Communist China," covering the years of his boyhood in Florida as the son of a Methodist minister and his collegiate and graduate education, but focusing chiefly on the years of his work with the Young Men's Christian Association in Hangchow and Shanghai, China, 1910-1936. |
Creator | Barnett, Eugene E. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Eugene E. Barnett (b. 1888) was born in Leesburg, Fla., to Robert H. Barnett, a Methodist minister, and Sarah Epperson Barnett. He graduated from Emory University, Oxford, Ga., 1907, and was a graduate student at Vanderbuilt University, Tenn., and the University of North Carolina where he also served as student secretary of the campus Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He later continued his work for the YMCA as in Hangchow, 1910-1921, and Shanghai, 1921-1936, China. He married Bertha Mae Smith in 1910. After 1936 he continued his domestic and international YMCA work based in New York and participated in numerous organizations to promote world peace, international relief work, and human relations.
Back to TopThe collection includes recollections of Eugene E. Barnett, titled "As I Look Back: Recollections of Growing Up in America's Southland and of Twenty-six Years in Pre-Communist China," covering the years of his boyhood in Florida as the son of a Methodist minister and his education at Emory, Vanderbilt, and the University of North Carolina, but focusing chiefly on the years of his work with the Young Men's Christian Association in Hangchow and Shanghai, China, 1910-1936.
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Folder 1-2
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"As I Look Back" |