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Dr Stephen A.Hunter, his wife, Mrs.Sarah Hunter, and their children. Photograph courtesy of the family.

Dr. Stephen A. Hunter (1851-1923) was an American physician, of Peter Wyatt Squire’s Companion to the British Pharmacopeia,
Presbyterian minister, translator, and author who lived in Jinan, entitled Wanguo yaofang 萬國藥方, Shanghai: Meihua shuguan, 1890,
Shandong province with his wife and children from 1879 to 1891, which included a preface by the renowned viceroy and statesman Li
during the reign of the Guangxu emperor (r. 1875-1908). Before Hongzhang 李鴻章 (1823-1901). He also published on theological
arriving in China, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Washington and topics, including Analysis of Hebrews (c. 1890, Chinese language)
Jefferson College (1876), a master’s degree in divinity from Western and Studies in the Book of Revelation (1921, English language). Upon
Theological Seminary (1876), and a doctorate in medicine from their return to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Hunter and his family
Jefferson Medical College (1878). Shortly after finishing his studies, Dr. brought hundreds of artworks and objects from Asia, and exhibited
Hunter moved to Shandong, where he attended to the physical and and published them four years later in Chinese and Japanese Curios
spiritual health of the community as a Presbyterian medical missionary. Collected by the Rev. S. A. Hunter, LL.D., Missionary to China, South
While there, he learned the language and went by the name Hong Shiti Side Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, 28 October - 2 November 1895.
洪士提. Under this name, he wrote a Chinese language translation Parts of the collection have remained in the family for four generations.

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