West Liberty History 1838-1938

Source: One Hundred Years of History
* Commemorating a Century of Progress in the West Liberty Community * WEST LIBERTY, IOWA
FOREIGN MISSION WORKER (Miss Ortha Lane, Ph.D.)

Miss Ortha Lane, Ph. D., who has been a missionary in China since 1919, was born in Lone Tree, Iowa, April 18, 1894, but when a small child moved with her parents to West Liberty where she was graduated from the high school in 1912. Continuing her education at Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, she received her B. A. degree. Later Miss Lane went to Chicago for a years training in missionary work previous to her going to Tiensen, China, M. E. Mission, under the Woman's Foreign Missionary board. With the exception of several furloughs she has been in China working among the women and children in North China Conference. While on furloughs Miss Lane attended Boston University from which she received her M. A. degree. Later majoring in religion at the University of Iowa, she received her Ph. D. degree.

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