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Susan Norris Fitkin (March 31, 1870 – October 18, 1951) was a Canadian ordained minister, who served successively in the Society of Friends, the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, and finally in the Church of the Nazarene. Fitkin was the founder and first president of the Church of the Nazarene's Women's Foreign Missionary Society (now Nazarene Missions International) from September 1915 until her retirement in June 1948. Fitkin served twenty-four years on the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene. In 1924 Fitkin and her husband Abram Fitkin funded and founded the Fitkin Memorial Hospital in Manzini, Swaziland, and also funded and founded Nazarene Bible Training Schools in China, and Beirut, Lebanon,〔John W. Oliver, ("Emma Brown Malone: A Mother of Feminism?" ), ''Quaker History: The Bulletin of Friends Historical Association'' 88 (Spring 1999):4–12.〕 ==Early life and family== Susanah W. "Susie" Norris was born March 31, 1870 on a farm in Ely, Quebec, Canada),〔Ancestry.com. ''1900 United States Federal Census''. Census Place: Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut; Roll: T623_138; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 199.〕〔"Veteran Missions Head, Rev. Susan Fitkin, Dies", ''The Sun'' (Baltimore, MD) (October 20, 1951):9.〕〔One source indicates she was born in 1869. See Ancestry.com. California ''Death Index, 1940-1997'' (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Source Citation: Place: Alameda; Date: 18 Oct 1951; Social Security: 0.〕 the fourth oldest of the nine children of John Norris (born June 25, 1835 in Russelltown, Châteauguay, Quebec, Canada East; died December 20, 1887 in East Farnham, Quebec, Canada), a farmer and the foreman of a lumber camp, and his wife, Susannah Townsend Hall (born March 16, 1834 in East Farnham, Quebec, Canada East; died March 28, 1918 in Cliftondale, Massachusetts).〔Source Citation: (SAR Membership Number: 81449 ). Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.(Susannah Norris ).〕 John Norris and Susannah Hall were married on April 10, 1855 in Farnham East. Her siblings were George Miron Norris (born July 1, 1859 in East Farnham, Quebec), Hannah Norris (born August 8, 1861 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec; died August 23, 1897 in Shefford, Quebec), Annie Louise Norris (born May 2, 1865 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec),〔Baptism Year: 1887. Baptism Location: Ely, Québec. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.〕 Jane "Janie" May Norris (born March 4, 1872 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec),〔Baptism Year: 1886. Baptism Location: East Farnham, Québec. Ancestry.com. Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.〕 John Milton "Johnny" Norris (born November 15, 1873 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec),〔 Emma Norris (born April 11, 1875 in Quebec, Canada),〔 Charles Newel Norris (born January 29, 1877 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec),〔 Alice "Nellie" Norris (born June 15, 1880 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec).〔〔Source Citation: Year: 1891; Census Place: Farnham East, Brome, Quebec; Roll: T-6388; Family No: 121. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1891 Census of Canada (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.〕 By the time of the first Canadian census in April 1871, the Norris family had been living on a farm in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec for about eleven years, with John described as a Methodist farmer, while Susannah and their four children (including one-year-old "Suza") were described as Episcopalians.〔Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1871 Census of Canada (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Source Citation: Year: 1871; Census Place: Ste Cécile de Milton, Shefford, Quebec; Roll: C-10073; Page: 86; Family No: 307.〕 Later Norris' parents were members of the Society of Friends, who were active in the temperance reform movement. Her mother served once as a delegate to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention in Ottawa.〔Stan Ingersol, ("Mother of Missions: The Evangelistic Vision of Susan Norris Fitkin" ), ''Herald of Holiness'' (January, 1991).〕 At the time of the second Canadian census in April 1881, John and Suzanne Norris and their nine children (including 11-year-old "Suza") were still living on a farm in Ely South, in Shefford, Quebec, and were described as Episcopalians.〔Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1881 Census of Canada (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.Source Citation: Year: 1881; Census Place: Ely South, Shefford, Quebec; Roll: C_13201; Page: 34; Family No: 158.〕 However, later in 1881, the Norris family moved back to East Farnham, Quebec, where Susanna's parents George C. Hall and Hannah Hall held longstanding membership in a Quaker meeting house.〔Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1861 Census of Canada (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Source Citation: Year: 1861; Census Place: Brome, Canada East; Roll: C-1270; Page: 117.〕 The Norris family attended Quaker worship but also attended the local Church of England.〔 On February 23, 1886, five of John and Susanna's younger children were baptized by Revd John Merrick in the Church of England at Adamsville in East Farnham.〔 On June 19, 1887 Anna Louise was baptized by Charles P. Abbott in the Church of England in Ely.〔 On December 20, 1887, Norris' father John died in East Farnham, and was buried in quaker cemetery, Friends Cemetery East Farnham Monteregie Region, Quebec, Canada〔Ancestry.ca Canada Finda a Grave (on-line ) ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susan Norris Fitkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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