Hazel Todd Papers, 1899-1991

Hazel Todd was born in 1893 in Minnesota. She came with her parents to California in 1909 and lived in Sierra Madre until 1911 when the family moved to Strathmore. (NOTE: Excerpted from a news article dated December 3, 1941 at Strathmore, CA.) After schooling in Strathmore she graduated from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.

In 1920 Miss Todd went to China as a missionary for the China Inland Mission, serving first in Huban Province. For 21 years she devoted her time to that service, with the exception of three years spent on furlough at various times in the United States.

Miss Todd died on November 17, 1941 in Shucheng, Anhwei Province, from typhoid fever.

This file is made up mostly of letters written by Hazel Todd from China to her parents and to her sister Winifred. The letters present a vivid picture of the trials of missionaries in China before the Japanese invasion.