Oberlin in Lorain County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Massacred

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, May 27, 2025

1. Massacred (North Panel)

Inscription.

Massacred
Charles Wesley Price • Eva Jane Price • Ernest Richmond Atwater • Elizabeth Graham Atwater
Children
Florence Price • Celia Bell Atwater • Bertha Bowen Atwater
Near Fenchowfu, Shansi, China
August 15, 1900

Ernestine Harriet Atwater • Mary Sanders Atwater
At Tai-Yuan, Shansi, China
July 9, 1900

Missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

Massacred
Dwight Howard Clapp • Mary Jane Clapp • Susan Rowena Bird • Mary Louise Partridge • George Louis Williams • Francis Ward Davis
At Taiku, Shansi, China,
July 31, 1900

Horace Tracy Pitkin • Mary Susan Morrill • Annie Allender Gould
At Paoting-Fu, China,
July 1, 1900

Missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

Erected 1903.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Religion & Religious Structures • Wars, Non-US.

Location. 41° 17.578′ N, 82° 13.195′ W. Memorial is in Oberlin, Ohio, in Lorain County. It is at the intersection of North Professor Street and Memorial Arch, on the right when traveling north on North Professor Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 50 N Professor St, Oberlin OH 44074, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Cleveland,

on the Lake Erie Shore,

and in the Western Reserve.

It is also in the American Midwest

and on the Great Lakes.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker:

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Memorial Arch (a few steps from this marker); Willard Van Orman Quine (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Downtown Oberlin Historic District (approx. 0.2 miles away); Peter Pindar Pease (approx. 0.2 miles away); Oberlin and the Underground Railroad (approx. 0.2 miles away); Antoinette Brown Blackwell and First Church in Oberlin (approx. 0.2 miles away); Charles M. Hall and Frank M. Jewett (approx. ¼ mile away); Welcome to Oberlin Heritage Center (approx. ¼ mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Oberlin.

Massacred (South Panel) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, May 27, 2025

2. Massacred (South Panel)

Memorial Arch image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, May 27, 2025

3. Memorial Arch

The memorial arch at Oberlin's Tappan Square was dedicated to the missionary victims of the Boxer Rebellion on May 14, 1903. The two memorial panels face each other on the interior of the arch.

Photographed by Ian Lefkowitz, May 27, 2025

4. Memorial Arch

A plaque donated by Oberlin's Class of 1994 recognizes the Chinese victims of the Boxer Rebellion.

Credits. This page was last revised on July 26, 2025. It was originally submitted on July 4, 2025, by Ian Lefkowitz of New York, New York. This page has been viewed 103 times since then and 24 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on July 4, 2025, by Ian Lefkowitz of New York, New York. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.