Missionary Introduction

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  • Christine H. Cameron

  • ◾ Korean name : Gam Gan-Ho-Won
  • ◾ Year of Birth : May 13, 1871 - April 12, 1945.
  • ◾ Academic background : The Nurses Training School of Germantown Hospital
  • ◾ Background and affiliation : Northern Presbyterian U.S.A.(NP)
  • ◾ Period of mission work in Korea : September 1905 - 1917/1918.
  • ◾ Period of mission work at Dongsan Hospital : September 1905 - 1909.
1. Christine H. Cameron was the first foreign nurse to come to Daegu

Christine Cameron was born in Troy, New York U.S. in 1871 and was educated at the School of Nursing at Germantown Hospital in Philadelphia and became a nurse. On February 20, 1905, she was appointed as a Korean missionary to the Northern Presbyterian U.S.A, and left the U.S. on August 16, the same year to visit Korea.

At the time of opening Jejungwon, there was no official nurse who could speak English. In September 1905, Cameron was appointed to the hospital as a nurse and she was the first nursing missionary in Daegu.

She assisted Director Johnson and Dr. Null in nursing the missionaries and residents for healing. When Director Johnson performed the operation, he had difficulties because there were no medical personnel, but when she arrived, it was possible for the medical staff to anesthetize and assist with surgery. In addition, Dr. Nell Null, the wife of Dr. Null, visited the patients' homes to help them treat themselves, so they had built a good relationship among local residents.

2. Christine H. Cameron participated in the local church community and made her own hospital supplies

Along with the missionaries of the Daegu Missionary Branch, they attended the local church's Bible class, guided praise, and provided health education . She organized the "the Dorcas Sewing Society" with Edith Johnson, where missionaries and hospital staff worked together to produce the necessary items for the hospital. She was in charge of nursing lectures at the invitation of Severance Nursing School, which opened in September 1906.

3. Medical missionary work in Seoul

After four years of ministry in Daegu, she was allowed to resign on January 30, 1909 and moved to Seoul to recover his health. In October 1909, he participated in the first annual meeting of the Korean Graduation Nursing Association and taught English, diet, and foreign nursing until 1911 at the nursing department training center of Bogu Inn, which was opened in 1903. It is presumed that she attended. On June 7, 1917, she attended the annual meeting of the Korean Nurses Association and returned to the United States the following year.

She was called by God in Philadelphia on April 12, 1945.

Woodbridge Johnson and Christine Cameron in the hospital room with the medical students