Edna Bruner Bulkley
Edna Bruner Bulkley | |
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| Born | July 14, 1883 Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Died | March 25, 1962 (age 78) Claremont, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Ednah Bruner Bulkley |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, Presbyterian missionary |
| Relatives | Lucius Duncan Bulkley (father-in-law) Henry Harrington Janeway (brother-in-law) |
Edna Bruner Bulkley (July 14, 1883 – March 25, 1962) was an American missionary in Thailand (Siam) from 1903 to 1934.
Early life
[edit]Bruner was born in Sacramento, California, the daughter of Elwood Bruner and Lillian J. Flint Bruner. Her father was an attorney and a pastor.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Bruner became a Presbyterian teaching missionary in Siam in 1903,[3] working at the Wang Lang Girls' School (Kullastri Wanglang) in Bangkok, with principal Edna Sarah Cole and other American women.[4][5] After she married, she helped to establish a hospital in Trang.[2][6] On furloughs in the United States in 1909–1910[7] and 1930,[8] she spoke to church and women's groups about her work.[9][10]
Personal life and legacy
[edit]Bruner married medical missionary Lucius Constant Bulkley in 1911, in Thailand.[11][12] His father was noted physician Lucius Duncan Bulkley,[13] and his sister was married to another notable physician, Henry Harrington Janeway. They had seven children born between 1912 and 1924. Her husband died in 1949,[14] and she died in 1962, at the age of 78, in Claremont, California.[6] In 2003, her daughter Mary Bulkley Stanton published Siam Was Our Home, a memoir of the Bulkley family's time in Thailand.[15][16] The school where Bruner taught in Bangkok was the precursor to the present-day Wattana Wittaya Girls Academy.[17]
References
[edit]- ^ "Edna Bulkley Funeral Will be Wednesday". The Sacramento Bee. 1962-03-26. p. 22. Retrieved 2025-01-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Officers Reelected, Reports Given at Missionary Session". Enterprise-Record. 1934-02-28. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-01-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Smith, Samuel J. (1909). Brief Sketches of Siam from 1833 to 1909. Printed at the Bangkolem Press. p. 28.
- ^ Tan, Wen Xuan (December 30, 2024). "Bridging the Distance: Female American missionaries in Thailand, 1851-1910". ISEAS Library. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
- ^ "Returned Missionary Brings Tidings of Sacramento Girl in the Far-Off Realm of Siam". The Sacramento Bee. 1904-05-19. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-01-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Edna Bruner Bulkley". The Sacramento Union. 1962-03-27. p. 16. Retrieved 2025-01-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Back from Siam after Long Stay; Miss Edna Bruner Returns from Missionary Fields". Sacramento Daily Union. June 17, 1909. p. 3 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ "MIssionary Society Entertained at Church". Progress-Bulletin. 1930-11-20. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-01-11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "MIssionary Meeting". The Marysville Appeal. 1910-01-12. p. 8. Retrieved 2025-01-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mrs. Hatfield and Miss Edna Bruner". Colusa Daily Sun. December 2, 1909. p. 3 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ Wells, Kenneth Elmer (1958). History of Protestant Work in Thailand, 1828-1958. Church of Christ in Thailand. p. 118.
- ^ "Social Notes of Local Interest". The Sacramento Bee. 1911-04-11. p. 16. Retrieved 2025-01-11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Lucius Duncan Bulkley, M.D. 1845-1928". Archives of Dermatology. 18 (5): 755. 1928-11-01. doi:10.1001/archderm.1928.02380170111011. ISSN 0003-987X.
- ^ "Lucius C. Bulkley, Noted Missionary, Dies in Niland". Progress-Bulletin. 1949-01-21. p. 8. Retrieved 2025-01-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Stanton, Mary Bulkley (2003). Siam was Our Home: A Narrative Memoir of Edna Bruner Bulkley's Years in Thailand in the 1900s, with Added Memories from Her Children. Hara Pub. ISBN 978-1-887542-14-2.
- ^ McMichael, Barbara (2004-03-07). "Authors' passion shines through". The Olympian. p. 25. Retrieved 2025-01-10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ McDonald, Edwin R. (1975-02-09). "Edna Cole Still Fondly Remembered in Thailand". St. Joseph News-Press. p. 13. Retrieved 2025-01-11 – via Newspapers.com.