COLL/122 Guide to the Lee S. Huizenga Collection Huizenga, Lee S. Collection

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Guide to the Lee S. Huizenga Collection Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Lee S. Huizenga Collection 1901-1949 COLL/122 Lee S. Huizenga, 1881-1945 14.00 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church and medical missionary to China. The collection includes correspondence, sermon notes, reports to the supporting churches, manuscript books, articles, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and a large photographic collection on leprosy.
Biographical Information:

Lee S. Huizenga was born in Lioessens, Friesland, Netherlands in June of 1881. At just a year old, the Huizenga family moved to the United States and settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He attended Calvin College and Seminary. Before graduating from the seminary, he became an Industrial Instructor for 9 months at the Rehoboth Mission School and preached in churches throughout Gallup, New Mexico. It was at the Rehoboth Mission School where he would meet his bride-to-be, Matilda Van Dyken. Together they would have five children: Ann Harriet, Myrtle Leonora, Hannah Eunice, Faith Lois, and Philip Lee.

Once Huizenga graduated from Calvin Seminary, he became a pastor for the Christian Reformed Church in Englewood, New Jersey. While still attending to his responsibilities at the church, he also enrolled at the New York Homeopathic Medical College for medical school. With his passion for missionary work and his medical knowledge, Huizenga decided to return to the southwest, but his time to Tohatchi, New Mexico as a medical missionary. After serving the Tohatchi community, Huizenga went back to the east coast to do post-graduate work at the New York Ophthalmic Hospital and the New York Polyclinic.

In 1920, Huizenga was sent to China to help serve hospitals at Jukao (Rhu-gau) as the first foreign medical missionary from the Christian Reformed Church. He served as superintendent of the mission hospital at Jukao from 1923 to 1938. Once the war broke out with Japan, he moved to Shanghai and became a researcher and physician in leprosy and tuberculosis.

Because of his service to the treatment of tuberculosis, he was honored by having his portrait on the center stamp of each sheet of Christmas seals for China in 1947. In 1943, while in Shanghai, Huizenga and his family became prisoners of war. They were placed in the Chapei Civilian Assembly Center, a Japanese internment facility in Shanghai. Huizenga passed away on July 16, 1945 from a lingering illness.

Arrangement of Materials:

Folder level description

Detailed List of Contents id27917 Articles, Correspondence, Letters, Reports, Sermons 1901-1949 id27918 1 id27919 1 1 Diplomas, correspondence, report cards 1901-1910 id27920 1 2 Correspondence, sermons, certificates 1911-1915 id27921 1 3 Newspaper clippings, sermons, essays, letters 1916-1919 id27922 1 4 Sermons, newspaper articles early 1920s id27923 1 5 Letters, sermons, newspaper articles, missions minutes 1920-1922 id27924 1 6 Letters, booklets, medical charts 1923-1924 id27925 1 7 Letters to Angie Haan 1924-1926 id27926 1 8 Reports of Committee on Proposed Leper Hospital at Jukao 1925 id27927 1 9 Letters, missions report, newspaper articles 1925-1926 id27928 2 id27929 2 1 Letters, booklets 1927 id27930 2 2 Letters from mission board and various friends, Yale University program id27931 2 3 Letters, newspaper articles June - December 1928 id27932 2 4 Letters, mission letter, newspaper articles on leprosy 1929 id27933 2 5 Articles on leprosy, letters January - June 1930 id27934 2 6 Letters, mission articles July - December 1930 id27935 2 7 Missions and leprosy articles, letters January - July 1931 id27936 2 8 Leprosy articles, mission letters, correspondence July - December 1931 id27937 2 9 Missions reports, mission letters, newspaper articles, correspondence 1932 id27938 2 10 William Huizingh materials 1931-1932 id27939 3 id27940 3 1 Term paper of Ann, budget report, newspaper articles 1933 id27941 3 2 Mission report, letters January - June 1934 id27942 3 3 Mission report, letters August - October 1934 id27943 3 4 Missions report, letters, articles on missions November - December 1934 id27944 3 5 Letters January - June 1935 id27945 3 6 Letters, missions minutes, board reports July - December 1935 id27946 3 7 Newspaper clippings, mission letter January - February 1936 id27947 3 8 Newspaper articles March - April 1936 id27948 4 id27949 4 1 Book review, letters, articles May - December 1936 id27950 4 2 Mission letters, LaGrave anniversary booklet, letters articles, commencement program of Calvin College January - June 1937 id27951 4 3 Articles, letters July - August 1937 id27952 4 4 Articles on leprosy, letters September - November 1937 id27953 4 5 Articles, letters December 1937 id27954 4 6 Letters, articles January - March 1938 id27955 4 7 Letters, articles April - May 1938 id27956 4 8 Letters, articles June 1938 id27957 4 9 Articles, letters July - August 1938 id27958 4 10 Articles, letters September - October 1938 id27959 4 11 Pamphlets, letters November - December 1938 id27960 4 12 Letters, articles January - March 1939 id27961 5 id27962 5 1 Articles April - June 1939 id27963 5 2 Sermon notes, articles, correspondence July - September 1939 id27964 5 3 Articles, letters October - December 1939 id27965 5 4 Articles, letters January - June 1940 id27966 5 5 Articles, letters July - December 1940 id27967 5 6 Articles, sermon notes, letters January - June 1941 id27968 5 7 Newspaper, letters July - October 1941 id27969 5 8 Sermon notes, letters November - December 1941 id27970 5 9 Maps, sermon, and lecture notes 1942-1944 id27971 5 10 Copies of "Modern Trends: History of Tuberculosis" id27972 5 11 Photo collection of prints from the Orient id27973 6 id27974 6 1 Sympathy letters, articles of memorial July - August 1949 id27975 6 2 Letters to Mrs. Huizenga 1946-1948 id27976 6 3 Fragments of "Diseases of the Bible" id27977 6 4 Magazine clippings undated id27978 6 5 Magazine clippings undated Scope and Contents

(Dutch)

id27979 6 6 Letters to Phillip undated id27980 6 7 Bladzuiden Uit Mijn Dagboek id27981 6 8 Tuberculosis study 1937-1941 id27982 6 9 Leprosy in Legend and History id27983 6 10 Study of the cross symbol id27984 6 11 Hagiology and Leprosy id27985 6 12 "The Use of Serum of the Patient in the Fight Against the Use of Opium"
id27986 Miscellaneous Articles, Booklets, Maps, Papers id27987 7 id27988 7 1 Missionary Significance of the Song of Solomon 1937 id27989 7 2 Miscellaneous maps id27990 7 3 Miscellaneous papers id27991 7 4 Miscellaneous booklets id27992 7 5 Personal cards, letters, etc. id27993 7 6 Diseases of the Bible id27994 7 7 The Mystery of the Apostles id27995 8 id27996 8 1 Diseases of the Bible id27997 8 2 Leprosy literature id27998 8 3 Leprosy and Art, Leprosy and History id27999 9 id28000 9 1 Leprosy photographs, sermon notes id28001 Pictures, Letters, Minutes, Reports 1920-1936 id28002 10 id28003 10 1 Pictures of Chinese origin; Photographs: family; home in China; leper colony, China; leper settlement, Molakei, Hawaii id28004 10 2 Monthly Mission letters 1920-1924 id28005 10 3 Monthly reports to LaGrave November 1920 - September 1925 id28006 10 4 Monthly reports 1925-1929 id28007 10 5 Monthly reports 1930-1936 id28008 10 6 Reports of the China Mission September 1921 - March 1925 id28009 10 7 Mission minutes May 1925 - October 1929 id28010 10 8 Mission minutes 1930-1934 id28011 10 9 Minutes of Executive Committee of Christian Reformed Mission id28012 10 10 Autobiographical sketches id28013 10 11 Undated manuscripts id28014 10 12 Undated Chinese papers id28015 10 13 China Mission Minutes - extra copies id28016 Letters and Sermons id28017 11 id28018 11 1 Letters Undated id28019 11 2 Letters from Anne Undated id28020 11 3 Manuscripts Undated id28021 11 4 Sermons id28022 11 5 Sermons id28023 11 6 Sermons id28024 11 7 Sermons id28025 11 8 Sermons id28026 11 9 Dutch Sermons id28027 11 10 Sermons about Christ id28028 11 11 Sermons about Christian living id28029 12 id28030 12 1 Sermons about missions id28031 12 2 Sermon fragments id28032 12 3 Undated newspaper clippings id28033 12 4 Undated magazine clippings id28034 12 5 Red Cross commemorative stamps 1945 id28035 Letters to LaGrave Avenue CRC 1920-1938 id28036 13 id28037 13 1 Letters November 1920 - December 1, 1927 id28038 13 2 Letters January 1928 - January 1, 1931 id28039 13 3 Letters January 5, 1931 - December 31, 1933 id28040 13 4 Letters, reports January 31, 1934 - August 3, 1938 id28041 Varia 1916-1946 id28042 14 id28043 14 1 De Navaho Indianen 1916 Scope and Contents

[HERH E99.N3 H8]

id28044 14 2 Report of the Synodical Committee for Missions . . . 1919 id28045 14 3 Church with an Open door 1930 Scope and Contents

[HERH BX6827.H8]

id28046 14 4 Het Gebruik van Serum van den Patient 1935 id28047 14 5 John and Betty Stam Martyrs 1935 Scope and Contents

(2 editions); [HERH BV3427.S8 H8 - 2nd ed.]

id28048 14 6 And the Poor Have the Gospel Preached to Them 1937 id28049 14 7 Legislation and Leprosy 1937 id28050 14 8 id28051 14 9 Pressing On 1946 Scope and Contents

[HERH BV3427.H83 A3]

id28052 14 10 History of Leprosy in China 1934
id28053 Articles in North-China Herald [by L. S. Huizenga - determined by Kurt Selles, 2003] 1931-1938 Scope and Contents

[photocopy]

id28054 15 id28055 15 1 North-China Herald 1931-1932 id28056 15 2 North-China Herald 1933 id28057 15 3 North-China Herald 1934 id28058 15 4 North-China Herald 1935 id28059 15 5 North-China Herald 1936 id28060 15 6 North-China Herald 1937 id28061 15 7 North-China Herald 1938