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November 2001:A Missionary Family in Africa

Photo File: Haggett, Peggy Allen

"Ken and Ruth Allen (boys in car)/ Early days"


Kenneth and Ruth Allen served as medical workers with Africa Inland Mission in variety of places in Kenya: Kijabe, Githumu, Kaloleni, Gahini, Nairobi and Mwingi, among others. Their daughter, Peggy Allen Haggett, wrote a lovely detailed manuscript of their lives and ministry which does capture some of the experience of being an overseas American missionary family in the first half of the twentieth century. The manuscript is in Collection 81, Box 39, Folder 14. On this pages are some of the Allen family pictures that Peggy preserved, along with the family's original captions in quotes (""). [Any notes by the archivist are in brackets.]

Photo File: Haggett, Peggy Allen Photo File: Haggett, Peggy Allen













On left: "Matthew Wellington the last survivor of the young men who carried David Livingstone's body to the coast [in 1873]. He is explaining his aches + pains to my husband. Taken Mombassa, Sept. 1930"
On right: "Peggy and Flora with Matthew Wellington"

Photo File: Haggett, Peggy Allen

Photo File: Haggett, Peggy Allen


















On left: "Ken + Ruth Allen with Billy, Johnnie and Peggy / California / First furlough about 1923"
On right: "Framework of hut of the Agikuyu people of Kenya colony"
Photo File: Haggett, Peggy Allen Photo File: Haggett, Peggy Allen

On left: "Kikuyu girls"
On right: "Early days on safari"
Photo File: Haggett, Peggy Allen

"Ruth + Ken Allen 1953 at Naro Moru [in Kenya]"

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