Bridgman. References Bibliography Drake, Frederick W. "Bridgman in China in the early 19th-century," American Neptune 46.1 (1986): 34–42. Eliza Jane Bridgman, The Pioneer of American Missions to China: the life and labors of Elijah Coleman Bridgman (New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1864); online edition Missionary Herald; 58 (1862): 75-78 and 68 (1872): 110–112, provides informative obituaries of Elijah and Eliza Bridgman, respectively Eliza's Daughters of China, or Sketches of Domestic Life in the Celestial Empire (1853) has an introduction by Elijah. Bridgman, Elijah; Letters to Children from China; 1834 Lazich, Michael C.; E. C. Bridgman (1801-1861), America’s First Missionary to China 1801 births 1861 deaths People from Belchertown, Massachusetts Converts to Calvinism American Presbyterian ministers American Presbyterian missionaries Presbyterian missionaries in China Translators of the Bible into Chinese China–United States relations American expatriates in China American sinologists 19th-century translators Amherst College alumni Burials in Shanghai Missionary linguists 19th-century American clergy American magazine founders