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1913-1956
Mss236
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Title: Bruner (Clara Raynor) Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1913-1956
Collection number: Mss236
Creator:
Rosamund Raynor Flygare
Extent: 1.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Bruner (Clara Raynor) Collection, Mss236,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Bruner, Clara Isabel Raynor
Bruner, Joseph W. (d. 1918)
Womn's Home Missionary Society (San Francisco,
Calif.)
Methodist Episcopal Church. Epworth League
Young Women's Christian associations
Women in missionary work -California
Nursing -California
Church work with youth -California
San Francisco (Calif.) -Social conditions
Clara Isabel Raynor Bruner studied at the San Francisco National
Training School (1913-1915) with the intention of becoming a medical
missionary. The School was operated under the auspices of the Women's Home
Missionary Society of the Mehtodist Episcopal Church. It began in 1890 to train
deaconesses and in 1901 it undertook to train women for other Christian work.
After graduating from the School Miss Raynor took nursing coursework in
Southern California (1915-1917). There she married Rev. Joseph W. Bruner,
minister at Lakeside Methodist Church near Hanford, Calif. (1917). The
following year Mr. Bruner began training for military chaplaincy, caught the
Spanish Influenza and died. Mrs. Bruner continued in Christian work,
participating in such groups as the Epworth League and the YWCA. She also
supported missionary work in China and in India.
The Bruner Collection consists chiefly of materials relating to the
period of Mrs. Bruner's education (1914-1925). It includes: publications of the
San Francisco National Training School; a scrapbook (1913-1920; biographical
materials on Rev. Bruner (1918); Mrs. Bruner's correspondence (1914-1956); and,
scattered clippings, programs and Methodist missionary periodicals.