![Springer, Helen Emily [Chapman] Rasmussen (1868-1946)](https://methodistmission200.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Springer-289x300.jpg "Springer, Helen Emily [Chapman] Rasmussen (1868-1946)")
Missionary explorer and founder of American Methodist education for girls in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) After hearing Bishop William Taylor, Helen Chapman volunteered to go to Africa as a self-supporting missionary. In 1891 she sailed for the Congo (Zaire). She married a Danish missionary, William Rasmussen, whom she met during the voyage. After six months, their...
Holiness Revivalist in India Born in Lawrenceville, Wisconsin, Abrams attended the Methodist-related Chicago Training School for Home and Foreign Missions. She arrived in Bombay, India, in 1887 as a missionary with the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1898, she left the Methodist post to work with Pandita Ramabai at the...
![Butler, William (1818-1899) and Clementina [Rowe] (1820-1913)](https://methodistmission200.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/butler_rowe-300x300.jpg "Butler, William (1818-1899) and Clementina [Rowe] (1820-1913)")
The Butlers were probably the best-known Methodist missionary couple in the late nineteenth century. Born in Ireland, William Butler underwent a conversion experience, joined the Wesleyan church, and became a minister. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1850. After being twice widowed, he wrote to Clementina Rowe in Ireland, who had been influenced by his preaching some years before...
