Robert McCheyne Mateer

b 08 Feb 1853, , Adams, Pennsylvania			James McTeer
d 05 Sep 1921, Wei Hsien, , , China		William McTeer	Margaret Anderson
	William Mateer, Jr.	b 02 Dec 1738	William Carothers
	\| b 17 Jun 1784	Margaret Carothers	Jean
John Mateer	d 18 Aug 1829	b 1702
\|b 17 Nov 1807	\|	John Black
\|d 29 Jan 1875	Rebecca Black
\|	b May1785	Mary Robinson
Robert McCheyne Mateer	d May1841
\|Sarah Archibald-1 +
\|m 29 Mar 1882	William Diven
\|	\|b 03 Nov 1787
Mary Nelson Diven
b 09 Aug 1816	\|	Samuel Nelson
d 13 Mar 1896	Rebecca Nelson
	b 31 Aug 1789	Mary McMullen

Children

1		Mary Jean Archibald Mateer
2		Addison Alexander Mateer

Notes

Robert M. Mateer attended college at Monmouth, Illinois, before transferring to Princeton, where he graduated from the University in 1878, and from the Theological Seminary in 1881. That same year he went to China, where, except for one brief furlough in the States for reasons of health, he spent the remainder of his life as a missionary evangelist in southern Shantung province based at Wei Hsien.

'Of the varied and eminently successful labors of Dr. Mateer, it is impossible to do more than indicate briefly the apparently more important factors, such as the founding of the Boys' High School at Wei Hsien; his efficient aid in securing the funds for the Girls' High School ... together with his active interest in promoting other forms of educational work for the women and girls of this large field; his energy and zeal in devising plans for the support of the Chinese pastorate ...; the founding of numerous churches, and his continual efforts to secure pastors for them; his untiring efforts toward securing a properly educated, competent Chinese ministry; ... and the establishment of The Cities Evangelization Project ..., where some of the ablest Chinese in our midst, the finest product of our education, secular and religious, have been put in charge of extensive evangelistic and educational work, and given a free hand in its development.

'Dr. Mateer was particularly loved and trusted by the Chinese ... between him and them, lines east and west were obliterated - all were simply servants of one Master ... His highest honor was the regard in which he was held by our large body of Chinese pastors and church-workers.'

Source: McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 112-113.

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