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- After a year spent in visiting family and friends across the country, John with his second wife returned to China to take over the management of the American Board Press in Peking, where he died just a few weeks before the Boxer Rebellion.
During the sojourn in America between his two trips to China, John L. Mateer had begun the collection of material for a Mateer genealogy. In a letter from Peking, written 16 March 1900 to Major Will A. McTeer he says, "The arrangements which I made before leaving home for printing the family history were not carried out. We shall be going home in two years or less and then I hope to do it." But he died less than six weeks after the date of this writing.
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Reference:
McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis McTeer, 1975, p 112.
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, d. 23 Apr 1900, Peking, China