Johanna Anderson (October 2, 1856 — December 1, 1904) was a missionary in Burma, the first missionary sent abroad from the Swedish Baptist Church in America.
Early life
Johanna P. Anderson was born in Värmland, Sweden, the daughter of Anders Andersson and Margaretta Christina Larsdotter Andersson. She moved to the United States as a child, with her parents, who settled in a Swedish-immigrant community in Moorhead, Minnesota.
[A. M. Bacon, "A Beautiful Life" The Helping Hand (February 1905): 21.]
Career
Anderson became the first Swedish Baptist missionary
[H. Leon McBeth, The Baptist Heritage (B&H Publishing 1987). ][Bill J. Leonard, Baptists in America (Columbia University Press 2012): 213. ][Robert E. Johnson, A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches (Cambridge University Press 2010): 173. ] in 1888, when she sailed to work in
Toungoo, teaching
Karen people children and overseeing local teachers at a school in Burma. She described her work, and Burmese people and customs, in writings for American publications.
[Johanna Anderson, "A Karen Missionary Meeting" Baptist Missionary Magazine (November 1892): 462-465.] She was sponsored by the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West.
[ "Missionaries of the American Baptist Missionary Union" Baptist Missionary Magazine (January 1895): 5.] She was back in the United States on furlough for health reasons
[ "Foreign Department" The Helping Hand (July 1898): 11.] from 1897 to 1900, giving lectures to support mission work.
[ "Autumnal Notes" The Helping Hand (January 1901): 14.] She returned to Burma in 1903, stationed at
Loikaw, where she died the following year.
[ Untitled news item, Baptist Missionary Magazine (January 1905): 45.]
Personal life
Anderson died in Burma in 1904, aged 47 years.
