Horace Tracy Pitkin

Horace Tracy Pitkin (1869–1900) was a missionary in China of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

[1] In the summer of 1889 at Dwight L. Moody's Northfield (Massachusetts) School, he signed the Student Volunteer Movement (SVM) pledge, indicating his intention to become a missionary.

Following graduation from Yale in 1892, he entered Union Theological Seminary, New York, then spent an interim year as traveling secretary for the SVM.

In 1894, with his fiancee, Letitia Thomas, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, he offered himself for service with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

In all, fourteen Presbyterian, Congregational, amid China Inland Mission missionaries were killed at Baoding.

[10] Pitkin's death motivated several students at Yale to create an organization to send missionaries to China.

Horace Tracy Pitkin
Pitkin Family at "Eaglesnest" New Hartford Connecticut, 1884. Horace Tracy Pitkin 2nd from left lying down, Father Horice Wells Pitkin far right, Sister Mary Yale Pitkin 2nd from right, Mother Lucy Tracy Yale 3rd from right in back
Horace Tracy Pitkin in Formal Attire Circa 1898