William McKenzie (missionary)

[7] He also started a school which taught boys and girls together, "an unheard practice in a Confucian society.

Hunter Wells: About the first duty as a doctor I was called upon to perform was to investigate the suicide of Mr. McKenzie who was possessed of the erroneous idea of the appropriateness of isolation, exile, Korean food and so forth... when he shot himself he was a victim to the 'isolation-exile' theory.

[10] Elizabeth McCully's 1903 biography A Corn of Wheat makes no mention of it, but says: Through that hard night and the Sabbath morning following, he fought bravely for life; but the release was near and the "good soldier of Jesus Christ" was done with his earthly battles.

"[3] Yoo notes that His suicide in 1895, after less than two years in the field, prompted the Presbyterian Church Council of the Maritime to assume stricter control over the movement.

This change marked the formal beginning of organized Canadian Presbyterian mission work in Korea, which started in 1898.