George Way Harley
| George Way Harley | |
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| Born |
8 August 1894 Asheville, North Carolina, US |
| Died | 7 November 1966 (aged 72) Merry Point, Lancaster County, Virginia, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Medical Doctor, Missionary |
| Known for | Ganta, Liberia mission |
George Way Harley (8 August 1894 – 7 November 1966) was an American Methodist medical missionary. He spent 35 years in Ganta, Liberia, where he established Ganta Hospital, a school and a church. He was known for his research into the local culture, and received many honors from the Liberian government and from American and British institutions. Major collections of ceremonial masks purchased by Harley in Liberia are held in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and the Anthropology Department of the College of William & Mary.
George Way Harley was born in Asheville, North Carolina on 8 August 1894 to George Gamewell Harley (1862–1925), a Methodist minister, and Lillie Way Harley. Harley wanted to become a missionary from an early age. He was raised in Brevard, Bessemer City, Norwood and Concord. He attended Trinity College (now Duke University) in Durham, North Carolina, and graduated with a B.A. in 1916. He was a high school teacher for a year in New Bern, North Carolina and then the head of a carpenter gang at Camp Jackson, South Carolina.
Harley enlisted in the Medical Corps in June 1918 and was assigned to the Chemical Warfare Unit in the Brady Laboratory of the Yale School of Medicine. He studied pathological museum techniques and embalming at McGill University before entering Yale University, where he obtained an M.D. in 1923. He then spent a year as an intern at the Municipal Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Harley married Winifred Jewell of Merrimac, Massachusetts on 4 August 1923. She had graduated from Bates College and taught high school before attending Yale University, where she met Harley. They would have three sons.
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