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Reverend Andrew Stritmatter (33 October 1847 - 22 November 1880)[1] was a missionary with the Methodist Episcopal Church in China from 1867 to 1880.[2] He served The North China Mission. His spouse, Dr. Lucinda L. Combs Stritmatter, was the first physician assigned to China by the Women's Foreign Ministry Society. They married in 1877. Reverend Stritmatter had two sons both of whom were born abroad in China. He died in Denver, Colorado after traveling home to Ohio following an infection of tuberculosis.[3] His grave is located in Denver, Colorado.