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This article is about the American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Pyongyang, Korea. For the U.S. Representative from New York, see William H. Noble.

William Noble
Hangul	노보을 or 노블
Hanja	魯普乙
Revised Romanization	No Bo-eul or Nobeul
McCune–Reischauer	No Boŭl or Nobŭl

William Arthur Noble (September 13, 1866 – January 6, 1945), who published under the name W. Arthur Noble, was an American missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Pyongyang, Korea and Seoul, Korea from 1892 to 1934.

Biography

Noble was born in Springville, PA. He was married to Mattie Wilcox Noble; their children included Ruth Noble Appenzeller Knight, Harold Joyce Noble, born January 19, 1903, who went on to become a Japanese language officer with the United States Marine Corps during World War II and later a United States diplomat in South Korea, Marine Biology professor at University of the Pacific and director of the Marine Research Laboratory at Dillon's Beach, CA, Alden Earl Noble, (1899-1961), and identical twins, Glenn Arthur Noble and Elmer Ray Noble, born January 16, 1909. Noble died in Stockton, CA.

Publications

• Ewa: A Tale of Korea. Jennings and Graham. 1906.

References

• Choi, Hyaeweol (Spring 2006). "Gendering a New Nation in Missionary Discourse: An Analysis of W. Arthur Noble's Ewa". Korea Journal. 46 (1).
• The Journals of Mattie Wilcox Noble, 1892 - 1934. Seoul: Institute of Korean Church History Study. 1993.
• Shavit, David (1990). "Noble, Harold Joyce (1903-1953)". The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 031326788X.