Smith, Edith H. (Edith Huntington), 1878-1924

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Missionary and teacher. b. Edith Huntington Reed.

From the description of Correspondence, 1914-1919. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 22633572

Edith Huntington Reed was born on May 21, 1878 in Westfield, Massachusetts. Her sister Susan Reed Stifler graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1907. Edith graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1901, and in 1902 became the Principal's Assistant at Glenbrook School in Connecticut. In 1905 she moved to New Jersey and taught at the Central Grammar School. In July of 1910, she married Justin Burritt Smith, a graduate of Amherst College. He died in 1912. She taught at a variety of schools, and in 1915 became a missionary in India where she worked until her death in 1924.

From the guide to the Smith papers MS 0587., 1904-1924., (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)

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referencedIn Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection
creatorOf Smith, Edith H. (Edith Huntington), 1878-1924. Correspondence, 1914-1919. Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library
creatorOf Smith papers MS 0587., 1904-1924. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections
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associatedWith American Mission Girls School (Ahmadnagar, India) corporateBody
associatedWith Reed family. family
associatedWith Stifler, Susan Reed, 1884-1987 person
associatedWith Walser, Richard Gaither, 1908- person
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Germany
Ahmadnagar (India)
India - Social conditions.
India - Description and travel.
India
Ahmadnagar (India) - Description and travel.
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Teachers
Teachers
Disease
Missionaries
Missionaries
Prisoners of war
Prisoners of war
Prisoners of war
World War, 1914-1918
Women missionaries
Women missionaries
Women teachers
Women teachers
World War, 1914-1918 - India
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Birth 1878

Death 1924

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