Charlotte E. and Mary A.C. Ely Papers 1861-1990 1861-1917

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College. In the 19th century it was the largest and most important of American missionary organizations and consisted of participants from Protestant Reformed traditions such as Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and German Reformed churches. Before 1870, the ABCFM consisted of Protestants of several denominati...

Uline, Mary D. (Mary Desiree), b. 1882

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Mount Holyoke College. - English Dept.

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Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, Bitlis.

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Ely, Charlotte E. (Charlotte Elizabeth), 1839-1915

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Charlotte Elizabeth Ely (1839-1915) and Mary Ann Caroline "Annie" Ely (1841-1913) were the daughters of Judah Ely and Caroline Coutier Ely. The sisters were educated at home and spent a year at Elmira College before entering Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. After graduating in 1861, the Elys spent two years teaching, then went on a tour of England and Europe in 1865-1866. The Rev. and Mrs. George C. Knapp, the first missionaries in Bitlis, Turkey, convinced the Elys to become missionaries in that ...

Knapp, George Perkins, 1863-1915

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Mount Holyoke College. - History Dept.

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Ely, Mary A. C. (Mary Ann Caroline), 1841-1913

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Knapp, Grace H.

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Grace Higley Knapp was born on November 21, 1870 in Bitlis, Turkey, to the Reverend George Cushing Knapp, a missionary, and Alzina Churchill Knapp, a schoolteacher. She left Turkey in April 1883 and attended schools in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Illinois. She entered Mount Holyoke Seminary and College in 1889. Graduating in 1893, she returned to Turkey to teach at Mount Holyoke Seminary of Kurdistan (also known as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, Bitlis), a girls' school founded in 1868 by Mount ...

Edwards, Anna C. (Anna Cheney), 1835-1930

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Professor, 1859-1892, and Associate Principal, 1872-1888, at Mount Holyoke College. From the description of Papers, 1859-1930. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 23087131 Anna Cheney Edwards was born on July 31, 1835, in Northampton, Massachusetts. She graduated from Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1859 and taught there until 1863. In 1863 she became principal of the Lake Erie Seminary in Plainsville, Ohio. She returned to Mount Holyoke in 1868 as a member of the fac...

Knapp, Anna Hunt, 1862-1954

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Ward, Edwin St. John, 1880-1951

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Edwin St. John Ward (1880-1951) graduated from Amherst College in 1900. He received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1904. From 1907 through 1911 he was a medical missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Turkey. He was a professor of surgery at the American University in Beirut from 1911-1931, where he served as the acting Dean of the Medical Department from 1920-1921 and as Dean of Medical Faculty from 1924-1931. Dr. Ward was also a m...