Papers, 1880-1962.

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Papers, 1880-1962.

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Papers represent the extended Pearce/Brown family involved in education in under served areas in the rural United States and missionary and education work in the Middle East, circa 1880s-1930s. Also represented are Eleanor I. Burns, founder of the American College for Girls in Istanbul; Mary Mills Patrick, founder of Constantinople Women's College; and Alice Lloyd, founder of Caney Junior College in Kentucky. The collection includes biographical and genealogical information; correspondence (1892-1962); photographs; scrapbook; travel diary from European trip (1953); and writings (1911-53). Pamphlets and reports relating to the Sidon Female Seminary are of particular interest.

1 linear ft. (3 boxes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7608961

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Pearce, Rebecca McClure Brown, 1860-1911

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American College for Girls (Istanbul, Turkey)

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The American College for Girls was an outgrowth of an educational experiment called The Home School founded in 1871 in Istanbul by the Woman's Board of Missions and a group of women educators from Boston. Under the leadership of May Mills Patrick, and with the support of Sarah L. Bowker, Caroline Borden and other Boston women, the school was granted an act of incorporation as an educational institution in 1890 by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Home School had been gradually ...

Patrick, Mary Mills, 1850-1940

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President, Constantinople Woman's College, 1890-1924. From the description of Mary Mills Patrick papers, 1875-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867193 Biographical/Historical Note President, Constantinople Woman's College, 1890-1924. From the guide to the Mary Mills Patrick papers, 1875-1924, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Pearce, Katherine Standish, 1895-1990

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Pearce family.

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Missionary; Teacher; Librarian. Primary family members represented in papers include Charlotte Hays Brown (1862-1951), who served in Syria under the auspices of the Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church from 1885-1931. For much of that time she was principal of the Sidon Female Seminary. She later lived in Lebanon. Her sister, Rebecca McClure (Brown) Pearce (1860-1911) was also a missionary in Syria from 1885-92. Rebecca's daughter, Katherine Standish Pearce (1895-...

Brown, Charlotte Hays, 1862-1951

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Brown family.

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Sidon Female Seminary

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Pearce, Charlotte Crosby, 1894-1919

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