biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1816–64)
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| biography:
| Protestant missionary, born in Shelburne, Massachusetts, USA. The daughter of a farmer, she developed religious interests as a child and volunteered for mission service after graduating from Mount Holyoke Seminary (1842). Sent to Persia, she founded a girls school and ministered among women and children. Ill health forced her to return to the USA (1858), and she did not recover sufficiently to return to the field. Her book about the founder of Mount Holyoke, Recollections of Mary Lyon, was published posthumously in 1866. |
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