The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-09-27
Vermont Women In
Mission Field
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Tracy of Pomfret who went with
her husband to Singapore, China
in 1886, or of Anna Hemenway
Caswell and Lucia Hunt Hemen-
way OF Shoreham who sailed for
Spain in 1899?
Another brave woman was
Lydia Bates CIRCUIT of Springfield
who sailed for the wilds of South
Africa in 1847.
Turkey seems to have claimed a
rr"1ber of missionaries during the
fifties: Mrs. Mary Anne Brack-
EFT Jewctt, st. Johnsbury North
church, served in that country
from 1853-62. Mrs. Alzina Church
i'll Knapp of Castleton from 1856
SO. Mrs. Janet James Winchester
OF Shoreham from 1857-67. In
1859 Mrs. Helen Richards Clark
! Of Norwich went to Hawaii and
remained there for 10 years.
| In the Encyclopedia of Missions
| find a record of Miss Mary Kid
der afterwards Mrs. +. K. Miller)
who went out under the American
Free Baptist Society to Yoko-
hama, Japan, and was the first un-
married lady missionary coming to
Japan direct from America. |
wonder if this is not the Miss H..
Anna Kidder of Peacham who is
reported as going out to Japan
from that place in the sixties?
From Castleton we learn that
Mrs. Mary Gilbert, wife of Rev
n. p. Gilbert, one of the oldest
Spanish speaking missionaries
was in Chile, South America from
1860-71. Randolph Center reports
Mrs. J. A. Bates of Ceylon who
was there from 18G0-G5.
1t is with especial tenderness
that we point to the star for our
beloved Mrs. Emily Reddington
NJ ontgcnely. Educated - Bur
lington, uniting with ner nome
in Morrisville where she was mar
ried she went to Turkey in 1868.
Later when her support was as
Sumed by the Vermont Branch her
wonderful letters and visits to the
I churches made an impression
never to be etfaced.
! MorIisvile claims two other
names for this decade, those of
Mrs. Cornela Bartlett of Turkey
1S67-92 and Mrs. Della Griswold
Dwight, also of Turkey 1869-84.
Miss Calista Downing of St.
Johnsbury North church sailed
Oct %, 1865 in a sailing vessel
and arrived in Chefoo, China, June
1866, { a seven months VOYAGE
She severed her connection with
the Presbyterian Board in 1880
on account of i'll health but stay
ed in China, teaching as much as
she was able until her death and
came home but once in all the Is
years she was there.
Micronesia claims one name,
that of Mrs. Louisa NJ. Whitney
of Royalton who was in the Mar
shall Islands from .1S71-18S1. Miss
Ellen Pierce of Barton was in Ami
tab, Turkey from 1875-19O4 and
Miss Laura Chamberlain of Peach
am went there in 1879. She is
now in Cambridge, Mass,
(Silyer starr. Other silver stars
represent, Miss Martha j. Bar
rows of Middlebury of Kobe, Jap
an; Miss Martha J. Gleason, Nc
lndoes Falls, who spent many use
full years in Constantinople and
Miss Sara f. Graves of Water
bury, who was in Bulgaria. Mrs.
Olive J. Emerson Morrow, whose
work in Burma under the Amcri-
can Baptist Missionary Union for
% years has aroused keen mis-
sionary interest in Rochester.
Another worker in Bulgaria was
Mrs. Luella Olds Kingsbury of
Norwich who was there from
1881-98 and is now living in Cali
fornia. Peacham sent out in 1887
Miss Martha j. Clark who after
her arrival in Japan became the
wife of Rev. Hilton Pcdley and
has had such an influence in Kyo-
to and the Japan Mission.
Miss Fannie +. BurraGc of
Pittsford was in Turkey from 1880
to 1917. North Craftsbury re-
ports Mrs. Arthur c. Cole who
was in Nellore, India for several
years under the Reformed Church
Board and is now in A. M. A.
work i'm Alabama. Ludlow and
North Bennington both claim Miss
Nellie NJ. Russell who went to
Picking, China, in 1890 and was
there until 1911 during the Boxer
rebellion. She is not now living.
(gold starr.
In 1891 Miss Abby Kent went TO
Kobe, Japan. Her father was pas
tor of the church at Enosburg.
Another minister's daughter,
Miss Alice II. Bushee may be
claimed by the Morrisville and the
Derby churches. She went to
Spain in 1892 to assist Mrs. Gu
lick in the girls school and was
supported by the Vermont
Branch. She is now professor of
Spanish at Wellesley college.
The horrors being pcrpetrated
in the Near East were brought
home to Vermont women by Miss
Alice NJ. Kyle Of Boston, the ed
itorial secretary of the Woman's
Board Of Missions. Miss Sarah
Smell, Ncrmonts heroic worker in