Lydia Mary Fay
Lydia Mary Fay was an American educator who supervised an Episcopal mission school in Shanghai almost continuously from 1851 until her death in 1878.
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Martha Whiting
Boston’s Charlestown Female Seminary, established in 1831, educated notable women. Martha Whiting (1795-1853), it’s first headmistress, was a pioneer in female education and missionary work.
Gandeacteua
Erie woman responsible for the founding of the Saint-François-Xavier mission at Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine in 1600s Canada
Lily Dougall
1800s and 1900s Canadian writer
Dr Barbara Thiering
Australian theologian
Irene Hickox Scranton
1800s American educator, churchwoman, and benefactor
Isa-Beall Williams Neel
President of the Georgia (U.S.) Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union from 1911 to 1932 and then taught language at Bessie Tift College in Forsyth from 1932 to 1941. She was the first woman to receive the honorary LL.D. degree from Mercer University in Macon (1931) and the first woman to be elected vice president of the Georgia Baptist Convention (1931).
Ruth Berry McKinney
20th century religious and civic leader in Cleveland, Ohio
Elise Sandes
Founder of Sandes Soldiers’ Homes in Ireland, India, and Great Britain
Dr Jill Tabart
In 1991, Jill Tabart made history as the first woman to be elected President of the Uniting Church in Australia