Mary L. Matthews
American missionary
Why Is Mary L. Matthews Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary Louisa Matthews was an American educator and missionary. She taught and was in charge of a Protestant girls school in Monastir , a city in the Macedonian region of Ottoman Turkey, from 1888 to 1920. She was there through the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the Young Turk Revolution, Balkan Wars I and II and World War I. She left detailed records of her observations of the turbulent affairs of the region during the thirty-two years she spent there. In 1937, her bravery during World War I was recognized when she was among the first group of women to receive the Alumnae Medal of Honor from Mount Holyoke College. She also received a commendation from the State Department for exceptional service to United States interests during World War I.
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