Etta Doane Marden Explained

Etta Doane Marden
Birth Name:Etta Charlotte Doane
Birth Date:April 20, 1851
Birth Place:Owosso, Michigan
Death Date:March 23, 1946
Death Place:Claremont, California
Nationality:American
Occupation:Christian missionary in Turkey, 1881-1925

Etta Doane Marden (April 20, 1851 – March 23, 1946) was an American Christian missionary in Turkey from 1881 to 1925.

Early life

Etta Charlotte Doane was born in Owosso, Michigan,[1] the daughter of Gilbert Griswold Doane and Lucy Guilford Doane.[2] [3]

Career

Doane was commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1881, in Boston, to be Congregationalist teacher in Turkey.[4] [5] She remained there from 1881 to 1825, serving first in Marash (Maraş), and later at a school in the Gedik Pasha (Gedikpaşa) quarter in Constantinople.[6] [7] [8] The Gedik Pasha station offered meetings and vocational training for women, in addition to Bible lessons for men and women, a coffeehouse, public lectures, and a school for children and youths.[9] [10] [11] Marden spoke about her work at a statewide women's mission gatherings in Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota in 1902 and 1903.[12] [13] [14] In 1910 she sailed from Liverpool to Boston on the Lusitania,[15] and in 1910 and 1911 Marden toured in the United States with other American missionary women,[16] including Jennie V. Hughes, Helen Barrett Montgomery, and Mary Riggs Noble, to speak at jubilee celebrations in various cities.[17] [18] She left Constantinople to spend a health leave in Switzerland in the summer of 1917,[19] and was giving lectures in the United States the following spring.[20]

Marden moved to southern California when she retired from Turkey in 1925. She spoke on her experiences at church events in California during her retirement.[21] She wrote to the editors of the Los Angeles Times to protest unsubstantiated information they published about "Turkish harems".[22] She donated an example of Turkish embroidery to the Art Institute of Chicago.[23]

Personal life

Doane became the third wife of fellow missionary Rev. Henry Marden in 1882, in Marash.[24] She was widowed when Henry died from typhus in Athens in 1890.[25] [26] She died in 1946, aged 94 years, in Claremont, California.

Notes and References

  1. News: Anxiety is Felt for Owosso Woman. November 13, 1912. Lansing State Journal. November 19, 2019. 2. Newspapers.com.
  2. News: Entered Into Rest. February 3, 1899. Owosso Times. November 19, 2019. 8. Newspapers.com.
  3. Book: Portrait biographical album of Clinton and Shiawasse Counties. Mich.. 1891. 932–933.
  4. October 30, 1920. Mrs. W. W. Peet. Near East Relief. 11. 1.
  5. News: Another Missionary Appointed from Owosso. July 15, 1881. Owosso Times. November 19, 2019. 2. Chronicling America (Library of Congress).
  6. Marden. Etta Doane. November 1910. The Effect of the Constitution on Education in Turkey. Life and Light for Women. 40. 485–489. Internet Archive.
  7. News: Untitled news item. March 4, 1911. Hartford Courant. November 19, 2019. 6. Newspapers.com.
  8. Book: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The American board missions in the Near East. 1922. [Boston : A.B.C.F.M.]. Columbia University Libraries. 3.
  9. Book: Interior, Woman's Board of Missions of the. https://books.google.com/books?id=yZTZXF8lalIC&q=Etta+Doane+Marden&pg=PA14. Annual Report of the Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior. 1908. The Board.. 14–15. Western Turkey Mission.
  10. Marden. Etta Doane. November 1910. Modern Movements in Turkey. Life and Light for Women. 40. 523–524. Internet Archive.
  11. Book: Marden, Etta D.. Life and light for women. 1902. [Boston : Woman's Board of Missions]. Princeton Theological Seminary Library. 16-17. The Year in Gedik Pasha, Constantinople.
  12. News: Board of Missions. October 11, 1902. The Daily Times. November 19, 2019. 10. Newspapers.com.
  13. News: Talk of Children. April 2, 1903. The Daily Times. November 19, 2019. 3. Newspapers.com.
  14. News: Reports of Mission Work. April 23, 1903. Star Tribune. November 19, 2019. 8. Newspapers.com.
  15. News: Untitled news item. August 12, 1910. Owosso Times. November 19, 2019. 1. Newspapers.com.
  16. News: Arrangements for Jubilee Completed. January 28, 1911. Evening Star. November 19, 2019. 20. Newspapers.com.
  17. News: Women Open Golden Missionary Jubilee. November 10, 1910. Chicago Examiner. November 19, 2019. 6. Chicago Public Library Digital Collections.
  18. News: Untitled News Item. December 30, 1910. Owosso Times. November 19, 2019. 5. Newspapers.com.
  19. 1917. Mrs. Marden. Annual Report of the Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior. 36.
  20. News: Veteran Missionary Speaks. April 22, 1918. Chicago Tribune. November 19, 2019. 5. Newspapers.com.
  21. News: First Congregational. November 28, 1926. The San Bernardino Sun. November 19, 2019. 36. Newspapers.com.
  22. News: Turkish Harems. Marden. Etta Doane. May 21, 1926. The Los Angeles Times. November 19, 2019. 22. Newspapers.com.
  23. Web site: Towel. The Art Institute of Chicago. en. 2019-11-19.
  24. April 1883. News for the Month. The Missionary Herald at Home and Abroad. 79. 157.
  25. Andover Theological Seminary. 1890. Marden, Henry. Necrology.
  26. Book: Clark, Frank Gray. Memorial of Rev. Henry Marden: Given at the Reunion of the McCollom Institute, Mont Vernon, N.H., Aug. 21, 1890. 1891. Republican Press Association. en.

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