Etta Doane Marden

Etta Doane Marden
Born
Etta Charlotte Doane

April 20, 1851
Owosso, Michigan
DiedMarch 23, 1946
Claremont, California
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)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]

Seven white women (three seated, four standing) posed for a group photograph. They are all wearing long skirts and large hats. Several are wearing suit jackets.
American women missionaries speaking at jubilee celebrations in 1911. Front row: Florence Miller, Helen Barrett Montgomery, Jennie V. Hughes; Back row: Mary Riggs Noble, Etta Doane Marden, Mrs. W. T. Elmore, and Mary E. Carleton.

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.

References

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