Etta Doane Marden

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

Etta Doane Marden
Born
Etta Charlotte Doane

April 20, 1851
Owosso, Michigan
DiedMarch 23, 1946
Claremont, California
NationalityAmerican
OccupationChristian missionary in Turkey, 1881-1925

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]

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.
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