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

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, the daughter of Gilbert Griswold Doane and Lucy Guilford Doane.

Career

Doane was commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1881, in Boston, to be Congregationalist teacher in Turkey. She remained there from 1881 to 1825, serving first in

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(Maraş), and later at a school in the Gedik Pasha (Gedikpaşa) quarter in

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. 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. Americanwomenmissionaries1911

Marden spoke about her work at a statewide women's mission gatherings in Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota in 1902 and 1903. In 1910 she sailed from Liverpool to Boston on the ''

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'', and in 1910 and 1911 Marden toured in the United States with other American missionary women, including Jennie V. Hughes,

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, and

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, to speak at jubilee celebrations in various cities. She left Constantinople to spend a health leave in Switzerland in the summer of 1917, and was giving lectures in the United States the following spring. 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. She wrote to the editors of the ''

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'' to protest unsubstantiated information they published about "Turkish harems". She donated an example of Turkish embroidery to the

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Personal life

Doane became the third wife of fellow missionary Rev. Henry Marden in 1882, in Marash. She was widowed when Henry died from

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in Athens in 1890. She died in 1946, aged 94 years, in

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marden, Etta Doane 1851 births 1946 deaths American Congregationalist missionaries Female Christian missionaries Congregationalist missionaries in the Ottoman Empire People from Owosso, Michigan