Mary Haskell

Mary Haskell, in a 1913 publication.

Mary Minerva Haskell (May 18, 1869 – December 6, 1953) was an American congregationalist missionary in Bulgaria.

Early life

Mary Minerva Haskell was born at Philippopolis (now Plovdiv) in 1869, to missionary parents Henry Charles Haskell (1835-1914) and Margaret Bell Haskell (1841-1924). She attended Oberlin College, graduating in the class of 1889.[1]

Career

Haskell moved back to Bulgaria as a teacher in 1890. In 1901 she worked with refugees from the Macedonian Revolution, and played a minor role in the Miss Stone Affair.[2] In 1908 she was assigned to the Monastir Orphanage at Samokov, under the auspices of the Women's Board of Missions of the Interior (WBMI).[3] She was arrested and imprisoned during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and received the Cross of Queen Eleonore for her service as a nurse.[4] She stayed in Bulgaria through World War II. Haskell left Sofia for the last time in 1950, forced to leave when the United States ended diplomatic relations with Bulgaria.[1]

During visits home to the United States, she attended conferences and gave lectures about Bulgaria.[5][6] In 1918 she published a pamphlet, "Glimpses of Bulgaria During the Present Crisis", to raise money for the orphanage she served.[7] Haskell spoke at the meeting of the Congregational Women's Missionary Society of Southern California, held in San Diego in 1932.[8]

Personal life

Mary Minerva Haskell died in 1953, aged 84 years, in California.[9] Her brother, Henry J. Haskell (1874-1952), was a newspaper editor in Kansas City, who married Katharine Wright, sister of the Wright Brothers, in 1926.[10][11]

Among her notable nephews were Edward Haskell, an independent researcher of "unified science", and Douglas Haskell, an architecture critic and magazine editor.

References

  1. 1 2 "After Lifetime of Welfare Work, Missionary Quits Bulgarians" Eugene Guard (March 1, 1950): 5. via Newspapers.com
  2. ↑ Teresa Carpenter, The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis (Simon and Schuster 2004): 25-26, 50. ISBN 9780743258050
  3. ↑ Noriko Kawamura Ishii, ''American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909 (Routledge 2004): 69-70. ISBN
  4. ↑ "Fail to Shatter Faith" Kansas City Times (September 9, 1950): 7. via Newspapers.com
  5. ↑ "A Lecture" Lawrence Daily Journal (March 6, 1899): 4. via Newspapers.com
  6. ↑ "Meeting of Woman's Board of Missions" Inter Ocean (October 24, 1899): 4. via Newspapers.com
  7. ↑ Mary M. Haskell, "Glimpses of Bulgaria During the Present Crisis" (1918).
  8. ↑ "Church Group Officers for Year Elected" San Bernardino County Sun (April 21, 1932): 13. via Newspapers.com
  9. ↑ "Miss Mary Haskell, 84; Sister of the Late Henry J. Haskell Dies Unexpectedly" Kansas City Times (December 10, 1953): 3.
  10. ↑ "Katharine Wright Wed To H.J. Haskell, Editor. Sister of Airplane Inventors Bride of Executive of The Kansas City Star". New York Times. November 21, 1926. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
  11. ↑ "K. C. Star Editor Dead at 78" Salinas Journal (August 20, 1952): 1. via Newspapers.com

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