WEST, Maria Abigail

[s. 799] : Mi West was born in New York, March 27, 1827. She embarked from Boston under the ABCFM for Turkey December 22, 1852, being appointed to Constantinople. She had charge of the female boarding school at Ha keuy in that city for about ten years. After a visit to America she was stationed at Constantinople, at Marsovan, and at Harpoot, engaged in all of these places in work for women and girls, and for a time was in She charge of a female seminary at Harpoot. was a woman of great energy and rare ability. Her book on the Romance of Mi ions; or, Life and Labor in the Land of Ararat, is based upon her experiences in various parts of Turkey, and has had great influence in developing mi ionary The first zeal on both sides of the Atlantic. primer in the Armenian language for children in the mi ion schools was written by Mi West, and has been widely used for more than a generation in many of the schools using Armenian in Palmyra, After leaving the different parts of Turkey. service of the she organized coffee-houses in Smyrna and Constantinople for sailors and others. She was preeminently a pioneer, with great power of initiative in all of her mi ionary life. Mi West died in London June 28, 1894. ch152.xhtml a 799