Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913, p. 8-9

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Emily Clough Peabody, editor. Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine. Chicago, Illinois, USA: The Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street), 1913. In English. (30 pages). Pages 14-15 include information on Hovhannes Eskijian.

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Title Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913, p. 8-9

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Source 20230913-dadrian-eskijian (batch), Hovhannes Eskijian Archival Materials (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity), Vahakn Dadrian Papers (collection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections (digital); Ararat-Eskijian Museum (physical)

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

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Content rules, and made their prices so exorbitant as to be pro-
hibitory. While the gentlemen of the party were considering
what to do, Miss Shattuek, with characteristic wit and ener-
‘gy, found a way to the nearest city and from there sent back
a caravan to take the rest of the party home. She, herself,
did not return to Aintab for several months, but spent the
time in touring, and traveled nearly a thousand miles on
horseback. “But,” says she, “I feel amply repaid in the
knowledge I have obtained of the people and of the work in
our great Feld. T now plan to start for Oorfa, where I hope
to open a school for the more advanced girls. With the
exception of a native assistant, I must go alone, as none of my
associates can be spared just now.”

‘As a teacher in Aintab Seminary, Miss Shattuck might
have been content simply to teach her regular classes, work
among the women in the city as there was opportunity and
enjoy the comfortable home of the Mission Station. But she
could not forget those who were more needy, and finally left
‘Aintab, with an Armenian teacher, for a four months’ stay
in Oorfa. She writes from there a few weeks later, “Our
school numbers thirteen girls and five women. The women.
take only Bible lessons. ‘They are very regular in attendance
but Turkish is hard for them. No ‘four months’ ean decide
whether or not our work is successful. Two years is short
enough time to fully inaugurate a system of schools. This
week we begin to teach sewing. The girls are very anxi
for it and it will act asa bait and a diversion. We get new
pupils by visiting from house to house. Our girls come to
Sunday School and I have organized two classes for women
Pastor Abouhayat is giving interesting sermons on Sunday
afternoons. Such close attention by the people and such
splendid teaching exercises by a native, I have seldom, if ever,

8

‘Today there were no less than two hundred women
( kirls present and the men’s side of the church was over-
full,

“Yesterday the Pasha called and as he asked especially for
ime, T was sent for. He talked of my work here and ex-
pressed real interest, Indeed, he was very agreeable—but
how I did long for an American man. Sometimes itis hard
to feel myself so alone. T do not want to be bold and wn-
Iadylike, neither do T want to ignore my American cit
ship by putting myself on a level with natives in everything.

At the beginning of the next year (1878), Miss Shat-
k, taking with her a native teacher and a younger girl to
teach inthe primary school, went to Kessab for several
months, Here she was twice as far away from her Aintab
associates and thirty-sie miles from the nearest postofice
But at the Annual Meeting of Missionaries, three months
later, both she and Miss Proctor resigned their positions in t
Seminary, and asked the privilege of working in the out-
stations of Aintab. ‘They were assigned to Adana for the
school year, beginning in October.

“The day that the school opened, only one girl was pres
ent, but in the course of three months there were eighty
ils. Although all of these were girls from Adana homes

wy of them were as rude as mountain children.

All that winter Miss Shattuck had been in poor health
and as it was almost time for her first furlough she was ad~
vised to go to America for a year’s rest. Colorado sunshine
and invigorating air together with some library work at Col-
‘orado College brought increased health, and the encourage-
‘ment that she might sometime return to her work in Turkey.
Occasionally her letters revealed the restlessness she felt.
“How can 1," she writes, “spend my time in this College

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Inherited Values

Title Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913 [cover]

Alternative Title Hayasdani Gotchnag 1941 (supplied title)

Description Emily Clough Peabody, editor. Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine. Chicago, Illinois, USA: The Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street), 1913. In English. (30 pages). Pages 14-15 include information on Hovhannes Eskijian.

Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Shattuck, Corinna (personal name)

Coverage Spatial 19 South La Salle Street (roadways), Chicago (cities), Illinois (states), North America (continents), USA (countries)

Inherited Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Shattuck, Corinna (personal name)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections (digital); Ararat-Eskijian Museum (physical)

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

Rights Elmajian, E.E.; Peabody, Emily Clough; Shattuck, Corinna; The Gotchnag; Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior

Creator Elmajian, E.E. (writer), Peabody, Emily Clough (editor), Shattuck, Corinna (writer)

Contributor Ararat-Eskijian Museum (donor)

Publisher Hayaskani Gotchnag (original), The Gotchnag (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital), Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA) (original), Հայասդանի Գոթչնակ (original)

Date Issued 1913, 1941-05-03

Type texts