Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913, p. 16-17

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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. 16-17

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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 and children in different forms of industrial work reveals
her tireless energy, and her ability as a business woman.
‘One of Miss Shattuck’s associates thus wrote of her: “Miss
Shattuck was a born leader and organizer, and could endure
we than any one I ever saw
Under a somewhat cold exterior was a warm and sympathetic
heart; but she wasted no time in useless pity. She worked
better alone, but at the same time was a true friend who was
riot ashamed to tell one of her shortcomings. With her,
thing was either right or wrong, and she was often so stern
with wrongdoers it would seem that she almost hated the
sinner along with the sin, But not s0; no one forgave more
fully than she, yet it was only after fruit was brought forth
meet for repentance. She wanted nothing halfway. Hers
was a lonely, hard life, but she did her work and a grand
‘one it was. As an example of unselfish devotion and unti
energy she has no one who excels her.’
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more for a woman of her ph

Work with the girls naturally began with washing,
cvoking and sewing, while the boys learned to bake bread for
the three Homes, make shoes and work in the vineyards.

Like all mothers, Miss Shattuck had not only to provide
work for the big boys but recreation forthe little folks, who
are quite as wiggly in Turkey as Ameriea, also Sunday had
to be made a pleasant and helpful day for a family of more
than a hundred children. ‘That she was a wise as well as
‘kind mother is revealed in letter which she wrote several
months Tater in regard to one of her boys who had made
considerable trouble. “The solid satisfaction we take in that
fellow now so contrasts with the extreme trouble he formerly
caused us, we praise God and hope for the most hopeless of
the rest of the set.”

Many difficulties had to be met before the industrial
work was established. In this devastated region. business
twas stagnant, and a market was necessary for their goods.
"There was no money to supply even the mater

IL needed t0
keep two thousand people at work, or provide competent
teachers. For the widows it was necessary that they should
the taught to earn their living at once, while the boys needed
more to learn a good trade for future use.

Even in America the organizer of industry is one of the
greatest benefactors in any community. Often the pros-
perity of hundreds of homes is dependent upon his genius.
How much more must this have been true in that desolated
region where the organizing genius was a frail woman with-
out capital or competent assistants, and a market three thou-
sand miles aw

Oriental silk embroidery was revived and this together
with delicate work on handkerchiefs and collars, gave regular
employment to the women. There was very little demand

”

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