Harriet Winslow
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Harriet Winslow | |
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Born | 1796 |
Died | 1833 (aged 36–37) |
Harriet Wadsworth Winslow (née Lathrop; 1796–1833) born in Norwich, Connecticut, was a prominent missionary attached to American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. She was married at the age of twenty three to fellow missionary Rev. Miron Winslow. They were both deputed to Ceylon now Sri Lanka as part of the American Ceylon Mission. She founded Asia’s first all-girls boarding school in Uduvil, Jaffna called Uduvil Girls' College. It was called Missionary Seminary and Female Central School.[1]
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- People from Norwich, Connecticut
- 1796 births
- 1833 deaths
- American Congregationalist missionaries
- American Ceylon Mission
- Female Christian missionaries
- American expatriates in Sri Lanka
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