Collins, Mary Clementine 1846-1920

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COLLINS, Mary Clementine 1846-1920

PERSONAL:

Born April 18, 1846, in Alton, IL; died May 25, 1920, in Alton, IL. Education: Attended public schools in Alton, IL.

CAREER:

Congregational Church, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, missionary among the Lakota Sioux Indians, beginning 1875, missionary and physician, 1884-1910. Ordained minister, 1899. Lecturer and advocate of Indian rights in East Coast cities.

WRITINGS:

Author of How I Became a Missionary, (New York, NY); and Winona: The Autobiography of Mary C. Collins, (New York, NY).

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Religious Leaders of America, 2nd edition, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1999.

PERIODICALS

North Dakota History, Volume 19, 1952, Louise P. Olson, "Mary Clementine Collins: Decotah Missionary," pp. 59-81.

South Dakota Historical Collections, Volume 41, 1982, L. Richmond, "Autobiography of Mary C. Collins, Missionary to the Western Sioux," pp. 1-66.*

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