Mary Briscoe Baldwin

American missionary educator

Mary Briscoe Baldwin

Summary

Mary Briscoe Baldwin was a 19th-century American missionary educator to Greece and Joppa. She was the "first unmarried woman sent out by the Foreign Committee of the Protestant Episcopal church's Mission Board". During the Crimean War, Baldwin assisted Florence Nightingale in hospitals, and they became friends.

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5/20/2026, 12:47:09 AM

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