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[[File:MarthaSheldon1913.jpg|thumb|Martha Sheldon, from a 1913 publication.]]
'''Martha A. Sheldon''' (May 22, 1860 — October 10, 1912) was an American medical missionary in India, Nepal, and Tibet.
==Early life==
Martha Alma Sheldon was born in [[Excelsior, Minnesota]], the daughter of Charles B. Sheldon and Mary Keziah Prentice Sheldon. Her father was a Congregational minister. She graduated first in her class from the [[University of Minnesota]] in 1883, where she was also active in skating, rowing, and swimming. She earned a medical degree in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].<ref name="Gracey">Lilly Ryder Gracey, [https://ift.tt/2AAh6wH "Missionary Life in the Himalayas"] ''The Missionary Review of the World'' (April 1913): 273-277.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2TTZZPv "Miss Martha A. Sheldon"] ''Twenty-first Annual Report of the North-west India Conference of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society'' (1913): xxxix.</ref>
==Career==
Sheldon became a "missionary-deaconess" of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]]<ref>Dana Lee Robert, [https://ift.tt/2AAh7AL ''American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice''] (Mercer University Press 1996): 158. </ref> in 1889, to serve in [[Darjeeling]]. After six years, she and Annie Budden moved to a mission post in the [[Pithoragarh district]], near the India-Nepal border (in present-day Nepal). There she served from 1895 to 1912, most of those years with Eva C. M. Browne.<ref name="Pamphlet">Frances J. Baker, [https://ift.tt/2TXz70M ''Dr. Martha Sheldon and her siege of Tibet''] (Boston: Methodist Episcopal Church, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, und.).</ref> The couple ran a small farm with vegetables, fruits, and cows. She learned the spoken [[Bhotiya]] language, devised a written version to record it, and composed translations of Christian texts for local use. She and Browne began a kindergarten, organized schools for girls and women, opened a clinic, built a church, and hosted visiting missionaries.<ref>S. Knowles, [https://ift.tt/2AxfJ1J "Kumaon District"] ''Annual Report'' (1898): 180-181.</ref>
Sheldon and Browne traveled to Tibet in 1900-1902. In Tibet they offered medical care, helped start a Christian church, learned [[Tibetan]] and translated some texts into that language too. "Again medical work opened the way for me to spend two weeks in Tibet. I was called to [[Lake Manasarowar]] to operate for [[cataract]] upon women living near the monastery," she wrote in a published letter. "It was a great joy to be in golden Tibet again."<ref name="Gracey" /> In one incident, the women disguised themselves as Bhotiya women to visit [[Taklakot]], and held religious meetings, before officials asked them to leave.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2TYvpEq "In the Face of Danger"] ''Detroit Free Press'' (May 22, 1904): 37. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
[[File:MarthaSheldonEvaBrowne.jpg|thumb|Martha Sheldon and Eva Browne, from a missionary pamphlet about Sheldon's work.]]
On furlough in the United States in 1905, Sheldon addressed the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meetings, from [[Redlands, California]] to [[Marlboro, Massachusetts]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Az15ai "Missionary Society Meets at Redlands"] ''Los Angeles Herald'' (May 11, 1905): 4. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2TVSMhH "Address by Boston Woman"] ''Boston Globe'' (October 20, 1905): 8. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
==Personal life==
Sheldon died at [[Darchula]] in 1912, aged 72 years. Her partner Eva C. M. Browne wrote a biography of Sheldon.<ref>Eva C. M. Browne, [https://ift.tt/2AAhaMX ''Life of Dr. Martha A. Sheldon: Missionary to Bhot, India''] (und.).</ref> A biographical pamphlet was published by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.<ref name="Pamphlet" />
==References==
[[Category:1860 births]]
[[Category:1912 deaths]]
[[Category:American Methodist missionaries]]
[[Category:American physicians]]
[[Category:University of Minnesota alumni]]
[[Category:People from Excelsior, Minnesota]]
'''Martha A. Sheldon''' (May 22, 1860 — October 10, 1912) was an American medical missionary in India, Nepal, and Tibet.
==Early life==
Martha Alma Sheldon was born in [[Excelsior, Minnesota]], the daughter of Charles B. Sheldon and Mary Keziah Prentice Sheldon. Her father was a Congregational minister. She graduated first in her class from the [[University of Minnesota]] in 1883, where she was also active in skating, rowing, and swimming. She earned a medical degree in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].<ref name="Gracey">Lilly Ryder Gracey, [https://ift.tt/2AAh6wH "Missionary Life in the Himalayas"] ''The Missionary Review of the World'' (April 1913): 273-277.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2TTZZPv "Miss Martha A. Sheldon"] ''Twenty-first Annual Report of the North-west India Conference of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society'' (1913): xxxix.</ref>
==Career==
Sheldon became a "missionary-deaconess" of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]]<ref>Dana Lee Robert, [https://ift.tt/2AAh7AL ''American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practice''] (Mercer University Press 1996): 158. </ref> in 1889, to serve in [[Darjeeling]]. After six years, she and Annie Budden moved to a mission post in the [[Pithoragarh district]], near the India-Nepal border (in present-day Nepal). There she served from 1895 to 1912, most of those years with Eva C. M. Browne.<ref name="Pamphlet">Frances J. Baker, [https://ift.tt/2TXz70M ''Dr. Martha Sheldon and her siege of Tibet''] (Boston: Methodist Episcopal Church, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, und.).</ref> The couple ran a small farm with vegetables, fruits, and cows. She learned the spoken [[Bhotiya]] language, devised a written version to record it, and composed translations of Christian texts for local use. She and Browne began a kindergarten, organized schools for girls and women, opened a clinic, built a church, and hosted visiting missionaries.<ref>S. Knowles, [https://ift.tt/2AxfJ1J "Kumaon District"] ''Annual Report'' (1898): 180-181.</ref>
Sheldon and Browne traveled to Tibet in 1900-1902. In Tibet they offered medical care, helped start a Christian church, learned [[Tibetan]] and translated some texts into that language too. "Again medical work opened the way for me to spend two weeks in Tibet. I was called to [[Lake Manasarowar]] to operate for [[cataract]] upon women living near the monastery," she wrote in a published letter. "It was a great joy to be in golden Tibet again."<ref name="Gracey" /> In one incident, the women disguised themselves as Bhotiya women to visit [[Taklakot]], and held religious meetings, before officials asked them to leave.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2TYvpEq "In the Face of Danger"] ''Detroit Free Press'' (May 22, 1904): 37. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
[[File:MarthaSheldonEvaBrowne.jpg|thumb|Martha Sheldon and Eva Browne, from a missionary pamphlet about Sheldon's work.]]
On furlough in the United States in 1905, Sheldon addressed the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meetings, from [[Redlands, California]] to [[Marlboro, Massachusetts]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Az15ai "Missionary Society Meets at Redlands"] ''Los Angeles Herald'' (May 11, 1905): 4. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2TVSMhH "Address by Boston Woman"] ''Boston Globe'' (October 20, 1905): 8. via [[Newspapers.com]]</ref>
==Personal life==
Sheldon died at [[Darchula]] in 1912, aged 72 years. Her partner Eva C. M. Browne wrote a biography of Sheldon.<ref>Eva C. M. Browne, [https://ift.tt/2AAhaMX ''Life of Dr. Martha A. Sheldon: Missionary to Bhot, India''] (und.).</ref> A biographical pamphlet was published by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.<ref name="Pamphlet" />
==References==
[[Category:1860 births]]
[[Category:1912 deaths]]
[[Category:American Methodist missionaries]]
[[Category:American physicians]]
[[Category:University of Minnesota alumni]]
[[Category:People from Excelsior, Minnesota]]
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