American Heroes on Mission Fields: Clara Gray Schauffler c 1890 missionary biography Constantinople Prague Cleveland Henry Albert Schauffler

Title: American Heroes on Mission Fields. Brief Missionary Biographies. No. 1. Clara Gray Schauffler

Author: Mrs. Douglas Putnam

Description: Saddle-stitched in thin card wrapper. Light toning to covers. Interior is clean and unmarked. No statement of date, circa 1890. 24 pages. Laid-in is an original newspaper obituary for Mrs. Schauffler from 1883.

A biography of the American missionary Clara Eastham (Gray) Schauffler (1842-1883), who served with her husband Rev. Henry Albert Schauffler in the missionary field in Turkey, where he taught at Robert College in Constantinople (1862-1872), and then in Prague and Bohemian Austria (1872-1881). They returned to the United States in 1882 and settled in Cleveland where he was a missionary to the Czech population. Mrs. Schauffler was the daughter of James Harrison Gray, a leading physician and surgeon of Enflield and Springfield, Massachusetts.

Binding: soft cover/wraps
Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: American Tract Society
Place: New York
Year: 1890

Keywords: Robert College, Constantinople, Cleveland, missionaries, Bohemians, Czech, James Harrison Gray, genealogy,