Mary G. Burdette

Mary G. Burdette (1842 - 1907) was an American Baptist teacher, preceptor, writer and missionary leader.[1]

Mary G. Burdette Memorial Home, the National Training School for Women and Girls, glass negative

Biography

Burdette was born in Greensboro, Pennsylvania and grew up in Peoria, Illinois.[1] Robert J. Burdette was her brother.

She was the secretary for the Women's American Baptist Home Missionary Society.[2] In 1881, the society established the Baptist Missionary Training School and appointed Burdette its leader for the first six years.[3] She then became one of three women who administered the school.[3]

She also edited the society's publication Tidings and traveled extensively in the U.S. for her work. She wrote and edited several articles[4] including A Trip Through Indian Country (1863),[5] Home Mission Lessons, "Sunlight Mission : sought, sound, opened", "Cuba : discovered, degraded, delivered (1911), "Twenty-two years' work among Mormons", "Work in Mexico : 1885-1905", and Young women among blanket Indians (1895). [6]

The Mary G. Burdette Memorial Home, a gift of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society, was used as the National Training School for Girls in Washington.[7]

See also

References
  1. "The Baptist Home Mission Monthly". American Baptist Home Mission Society. January 6, 1907 – via Google Books.
  2. "The Baptist Home Mission Monthly". American Baptist Home Mission Society. January 6, 1907 – via Google Books.
  3. Brackney, William H. (2008). Congregation and Campus: Baptists in Higher Education. Mercer University Press. p. 162.
  4. "Burdette, Mary G. [WorldCat Identities]".
  5. Graber, Jennifer (March 15, 2018). The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American West. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190279639 – via Google Books.
  6. "Burdette, Mary G. | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  7. Grose, Howard Benjamin (January 6, 1914). "Missions: A Baptist Monthly Magazine ..." American Baptist Convention – via Google Books.
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