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American missionary to Greece From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sarah Emily York (1819 – 1851) was an American missionary to Greece.[1][2]
Sarah Emily York was born in 1819 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After completing her schooling at the female seminary in Charlestown, Massachusetts, she became a teacher in Boston.[3] She taught both in a private school and in a Baptist Sunday school.[4]
With the support of Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, she arrived to Greece as a missionary in 1844.[5]
She started the works at the missionary fields of the Greek islands of Corfu and Zakynthos as well as in the city of Piraeus.[1] She worked in a school at Corfu. In 1848, she married John York, a native of Corfu.
She died in Charlestown in 1851 following “fever”.[5]
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