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Fisk, Fidelia

missionary, author, was born May 1, 1816, in Shelburne, Mass.

In 1843 she went to Persia as a missionary among the Nestorians, where she labored fifteen years, much of the time as teacher in a female seminary. She was the first principal of the seminary at Oroomiah. She published Memorial of Mount Holyoke Seminary, and Woman and Her Savior in Persia, and at the time of her death was engaged in writing Recollections of Mary Lyon. She died Aug 9, 1864, in Shelburne, Mass.

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