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About Elizabeth Russell
Elizabeth Russell was an American missionary and educator. She founded Kwassui Gakuin, a school for girls and women in Nagasaki. She was sent by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Japan in 1879 at the age of forty-three. She contributed to the women's education, social welfare and missionary during her forty years in Japan, and was decorated by the Emperor of Japan in 1919.
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- missionary
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 9, 1836
- Died
- September 6, 1928