Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Delaney, Emma B. |
Titles & honors |
-First African American female missionary sent to Africa -Emma Delaney Day is celevrated in Florida Baptist churches on the 3rd Sunday in May -Her Great Floridian plaque is in Fernandina, Fl |
Born |
Jan 18, 1871 |
Birthplace |
Fernandina, Florida |
Deceased |
Oct 7, 1922 |
Father |
Daniel Sharp Delaney |
Mother |
Anna M. Delaney |
School |
High school at Catholic Convent, Fernandina, Fl Spellman College (missionary and nursing training) |
Notes |
-Sailed to British Central Africa and helped establish the Providence Industrial Mission in Malawi in 1902 -Went to Liberia and founded the Suehn Industrial mission near Monrovia in 1912 -Died of Black Tropical Fever -Buried in Bosque Bello Cemetary |
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