Mrs. JAMES F. GARVIN. 
 
 Emma Francis Garvin is one of our very 
 busy mother missionaries in Santiago, 
 Chili, having fonr fine boys and two lit¬ 
 tle girls. Three of the sons are at school 
 here in the States. 
 
 Mrs. Garvin was born in Marasli. Tur¬ 
 key, January 13th, 1861. Her father was a 
 Medical Missionary of the American 
 Board for Foreign Missions. On account 
 of her mother’s health they returned to 
 the United States when Mrs. Garvin was 
 between four and five years of age. Her 
 father then left the practice of medicine 
 for the ministry in the Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 Mrs. Garvin’s girlhood was passed in the 
 middle west and one year was spent at 
 Lenox Collegiate Institute, Hopkinton, 
 Iowa. From there she was sent to Bock- 
 ford Seminary, Illinois, where she grad¬ 
 uated in 1880. After this she taught three 
 years in Iowa. 
 
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While at Hopkinton she met James F. 
 Garvin to whom she was married on June 
 20. 1884, at Trenton, Missouri. On August 
 2nd of the §ame year they sailed for 
 Chili, via England, reaching Concepcion, 
 their destination, on October 5th. 
 
 It had always been the earnest wish of 
 Mrs. Garvin’s parents that she should be¬ 
 come a missionary. When she was about 
 twelve 3 r ears old a farewell meeting for a 
 Miss Jewett, a missionary to Persia, sent 
 out from her father’s church, made a deep 
 impression upon her. About this time she 
 united with the church, and when later 
 she became engag’ed to one who was to 
 enter the foreign field it seemed to be in 
 the natural order of things. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Garvin are very happy that 
 two of their boys now in the States have 
 joined the Student Volunteer Band. 
 
 Mrs. Garvin has been under the Board 
 of the Southwest ever since she went to 
 the Foreign Field, and no missionary that 
 we have, has done a more abiding work. 
 Her cheerful confronting of difficulties, her 
 tact in dealing with the members of the 
 Spanish-American church to which her 
 husband ministers, and her wise interest 
 in and love of the young people by whom 
 she is surrounded, have made her a power 
 indeed. Each field has its own difficulties 
 
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and problems, requiring- a different person¬ 
 ality in the missionary who has to meet 
 them, and we feel that in Mrs. Garvin the 
 church has the right woman in the right 
 place. 
 
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Published by the 
 
 WOMAN’S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOREIGN 
 MISSIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST, 
 
 708 Odd Fellows’ Building, 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
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 Series of fourteen Sketches.