Guide to the Marjorie Faught Papers
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Marjorie Faught was born in Philadelphia on July 8, 1907. She attended the Lankenau Hospital Training School for Nurses, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology and graduating in 1928 with her RN degree. In 1931 she earned a certificate in missions at Biblical Seminary in New York City. In 1932 she applied to the Women's General Missionary Society (UPCNA) for a missionary nursing post on the foreign field. The WGMS assigned her to the Ethiopia Mission and she sailed in 1933.
Faught joined the staff of the George Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa. In 1941, due to war conditions in Ethiopia, she was transferred to the Sialkot Mission, where she spent five years working in the Sialkot and Taxila Hospitals. In 1947 she returned to Ethiopia, this time to the Orr Memorial Hospital in Sayo, where she started a baby clinic in 1948. In 1957 Faught moved to Maji Station. She continued serving in the Ethiopia Mission until her retirement in 1972.
Faught thoroughly documented her service in Ethiopia and India in eight photograph albums and two scrapbooks. Most of the photos are captioned and dated. The collection also includes a selection of home letters.
SERIES 1: PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, 1925-1952
SERIES 2: SCRAPBOOKS, 1933-1946
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Related collections include RG 306, Nichol Family Papers. Ruth Nichol was a fellow missionary in Ethiopia and India; her papers, which consist largely of correspondence, are a good companion to this collection, which is largely visual.
Record Group 209 includes official records of the UPCNA Board of Foreign Missions.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: October 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | Alternative Formats |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 318 | |
| 1 | 2 | Home Letters, 1941-88 (several years missing) | Digital |
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence (incoming), 1952 | |
| 1 | 4 | Photographs, 1948-50 | |
| 1 | 5 | List of Photographs in India album (volume 6 below) | |
| 1 | 6 | Loose Items from Scrapbooks, 1936, 1942-49 | |
| SERIES 1: PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, 1925-1952 | |||
| Vol. | |||
| 1 | 1 | 1925-34--Lankenau Hospital, Biblical Seminary, Ethiopia | |
| 1 | 2 | 1933-36--Ethiopia | |
| 1 | 3 | 1933-37--Ethiopia | |
| 1 | 4 | 1935-38--Ethiopia | Digital |
| 1 | 5 | 1938 --Egypt | |
| 1 | 6 | 1941-46--India | |
| 1 | 7 | 1941-52--India, Ethiopia | |
| SERIES 2: SCRAPBOOKS, 1933-1946 | |||
| 2 | 1933-39--Ethiopia | Digital | |
| 2 | 1941-46--India |