Corinna Shattuck (1848-1910)

"CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 23 -- An angry mob made an attack, Jan. 1, on the American mission at Oorfa, an out-station of Aintab. Death or a worse fate might have overtaken the missionary there, Miss Corinna Shattuck, had it not been for the heroism of six Turkish officials. These men faced the mob, declaring that they would defend the American woman with their lives."

Après l'assassinat de deux policiers à Urfa en août 1915, il y a eu un début d'émeute, mais les forces de l'ordre y ont rapidement mis fin. Le consul américain à Beyrouth, qui se trouvait à Urfa pour traiter je ne sais quelle affaire, a même félicité les autorités. Il a fallu la révolte de septembre-octobre pour qu'une mesure d'expulsion soit prise.

After the murder of two policemen in Urfa in August 1915, there was the beginning of a riot, but the security forces have quickly quelled it. The American consul in Beirut, who was in Urfa to make some sort of a  a deal, even commended the authorities. It took the revolt of September-October for a deportation order to be made.

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Miss Corinna Shattuck, head of the American mission in Urfa and Armenian local notables (Source: Ferdinand Brockes, Quer durch Klein-Asien, Gütersloh, 1900)

American Board Personnel Card and Photo Collection 

Title: Personnel records for Corinna
1848-1910 
Missions American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Aintab Ourfa Adana 

Description: Personnel card for Corinna Shattuck an employee of the American Board.
Documenting the content of the microfilm collection concerning the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions upon the Near East, 1817-1919

Correspondence
Earliest: Corinna Shattuck to Judson Smith, July 9, 1895, Urfa.
Latest: Corinna Shattuck to Judson Smith, November 14, 1899, Urfa.

Reports
Reference no. : BV2410.A4 1984 Reel 661

Report of various departments of Ourfa Work, 1900-1901, by Corinna Shattuck
Report of Work under Supervision of Resident Missionaries of Ourfa, June 1901-1902, by Corinna Shattuck,
Report of orphanage work and boys' industrial institute in connection with the American mission in Ourfa in Turkey, Dec 31, 1906, by Corinna Shattuck,
Report of the industrial institute in connection with the orphan work of American mission in Ourfa in Turkey, for the year 1907, by Corinna Shattuck,
Report of work in Ourfa and Garmooch, 1907-8, by Corinna Shattuck,
Report of the industrial institute in connection with the orphan work of the American mission in Ourfa, Turkey for the year 1908, by Corinna Shattuck,
Report of the school for the blind, in Ourfa, 1908-9, by Corinna Shattuck,
Report of the work under misionary supervision in Ourfa & Garmooch, 1908-9, by Corinna Shattuck,

Corinna Shattuck( April 21 1848 - May 22 1910)
Erected in loving memory by the Oorfa (Urfa)Armenians

Burial:
Newton Cemetery and Crematory, Newton
Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

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Finding Aid for the EDWARD MORRIS WISTAR PAPERS, 
1894-1914 Collection No. 1137 

Letters to E. Morris Wistar: Shattuck-Wood. 1 folder
Shattuck, Corinna. Shattuck, a missionary, writes concerning relief work and support of orphans. 

Edward Morris Wistar (1852-1941)
In 1896, E. Morris Wistar travelled to Asia Minor 
as a special field agent, under the auspices of the American Red Cross, to administer relief to Armenians in Anatolia.

Documenting his mission to administer relief to Armenians 
in Anatolia in 1896 is Wistar's correspondence with his wife, Margaret, Clara Barton, Asa Wing, J. Bevan Braithwaite, and letters from field workers such as C.F. Gates  and J.B. Hubbell and missionary Corinna Shattuck, as well as others. 
There are also his diary, report to the Red Cross, financial records and photographs.