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Mary E. Brow ii, oldest daughter of John 

 P. Brown, died at Connersviile. Indiana, 

 July 1st, 1907. 



She was born at Ija Cygne, Kansas, Feli- 

 ruar}^ 20, 1871. After the destruftire vis- 

 itation of locusts or grasshoppers the fam- 

 ily was forced to leave Kansas in 1S7 5, 

 Jiaving lost all their property from this 

 cause, and removed to the father's former 

 liome, Rising Sun, Indiana. 



Miss Brown was educated in the Public 

 Schools and at Oxford College, Oxford, 

 Ohio. 



In 1904 she began work as nurse, taking 

 the course of training at the Cook County 

 Hospital, and after graduating was en- 

 gaged at nursing in several hospitals in 

 Evanston, Illinois. 



In 1903, being convinced that she had a 

 call to become a missionary, she entereo 

 the Moody Bsble Institute, Chicago, to 

 prepare herself for the Foreign Mission 

 field. She sailed from San Francisco. 

 August 8, 1903, arriving at Seoul, Korea. 

 Octol>er 14. After two and a half vears' 



service in Korea, traveling extensively, 

 nursing in the families of missionaries 

 who were ill, and teaching the Korean 

 women and children, who soon became 

 greatly attached to her, she was stricken 

 with fliat dread Oriental disease, sprue, 

 from which few Europeans or Americans 

 recover. 



She AvaiS directed by the Board of For- 

 eign Missions to return to America, in 

 liopes that a change of climate might be 

 beneficial. 



After two years' suffering she expired at 

 the home of her parents in Indiana. 



Euroi^ean and American physicians 

 liave very slight experience with this dis- 

 ease, and give little hope for patients after 

 the malady has become fixed. 



]\Iiss Brown was a frequent correspond- 

 ent of AfiBORicuLTUEE, and through her 

 effoi-ts many thousands of American forest 

 trees have been planted in the Hermit Na- 

 tion, and a very great interest has been 

 awakened in forest and shade tree plant- 

 ing in that country, whdch is so barren of 

 forests. 



