Loretta C. Van Hook | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | Loretta C. Turner July 4, 1852 |
| Died | October 12, 1935 (aged 83) |
| Resting place | Rose Hill Cemetery, Newburgh, Indiana |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Spouse |
James Perry Van Hook
(m. 1870; died 1871) |
| Children | 1 |
| Denomination | Presbyterian |
| Alma mater | Rockford College |
| Profession | foreign missionary and educator |
| Senior posting | |
| Profession | foreign missionary and educator |
| Post | Tabriz, Persia |
Loretta C. Van Hook (July 4, 1852 – October 12, 1935) was an American missionary and educator in Persia. Characterized as a quiet, sad-faced, delicate woman,[1] Van Hook attended Rockford College of Rockford, Illinois when she was a widow, having lost her husband and only child in 1872. She began then to prepare for mission work and went to Tabriz, Persia, under the Presbyterian Board of Missions. She established there a boarding school for girls, modeled after Rockford. Van Hook did much evangelistic work in Persia and lectured extensively in the U.S. on return trips. She made five journeys to the U.S. from Persia, and on each trip visited different places of interest in Europe.[2]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "VAN HOOK, Mrs. Loretta C.". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 732.
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- ^ The Jubilee Book of the Alumnae Association of Rockford College: Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Graduation of the First Class 1854-1904. The Association. 1904. pp. 96–97. Retrieved October 7, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
