Ellen M. Stone

Ellen M. Stone
B&W portrait photo of a seated, middle-aged woman with hair in an up-do, wearing a dark dress with a white lacy kerchief, holding a book.
Born
Ellen Maria Stone

July 24, 1846
Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedDecember 14, 1927
Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupations
  • missionary
  • teacher
  • author
Known forMiss Stone Affair
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Ellen M. Stone (1846–1927) was an American Protestant missionary, teacher, and author,[1] stationed in Bulgaria and Macedonia, Turkey. Kidnapped in the course of her work, the incident was described as "America's First Modern Hostage Crisis".[2] The circumstances in connection with her capture by brigands, September 3, 1901, on a mountain road in Macedonia, and her subsequent detention by them for nearly six months, pending the payment of her ransom, were given wide newspaper publicity. Her narration of these events was published in McClure's, May–October, 1902.[3][4]

  1. ^ Herringshaw's American Statesman and Public Official Year-book. American Publishers' Association. 1914. p. 894. Retrieved 31 December 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Carpenter, Teresa (13 December 2016). The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis. Simon and Schuster. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4391-3067-4. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  3. ^ Howe, Julia Ward; Graves, Mary Hannah (1904). Sketches of Representative Women of New England. New England Historical Publishing Company. pp. 459–463. Retrieved 31 December 2023 – via Wikisource. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America. American Commonwealth Company. p. 787. Retrieved 31 December 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.