Lizzie M. Guthrie | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | Elizabeth M. Guthrie 1838 |
| Died | May 15, 1880 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Allegheny Cemetery |
| Known for | first missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant Church |
| Profession | missionary |
| Senior posting | |
| Profession | missionary |
| Previous post | India and Japan under the auspices of the Woman's Union Missionary Society of New York |
Lizzie M. Guthrie (1838 – May 15, 1880) was a 19th-century American Christian missionary. Initially affiliated with the Woman's Union Missionary Society of New York, she began providing services in India and Japan in 1868. While on furlough back in the U.S., in 1879, she helped establish the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant Church. Selected by the new organization to be its first foreign missionary, Guthrie died in 1880 en route to her assignment in Japan.