Mary West Niles

Mary West Niles: Evangelist, American, Medical Missionary (1854-1933)

Mary West Niles (1854 – 1933) was an American physician and missionary. Niles was the first woman missionary physician at the Canton Hospital and opened a school for the blind in China. Niles learned the Cantonese language so she could translate the English Braille system into Cantonese.[1]

  1. ^ "Dr.Mary W.Niles", The North-China herald and Supreme Court & Consular gazette, January 25, 1933, Page 137