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{{short description|American medical missionary}}

{{Infobox person
| name = Anna Kay Scott
| image = AnnaKayScott1862.png
| alt = A white couple posed for a portrait in an oval frame. The man is seated, and wears a beard and a suit; the woman is standing, and wears a dress with a high collar and a voluminous skirt. Her hair is center parted; she had one hand on the man's shoulder.
| caption = Anna Kay Scott and Rev. E. P. Scott, about 1862.
| other_names = Mildred Marston (pseudonym)
| birth_name = Mildred Anne Hasseltine Judson Kay
| birth_date = April 20, 1838
| birth_place = Payson, Illinois
| death_date = October 18, 1923
| death_place = Granville, Ohio
| occupation = Physician, medical missionary, writer
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'''Anna Kay Scott''' (April 20, 1838 – October 18, 1923), born '''Mildred Anne Hasseltine Judson Kay,''' was an American medical missionary in India and China.

== Early life ==
Mildred Anne Hasseltine Judson Kay was born in [[Payson, Illinois]], one eleven children born to Robert Garnett Kay and Cynthia Mills Burrus Kay. Her parents were from Virginia, and her father was a slaveowner. She graduated from Phipps Union Seminary in [[Albion (village), New York|Albion, New York]], and took courses at [[Quincy University|Quincy College]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Scott|first=Anna Kay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XEXAQAAMAAJ|title=An Autobiography of Anna Kay Scott, M.D.|date=1917|publisher=Anna Kay Scott, M.D.|language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
[[File:AnnaKayScott1912.png|alt=A group portrait of six women, taken outdoors; five Chinese women stand in a row, wearing light-colored tunics and trousers; one white woman, older, is seated in front of the group, wearing all black, with her grey hair dressed in an updo.|thumb|Anna Kay Scott with five Chinese nurses, from a 1912 publication.]]
Anna Kay taught school in [[Columbus, Illinois]], as a young woman. She married a missionary in 1861,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Ray|first=Thomas|date=2011-04-21|title=Edward & Anna Scott|url=http://www.tribune.org/edward-anna-scott/|access-date=2020-11-25|website=Baptist Bible Tribune|language=en-US}}</ref> and the two left for a mission post in [[Nagaon|Nowgong]] in [[Assam]] the following year, arriving in the midst of a [[cholera]] epidemic. They spent a year learning [[Assamese language|Assamese]], and worked among the [[Karbi people|Mikir]] (Karbi) people in the hills of Assam. She described the [[1869 Cachar earthquake]] in her memoirs: "For two weeks there were tremors of the earth and I knew not if a more severe earthquake might come at any moment." Her husband experienced [[heat stroke]] and died from cholera in the months after the quake.<ref name=":0" />

In widowhood, Scott continued mission work in India, working for the Woman's Baptist Missionary Society at [[Guwahati]] until 1873, when she returned to the United States with her three children. In 1878, she earned a medical degree in [[Cleveland|Cleveland, Ohio]], and began a private practice in that city. In 1889, Scott went to [[Shantou]] in China, as a medical missionary. She expanded an infirmary into a hospital there,<ref>{{Cite journal|date=July 1912|title=Mrs. Scott's Letter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wycPAAAAIAAJ&q=Scott&pg=PA688|journal=Missions: American Baptist International Magazine|volume=3|pages=688|last1=Grose|first1=Howard Benjamin}}</ref> and evacuated to Kobe during the unrest of the [[Boxer Rebellion]].<ref name=":0" /> She retired from mission work in 1914, replaced by her granddaughter, Dr. Mildred Scott.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=October 1914|title=Medical Mission Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BpnNAAAAMAAJ&q=Mildred+Scott+doctor+China+mission&pg=PA846|journal=Missions: American Baptist International Magazine|volume=5|pages=846|last1=Grose|first1=Howard Benjamin}}</ref>

Books by Scott include ''Korno Siga, the Mountain Chief, or Life in Assam'' (1889, using the pseudonym Mildred Marston),<ref>{{Cite book|last=Scott|first=Anna Kay|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t2w38jc9c|title=Korno Siga, the mountain chief; or, Life in Assam|date=1889|publisher=The America Sunday-School Union|hdl=2027/loc.ark:/13960/t2w38jc9c}}</ref> ''Gleanings from the Journal of a Medical Missionary'', and ''An Autobiography of Anna Kay Scott, M.D.'' (1917).<ref name=":0" />

== Personal life ==
Anna Kay married Edward Payson Scott in 1861. They had three children before Rev. Scott died in 1869.<ref name=":1" /> She died in 1923, at her daughter's home in [[Granville, Ohio]], aged 85 years.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Society|first=American Baptist Foreign Mission|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jP42AAAAMAAJ&q=Anna+Kay+Scott|title=Annual Report ...|date=1923|pages=88|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=1923-10-19|title=Dr. Scott Dies|pages=8|work=The Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63998353/dr-scott-dies/|access-date=2020-11-25|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==

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