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	'''Mary Washington Bacheler''' (February 22, 1860 – November 5, 1939)<ref name=":0"/> was an American physician and Baptist medical missionary in India.		'''Mary Washington Bacheler''' (February 22, 1860 – November 5, 1939)<ref name=":0"/> was an American physician and Baptist medical [[missionary]] in India.

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==
	Mary Washington Bacheler was born February 22, 1860, in [[New Hampton, New Hampshire]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtZtkf35CF0C&q=%22Mary+Washington+Bacheler%22&pg=PA17\|title=Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia\|last=Windsor\|first=Laura Lynn\|date=2002\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|isbn=9781576073926\|pages=17}}</ref> the daughter of Rev. Otis Robinson Bacheler and his second wife, Sarah P. Merrill Bacheler.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/freebaptistwoman00prov\|quote=Mary Washington Bacheler.\|title=The Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society, 1873–1921\|date=1922\|publisher=The Society\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/freebaptistwoman00prov/page/102 102]-104\|language=en}}</ref> When Mary was a girl, she moved to India, where her father, a medical doctor and ordained minister, and her mother, an educator, were Baptist ~~missionaries~~ at [[Midnapore]].<ref>{{Cite book\|url=http://archive.org/details/otisrobinsonbach00stac_0\|title=Otis Robinson Bacheler : fifty-three years missionary to India\|last=Stacy\|first=Thomas H.\|date=1904\|publisher=Boston, Mass. : Morning Star\|others=Princeton Theological Seminary Library}}</ref> As a teen she worked with her mother, visiting and teaching women in [[zenana]]. She returned to the United States to pursue a medical degree at the Women's Medical College in New York City.<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3GXiAAAAMAAJ&q=Mary+W.+Bacheler&pg=PA421\|title=Free Baptist Cyclopaedia: Historical and Biographical : the Rise of the Freewill Baptist Connection and of Those General and Open Communion Baptists Which, Merging Together, Form One People, Their Doctrines, Polity, Publications, Schools and Missions, with Brief Biographies of Ministers and Others Identified with the Growth and Strength of the Denomination\|last1=Burgess\|first1=Gideon Albert\|last2=Ward\|first2=John T.\|date=1889\|publisher=Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Company\|pages=420–421, 426}}</ref>		Mary Washington Bacheler was born February 22, 1860, in [[New Hampton, New Hampshire]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtZtkf35CF0C&q=%22Mary+Washington+Bacheler%22&pg=PA17\|title=Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia\|last=Windsor\|first=Laura Lynn\|date=2002\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|isbn=9781576073926\|pages=17}}</ref> the daughter of Rev. Otis Robinson Bacheler and his second wife, Sarah P. Merrill Bacheler.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/freebaptistwoman00prov\|quote=Mary Washington Bacheler.\|title=The Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society, 1873–1921\|date=1922\|publisher=The Society\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/freebaptistwoman00prov/page/102 102]-104\|language=en}}</ref> When Mary was a girl, she moved to India, where her father, a medical doctor and ordained minister, and her mother, an educator, were Baptist [[Christian mission]]aries at [[Midnapore]].<ref>{{Cite book\|url=http://archive.org/details/otisrobinsonbach00stac_0\|title=Otis Robinson Bacheler : fifty-three years missionary to India\|last=Stacy\|first=Thomas H.\|date=1904\|publisher=Boston, Mass. : Morning Star\|others=Princeton Theological Seminary Library}}</ref> As a teen she worked with her mother, visiting and teaching women in [[zenana]]. She returned to the United States to pursue a medical degree at the Women's Medical College in New York City.<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3GXiAAAAMAAJ&q=Mary+W.+Bacheler&pg=PA421\|title=Free Baptist Cyclopaedia: Historical and Biographical : the Rise of the Freewill Baptist Connection and of Those General and Open Communion Baptists Which, Merging Together, Form One People, Their Doctrines, Polity, Publications, Schools and Missions, with Brief Biographies of Ministers and Others Identified with the Growth and Strength of the Denomination\|last1=Burgess\|first1=Gideon Albert\|last2=Ward\|first2=John T.\|date=1889\|publisher=Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Company\|pages=420–421, 426}}</ref>

	== Career ==		== Career ==
	Bacheler completed her medical degree in 1890, and was appointed to assist her father, as the first medical missionary of the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society. She took over her parents' work at Midnapore when they retired in 1893. She taught school and provided medical care for women who would not see a male doctor for religious reasons.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> She was in the United States in 1900 for her own health, and to tend to her ailing parents (they died in 1900 and 1901). "I suppose I worked too hard after father and mother left," she recalled, "for several times I got low fever and was quite incapacitated."<ref>Bacheler, Dr. Mary W. "Recollection of FIfty Years in India" ''Bengal-Orissa Tidings'' (June 1934): 9.</ref> She spoke in New England churches while she was on leave.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39023624/mary_w_bacheler_1902/\|title=Church notes\|date=September 3, 1902\|work=St. Johnsbury Republican\|access-date=November 14, 2019\|page=4\|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>		Bacheler completed her medical degree in 1890, and was appointed to assist her father, as the first medical missionary of the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society. She took over her parents' work at Midnapore when they retired in 1893. She taught school and provided medical care for women who would not see a male doctor for religious reasons. <ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> She was in the United States in 1900 for her own health, and to tend to her ailing parents (they died in 1900 and 1901). "I suppose I worked too hard after father and mother left," she recalled, "for several times I got low fever and was quite incapacitated."<ref>Bacheler, Dr. Mary W. "Recollection of FIfty Years in India" ''Bengal-Orissa Tidings'' (June 1934): 9.</ref> She spoke in New England churches while she was on leave.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39023624/mary_w_bacheler_1902/\|title=Church notes\|date=September 3, 1902\|work=St. Johnsbury Republican\|access-date=November 14, 2019\|page=4\|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

	Bacheler returned to India in 1903, and lived with Miss Lavina Coombs in Midnapore, until Bacheler was transferred to [[Balasore]] in 1910. The two women traveled to the United States for rest in 1912–1913. Bacheler was back in India in 1914, first helping a Miss Butts at [[Shantipur]], and then back in Balasore to run an orphanage there.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma\|title=Our work in the Orient 1871–1919\|last=Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society\|date=1919\|publisher=Chicago : Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society\|others=Columbia University Libraries\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma/page/89 89]}}</ref> She spoke the [[Bengali language\|Bengali]] and [[Odia language\|Odia]] languages fluently.<ref>"Mary Washington Bacheler" ''Tidings from Bengal-Orissa'' (June 1934): 3-7.</ref>		Bacheler returned to India in 1903, and lived with Miss Lavina Coombs in Midnapore, until Bacheler was transferred to [[Balasore]] in 1910. The two women traveled to the United States for rest in 1912–1913. Bacheler was back in India in 1914, first helping a Miss Butts at [[Shantipur]], and then back in Balasore to run an orphanage there.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma\|title=Our work in the Orient 1871–1919\|last=Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society\|date=1919\|publisher=Chicago : Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society\|others=Columbia University Libraries\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma/page/89 89]}}</ref> She spoke the [[Bengali language\|Bengali]] and [[Odia language\|Odia]] languages fluently.<ref>"Mary Washington Bacheler" ''Tidings from Bengal-Orissa'' (June 1934): 3-7.</ref>

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	== Career ==		== Career ==
	Bacheler completed her medical degree in 1890, and was appointed to assist her father, as the first medical missionary of the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society. She took over her parents' work at Midnapore when they retired in 1893. She taught school and provided medical care for women who would not see a male doctor for religious reasons. <ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> She was in the United States in 1900 for her own health, and to tend to her ailing parents (they died in 1900 and 1901). "I suppose I worked too hard after father and mother left," she recalled, "for several times I got low fever and was quite incapacitated."<ref>Bacheler, Dr. Mary W. "Recollection of FIfty Years in India" ''Bengal-Orissa Tidings'' (June 1934): 9.</ref> She spoke in New England churches while she was on leave.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39023624/mary_w_bacheler_1902/\|title=Church notes\|date=September 3, 1902\|work=St. Johnsbury Republican\|access-date=November 14, 2019\|page=4\|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>		Bacheler completed her medical degree in 1890, and was appointed to assist her father, as the first medical missionary of the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society. She took over her parents' work at Midnapore when they retired in 1893. She taught school and provided medical care for women who would not see a male doctor for religious reasons.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> She was in the United States in 1900 for her own health, and to tend to her ailing parents (they died in 1900 and 1901). "I suppose I worked too hard after father and mother left," she recalled, "for several times I got low fever and was quite incapacitated."<ref>Bacheler, Dr. Mary W. "Recollection of FIfty Years in India" ''Bengal-Orissa Tidings'' (June 1934): 9.</ref> She spoke in New England churches while she was on leave.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39023624/mary_w_bacheler_1902/\|title=Church notes\|date=September 3, 1902\|work=St. Johnsbury Republican\|access-date=November 14, 2019\|page=4\|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

	Bacheler returned to India in 1903, and lived with Miss Lavina Coombs in Midnapore, until Bacheler was transferred to [[Balasore]] in 1910. The two women traveled to the United States for rest in 1912–1913. Bacheler was back in India in 1914, first helping a Miss Butts at [[Shantipur]], and then back in Balasore to run an orphanage there.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma\|title=Our work in the Orient 1871–1919\|last=Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society\|date=1919\|publisher=Chicago : Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society\|others=Columbia University Libraries\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma/page/89 89]}}</ref> She spoke the [[Bengali language\|Bengali]] and [[Odia language\|Odia]] languages fluently.<ref>"Mary Washington Bacheler" ''Tidings from Bengal-Orissa'' (June 1934): 3-7.</ref>		Bacheler returned to India in 1903, and lived with Miss Lavina Coombs in Midnapore, until Bacheler was transferred to [[Balasore]] in 1910. The two women traveled to the United States for rest in 1912–1913. Bacheler was back in India in 1914, first helping a Miss Butts at [[Shantipur]], and then back in Balasore to run an orphanage there.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma\|title=Our work in the Orient 1871–1919\|last=Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society\|date=1919\|publisher=Chicago : Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society\|others=Columbia University Libraries\|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma/page/89 89]}}</ref> She spoke the [[Bengali language\|Bengali]] and [[Odia language\|Odia]] languages fluently.<ref>"Mary Washington Bacheler" ''Tidings from Bengal-Orissa'' (June 1934): 3-7.</ref>

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| alt = A middle-aged white woman wearing glasses and a high-necked blouse; her hair is arranged in a slightly bouffant top bun.
| caption = Mary W. Bacheler, from 1922 publication.
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| birth_place = [[New Hampton, New Hampshire]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1939|11|5|1860|2|22}}
| death_place = [[Newton, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| nationality = American
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'''Mary Washington Bacheler''' (February 22, 1860 – November 5, 1939)<ref name=":0"/> was an American physician and Baptist medical missionary in India.

== Early life ==
Mary Washington Bacheler was born February 22, 1860, in [[New Hampton, New Hampshire]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtZtkf35CF0C&q=%22Mary+Washington+Bacheler%22&pg=PA17|title=Women in Medicine: An Encyclopedia|last=Windsor|first=Laura Lynn|date=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781576073926|pages=17}}</ref> the daughter of Rev. Otis Robinson Bacheler and his second wife, Sarah P. Merrill Bacheler.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/freebaptistwoman00prov|quote=Mary Washington Bacheler.|title=The Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society, 1873–1921|date=1922|publisher=The Society|pages=[https://archive.org/details/freebaptistwoman00prov/page/102 102]-104|language=en}}</ref> When Mary was a girl, she moved to India, where her father, a medical doctor and ordained minister, and her mother, an educator, were Baptist missionaries at [[Midnapore]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/otisrobinsonbach00stac_0|title=Otis Robinson Bacheler : fifty-three years missionary to India|last=Stacy|first=Thomas H.|date=1904|publisher=Boston, Mass. : Morning Star|others=Princeton Theological Seminary Library}}</ref> As a teen she worked with her mother, visiting and teaching women in [[zenana]]. She returned to the United States to pursue a medical degree at the Women's Medical College in New York City.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3GXiAAAAMAAJ&q=Mary+W.+Bacheler&pg=PA421|title=Free Baptist Cyclopaedia: Historical and Biographical : the Rise of the Freewill Baptist Connection and of Those General and Open Communion Baptists Which, Merging Together, Form One People, Their Doctrines, Polity, Publications, Schools and Missions, with Brief Biographies of Ministers and Others Identified with the Growth and Strength of the Denomination|last1=Burgess|first1=Gideon Albert|last2=Ward|first2=John T.|date=1889|publisher=Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Company|pages=420–421, 426}}</ref>

== Career ==
Bacheler completed her medical degree in 1890, and was appointed to assist her father, as the first medical missionary of the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society. She took over her parents' work at Midnapore when they retired in 1893. She taught school and provided medical care for women who would not see a male doctor for religious reasons. <ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> She was in the United States in 1900 for her own health, and to tend to her ailing parents (they died in 1900 and 1901). "I suppose I worked too hard after father and mother left," she recalled, "for several times I got low fever and was quite incapacitated."<ref>Bacheler, Dr. Mary W. "Recollection of FIfty Years in India" ''Bengal-Orissa Tidings'' (June 1934): 9.</ref> She spoke in New England churches while she was on leave.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39023624/mary_w_bacheler_1902/|title=Church notes|date=September 3, 1902|work=St. Johnsbury Republican|access-date=November 14, 2019|page=4|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Bacheler returned to India in 1903, and lived with Miss Lavina Coombs in Midnapore, until Bacheler was transferred to [[Balasore]] in 1910. The two women traveled to the United States for rest in 1912–1913. Bacheler was back in India in 1914, first helping a Miss Butts at [[Shantipur]], and then back in Balasore to run an orphanage there.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma|title=Our work in the Orient 1871–1919|last=Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society|date=1919|publisher=Chicago : Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society|others=Columbia University Libraries|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ourworkinorient100woma/page/89 89]}}</ref> She spoke the [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[Odia language|Odia]] languages fluently.<ref>"Mary Washington Bacheler" ''Tidings from Bengal-Orissa'' (June 1934): 3-7.</ref>

Bacheler returned to the United States in 1921 for the jubilee of the Woman's American Baptist Free Missionary Society, with Midnapore teacher [[Khanto Bala Rai]].<ref name=":1" /> She retired in 1933 and left India in 1936.<ref name=":0" />

== Personal life ==
Bacheler died in 1939, aged 79 years, in [[Newton, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38992028/obituary_for_mary_w_bacheler_aged_69/|title=Dr. Mary W. Bacheler|date=November 6, 1939|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=November 14, 2019|page=6|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> There is a small collection of her papers at the [[American Baptist Historical Society]] archives.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://libraries.mercer.edu/archivesspace/repositories/2/archival_objects/4444|title=Bacheler, Mary Washington (1860–1939), 1911–1939|website=American Baptist Historical Society|access-date=November 14, 2019}}</ref>

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