Isabella Ruth Eakin Dodd (June 26, 1861 – July 4, 1937) was an American Presbyterian missionary in fields located in present-day Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and China.
Isabella Ruth "Belle" Eakin was from Rose Point, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Joseph A. Eakin and Elizabeth McCay Eakin. [1] She graduated from Western Female Seminary in Oxford, Ohio, in 1886.
Eakin began as a Presbyterian missionary in North Siam (now Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand) in 1887, following her older brother John Anderson Eakin , [2] her older sister Elizabeth, and other relatives in their similar work in the region. [3] With her husband, Dodd opened a mission at Lamphun near Chiang Mai in 1891, from 1904 to 1907 ran a mission in Kengtung, [4] and in 1917 opened a mission station in Yunnan Province, [5] considered "the most remote station of the Presbyterian mission". [1]
Dodd wrote several articles about her work for American periodicals, especially Woman's Work. [6] [7] [8] She finished the book that she began with her husband, The Tai Race: Elder Brother of the Chinese (1923), [9] and translated the Gospel of Matthew into a Tai dialect. She retired from the mission field in 1928. [1]
Eakin married fellow missionary William Clifton Dodd in 1889. They adopted a daughter, Leila Marie, in 1898. Her husband died in 1919, and she died in 1937, at the age of 76, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. [1] She was remembered as a notable former member when Clintonville Presbyterian Church held its centennial in 1941. [3]
Isabella Ruth Eakin Dodd (June 26, 1861 – July 4, 1937) was an American Presbyterian missionary in fields located in present-day Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and China.
Isabella Ruth "Belle" Eakin was from Rose Point, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Joseph A. Eakin and Elizabeth McCay Eakin. [1] She graduated from Western Female Seminary in Oxford, Ohio, in 1886.
Eakin began as a Presbyterian missionary in North Siam (now Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand) in 1887, following her older brother John Anderson Eakin , [2] her older sister Elizabeth, and other relatives in their similar work in the region. [3] With her husband, Dodd opened a mission at Lamphun near Chiang Mai in 1891, from 1904 to 1907 ran a mission in Kengtung, [4] and in 1917 opened a mission station in Yunnan Province, [5] considered "the most remote station of the Presbyterian mission". [1]
Dodd wrote several articles about her work for American periodicals, especially Woman's Work. [6] [7] [8] She finished the book that she began with her husband, The Tai Race: Elder Brother of the Chinese (1923), [9] and translated the Gospel of Matthew into a Tai dialect. She retired from the mission field in 1928. [1]
Eakin married fellow missionary William Clifton Dodd in 1889. They adopted a daughter, Leila Marie, in 1898. Her husband died in 1919, and she died in 1937, at the age of 76, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. [1] She was remembered as a notable former member when Clintonville Presbyterian Church held its centennial in 1941. [3]