Name: hamlin-o -- CYRUS HAMLIN

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  1. Henrietta Ann Louise Hamlin: Birth: 5 DEC 1839 in Constantinople, Turkey. Death: 10 AUG 1928 in Boston, MA

  2. Susan Elizabeth Hamlin: Birth: 6 MAY 1842 in Bebek, Constantinople, Turkey. Death: 8 DEC 1859 in Constantinople, Turkey

  3. Clara Hamlin Hamlin: Birth: 10 SEP 1845.

  4. Margaret Caroline "Carrie" Hamlin: Birth: ABT JUN 1846.

  5. Abbie Frances Hamlin: Birth: 13 NOV 1847 in Bebek, Constantinople, Turkey.

  6. Mary R. F. Hamlin: Birth: 29 JUL 1850. Death: 8 SEP 1852 in Constantinople, Turkey


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  1. Harriet Clara Hamlin: Birth: 3 MAR 1833 in Constantinople, Turkey. Death: 23 JAN 1902 in Marash, Turkey

  2. Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin: Birth: 5 SEP 1855.


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Notes
a. Note:   Source: Unless otherwise stated, information is from missionary records held at the American Board of Missions headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey.
  Graduated Bowdoin College 1834; Bangor Seminary 1837. Sailed from Boston 2 Dec 1838. Arrived Constantinople 4 Feb 1839. Resigned from Board in 1860 to become President of Robert College in Istanbul. Returned to US 1877.
  Was cousin of Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin. Inventor of stoves, rat traps, beer-barrel laundry, baker, an effective cholera mixture. Founded Robert College and resuscitated Middlebury College when it was almost defunct.
  Once on mission field in 1839, it appeared mission work was doomed, but within five months new Sultan, Abdul Medjid, set into motion a brighter era. In 1840 Hamlin opened a school in his house which became Bebek Seminary, which he was connected with for 19 years. Trained his students in self-supporting industries so that they could stay in seminary during the Crimean War period. Many of the early Christian workers in Turkey owed their education largely to Dr. Hamlin. From May 1856 to February 1857, he was in the US settling his elder daughters in school. His desire to put a college into operation did not fit in with mission board plans so he resigned, secured backing of Christopher Robert of New York and Robert College was opened in 1863. Started out in a house in Bebek but new building on Hissar Hill was opened in 1871.
  In 1873 he and his third wife went to America, trying to secure an endowment for the College. After a very serious illness and no small success in raising funds, he was met with the refusal of Mr. Robert to have him go back to the College. So in 1877 his connection with the college ended and he became professor at Bangor Seminary for three years, then President of Middlebury College. After five years, at age 75, he resigned and retired to live in Lexington, Massachusetts.
 SOURCES NAMED IN MEMORIAL BOOK: Among The Turks by C. Hamlin My Life and Times by C. Hamlin For additional information on Ferikoy Cemetery and tombstones, please see the following book at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah: A FINE PLACE OF REST: AMERICANS IN THE PROTESTANT CEMETERY, FERIKOY-ISTANBUL, TURKEY, 1998, Researched and compiled by submitter.
 

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