Sarah B. Capron dating history

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Sarah B. Capron (1824–1918) was an American evangelical missionary. She served for 30 years as a missionary in India along three lines, by educational work, by medical work, and by training Bible women for evangelistic work. For three years, she conducted the boarding school in Madura, later Capron Hall School. Later, she opened a boarding school in Manamadura, and still later supervised day schools for Hindu girls, with an attendance of hundreds. In all of these, she pursued original methods to do her work. She qualified herself for simple medical practice, going among the homes and opening a dispensary, and had the satisfaction of seeing this develop into the Madura Hospital for Women and Children. For 24 years, she served on the Executive Committee of the Woman's Board, and for five years, She was in charge of the women's department in the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.