Mary martin sloop biography for kids
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Collection Number: 03620-z
Collection Title: Mary T. Martin Sloop Letters, 1945-1946.
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| Abstract | Dr. Mary Martin Sloop moved to Avery County, N.C., in 1911 with her husband and spent the rest of her life building up the Crossnore School, a home and school for mountain children. The collection contains letters from Sloop about her work at Crossnore School and from two children who benefitted from schola • Share Now Our daughter Mary Evelyn writes a play each year for a cast of homeschooled children. One day last year she was at the public library searching for an idea for her next play when her eyes spotted a book high on a shelf in the biography section. She pulled down Miracle in the Hills. She was captivated bygd the story and wrote her play with the same title. Miracle in the Hills is a memoir written by Dr. Mary Martin Sloop. She and her husband, Dr. Eustace Sloop, came to the tiny village of Crossnore in the mountains of North Carolina as missionaries in the early 1900s. They provided medical care and worked to helped the residents in many ways. Dr. Eustace Sloop built a power plant and was instrumental in building a hospital. Dr. Mary Sloop worked to bring education to the mountain children and established Crossnore School in 1913. Now, many years after her death, Crossnore School is a residential facility for eighty children whose parents have let drugs and other prob • Mary T. Martin SloopMedical missonary Mary T. Martin Sloop (March 9, 1873 – January 13, 1962) was instrumental to the improvement of healthcare and education in the mountains of North Carolina. She is most notable for founding, expanding, and developing the Crossnore School, serving as director until 1959. In 1953, Sloop published Miracle in the Hills, her autobiography detailing her lifelong efforts in medicine and education reform. Early life[edit]Sloop was born in Davidson, North Carolina on March 9, 1873. She pursued her college education from both Statesville Female College and Davidson College. Although she sought to pursue a medical degree from North Carolina Medical Institute in Davidson, her gender barred her from studying anatomy there. She ended up receiving her degree from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1906.[1] Sloop had aspirations to complete missionary work outside of the United States, but served as a medical |