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Jan 28, 1830 Jasper County, Georgia, United States Died on 01 Jan 1909 (aged 78)
American writers, missionary (1830-1909)
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About Martha Foster Crawford
- Martha Foster Crawford (January 28, 1830 -1909) was an American writer and missionary to China (1852–1909).
- She was the first foreign missionary from Alabama.
- Her parents were the deacon, John Lovelace Savidge Foster, and Susanna Hollifield Foster.
- In 1851, shortly before she became a missionary to China, she married Tarleton Perry Crawford, whom she had known for three weeks.
- They arrived in Shanghai in March 1852.
- During their marriage, they adopted two children.Crawford wrote several books and diaries.
- Zao yang fan shu (Foreign Cookery in Chinese; 1866) was the first Chinese-language Western cookbook published in Shanghai.
