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Mary Schauffler Platt

1868–1954

A missionary writer with deep ties to Persia, she turned years of firsthand experience into vivid books about faith, education, and daily life in Urmia. Her work brings together travel writing, wartime witness, and a close knowledge of the communities she served.

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The Child in the Midst

The Child in the Midst

by Mary Schauffler Platt

About the author

Born in 1868, Mary Schauffler Platt wrote as Mary Schauffler Labaree and Mary Schauffler Platt. Library and archive records connect her with a substantial body of missionary writing on Persia, including The War Journal of a Missionary in Persia, The Home with the Open Door, and other works centered on Urmia and Christian mission life.

Her books suggest a writer who combined observation with purpose: she wrote about education, social service, and religious life, and she did so from direct experience rather than from a distance. That gives her work a strong documentary quality, especially in writing related to wartime Persia and the daily realities of mission communities.

She died in 1954. A surviving memorial page and catalog records preserve her name and publications, even when fuller biographical details are hard to confirm today.