Kugler, Anna Sarah (1856–1930)
Kugler, Anna Sarah (1856–1930)
American medical missionary. Born April 19, 1856, in Ardmore, PA; died July 26, 1930, in Guntur, South India; dau. of Charles Kugler and Harriet (Sheaff) Kugler.
Served as assistant physician at State Hospital for Insane in Norristown, PA (1880–83); intent on being a medical missionary in India, arrived at Guntur Mission as only woman physician in Madras Presidency (Nov 29, 1883); appointed by Lutheran Women's Missionary Convention as medical missionary (1885), opened dispensary (1886) and 50-bed hospital (1898); oversaw openings of maternity and surgical sections, children's ward, chapel, and nurses' home; published memoir Guntur Mission Hospital (1928).
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