Haygood, Laura Askew (1845–1900)
Haygood, Laura Askew (1845–1900)
American educator and missionary. Born Laura Askew Haygood, Oct 14, 1845, in Watkinsville, Georgia; died April 29, 1900, in Shanghai, China; dau. of Greene B. Haygood (lawyer, died 1862) and Martha Ann (Askew) Haygood (schoolteacher); sister of Atticus Green Haygood; graduate of Wesleyan Female College, 1864.
Served as principal of Atlanta Girls' High School (1877–84); placed in charge of missionary work in Shanghai by Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Church, South (1844); in Shanghai, supervised several schools; helped found McTyeire Home and School (1892), which became a top-ranking private girls' high school in Shanghai until it was closed by Communist government (1949).
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