George E. White (missionary)

George Edward White was an American Congregationalist missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for fortythree years. Stationed in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide as President of the Anatolia College in Merzifon, White attempted to save the lives of many Armenians, including refused to tell where Armenians were hiding so to save them from getting deported or killed. Thus he became an important witness to the Armenian Genocide.

On October 14, 1861, George Edward White was born in Marash, Ottoman Empire where his Christian missionary parents had arrived in 1856. He then traveled to the United States to attend Iowa College in Grinnell, Iowa and marry. Deciding upon a pastoral career, White then attended the Hartford Theological Seminary during the RussoTurkish War and continued his education at Oxford University in England. Upon returning to Iowa, he received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Grinnell College.

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