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Winifred Heston
Winifred Heston, M.D., (April 27, 1872 – June 1, 1922) was an American Presbyterian medical missionary who worked in India with the Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Heston attended medical school at Laura Memorial Women’s Medical College of Cincinnati and was an associate physician at the General Hospital in Miraj, India, from 1903 to 1907. She performed over five hundred surgical operations during her service in Miraj.
Heston was born in Ionia, Michigan on April 27, 1872, to Alonzo Heston and Mary Elizabeth Heston (née Brown). Heston had one half-sister, Jessie B. Coulter (née Clark), a daughter of her mother’s from a previous marriage to Henry N. Clark. Heston spent her early life in Charlotte, Michigan, with her mother and half-sister.
Heston served as an associate physician at the General Hospital in Miraj, India, from 1903 to 1907. During Heston's first period of missionary work in India, her sister, Jessie B. Coulter (née Clark), died following a long illness. This was very difficult for Heston since she was so far away from her sister, who was still living in Michigan when it happened. The loss made Heston reluctant to return to the United States, since she knew her sister would no longer be there when she arrived in Michigan.
Heston returned to the United States in 1908. She sailed from India on March 15, 1908 and arrived in New York on May 22, 1908. During her voyage home from India, Heston became romantically involved with a British officer who had also been working in the Maharashtra State in India during the time Heston was there. He was aboard the same ship Heston took when she left India in 1908, both of them traveling through Italy on their trip back to their respective home countries.
Heston and other passengers on the ship, including other missionaries and Italian military officers, visited Naples, Italy, after their ship arrived in Europe. During this time, Heston wrote in letters to friends at home that she had become close to the officer, who was a major in the British army. Heston had encountered the officer before, during her time in India, when he brought her back to the Presbyterian mission after she had fallen off her horse.
After they parted ways in Italy, Heston received a letter from the officer, claiming that he would come to visit her if she gave him any encouragement. Heston indicated in a letter that she planned to invite him to visit her in the United States.
In a letter to her friend in 1908, Heston suggested that she planned to marry the officer. She feared that this would prevent her from returning to India to do missionary work. Ultimately, Heston never married, and returned to India for a second mission in 1910.
After returning home, Heston compiled a collection of her personal letters into the novel A Bluestocking in India: Her Medical Wards and Messages Home, which was published by the Fleming H. Revell Company in 1910.
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Winifred Heston
Winifred Heston, M.D., (April 27, 1872 – June 1, 1922) was an American Presbyterian medical missionary who worked in India with the Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Heston attended medical school at Laura Memorial Women’s Medical College of Cincinnati and was an associate physician at the General Hospital in Miraj, India, from 1903 to 1907. She performed over five hundred surgical operations during her service in Miraj.
Heston was born in Ionia, Michigan on April 27, 1872, to Alonzo Heston and Mary Elizabeth Heston (née Brown). Heston had one half-sister, Jessie B. Coulter (née Clark), a daughter of her mother’s from a previous marriage to Henry N. Clark. Heston spent her early life in Charlotte, Michigan, with her mother and half-sister.
Heston served as an associate physician at the General Hospital in Miraj, India, from 1903 to 1907. During Heston's first period of missionary work in India, her sister, Jessie B. Coulter (née Clark), died following a long illness. This was very difficult for Heston since she was so far away from her sister, who was still living in Michigan when it happened. The loss made Heston reluctant to return to the United States, since she knew her sister would no longer be there when she arrived in Michigan.
Heston returned to the United States in 1908. She sailed from India on March 15, 1908 and arrived in New York on May 22, 1908. During her voyage home from India, Heston became romantically involved with a British officer who had also been working in the Maharashtra State in India during the time Heston was there. He was aboard the same ship Heston took when she left India in 1908, both of them traveling through Italy on their trip back to their respective home countries.
Heston and other passengers on the ship, including other missionaries and Italian military officers, visited Naples, Italy, after their ship arrived in Europe. During this time, Heston wrote in letters to friends at home that she had become close to the officer, who was a major in the British army. Heston had encountered the officer before, during her time in India, when he brought her back to the Presbyterian mission after she had fallen off her horse.
After they parted ways in Italy, Heston received a letter from the officer, claiming that he would come to visit her if she gave him any encouragement. Heston indicated in a letter that she planned to invite him to visit her in the United States.
In a letter to her friend in 1908, Heston suggested that she planned to marry the officer. She feared that this would prevent her from returning to India to do missionary work. Ultimately, Heston never married, and returned to India for a second mission in 1910.
After returning home, Heston compiled a collection of her personal letters into the novel A Bluestocking in India: Her Medical Wards and Messages Home, which was published by the Fleming H. Revell Company in 1910.