Calista V. Luther

Calista Vinton Luther (September 1841 – July 1924) was an American missionary and medical doctor, born in Burma (Myanmar).

[1] From 1864 to 1872, she and her husband continued her parents' work and ran the Kemmerdine Mission school[2] and clinic in Kyimyintaing, three miles from Rangoon (Yangon).

In Philadelphia, Calista V. Luther trained as a physician at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1885,[3] and practiced in that city.

She ran a small summer sanitarium for women in South Orange, New Jersey and Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

[13] In 1864, Calista Vinton married a fellow missionary, Robert Morris Luther, an ordained minister trained at Princeton Theological Seminary.