Corinna Shattuck

Corinna Shattuck (April 21, 1848 – May 22, 1910) was an American educator and missionary in Turkey, recognized for heroism at Urfa in 1895–1896.

[6] She described her work with Armenian refugees at Urfa in a letter published in The Washington Post in 1896: "We are now dispensing coffee, 800 pounds having been given to us by the Red Cross people.

We are also giving out shoes for the widows and orphans, arranging for their rents, and setting up the different tradesmen in work," she wrote.

[8][9] In January 1896, she helped to prevent a massacre of Armenian women and children in her care at Urfa,[10] by standing in front of her church and school (some versions of the story have her holding an American flag in one hand) and challenging the Turkish forces to attack her personally.

[12] Shattuck returned to the United States in ill health in 1910,[13] and died soon after from tuberculosis, at Massachusetts General Hospital, aged 62 years.