Fidelia Fisk

She founded the Fiske Seminary boarding school in Urmia in West Azerbaijan Province, Qajar Iran.

[2] In 1843, she resigned her post at Mount Holyoke Seminary and went to Qajar Iran as a missionary among the Christian Assyrians (who were once called "Nestorians" by Americans during the late 18th century, but is now an outdated term).

[2] The Assyrian Church of the East of Urmia and Bishop Mar Yohannan, wanted literacy and education for women and Fisk had a leadership role in this goal.

[4] Fisk had labored in Iran for fifteen years, much of the time as teacher in a female seminary, she also served as a nurse and extended social support for some of her students.

At the time of her death, she was engaged in writing Recollections of Mary Lyon (Boston, 1866).

Students at Fiske Seminary in Urmia, from a 1909 publication.