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Harrington, Charlotte Geddie
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1840-1906
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Charlotte Geddie Harrington (1840-1906) was a Presbyterian church worker and editor. She was born in 1840 in Prince Edward Island. Her parents were John Geddie and Charlotte Lenora Harrington MacDonald. She married William Harris Harrington on Sept. 21 1865, and they had two daughters and a son. She died in Halifax on March 7 ,1906.
Charlotte Geddie Harrington's early life involved accompanying her parents to the New Hebrides (Aneityum) where the family moved to pursue missionary work. She was sent to England for education for eight years, after which she returned to the New Hebrides and assisted her parents' missionary work in 1856. She returned to Halifax in 1859, where she settled to marry and raise a family.
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Bonnie Huskins, “Geddie, Charlotte Anne,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 13, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed April 2, 2015, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/geddie_charlotte_anne_13E.html.