Guide to the Marjorie Faught Papers

Marjorie Faught was born in Philadelphia on July 8, 1907. She attended the Lankenau Hospital Training School for Nurses, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology and graduating in 1928 with her RN degree. In 1931 she earned a certificate in missions at Biblical Seminary in New York City. In 1932 she applied to the Women's General Missionary Society (UPCNA) for a missionary nursing post on the foreign field. The WGMS assigned her to the Ethiopia Mission and she sailed in 1933.

Faught joined the staff of the George Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa. In 1941, due to war conditions in Ethiopia, she was transferred to the Sialkot Mission, where she spent five years working in the Sialkot and Taxila Hospitals. In 1947 she returned to Ethiopia, this time to the Orr Memorial Hospital in Sayo, where she started a baby clinic in 1948. In 1957 Faught moved to Maji Station. She continued serving in the Ethiopia Mission until her retirement in 1972.