Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Kalopothakes, Martha Hooper Blackler

KALOPOTHAKES, Martha Hooper Blackler, missionary, b. in Marblehead, Mass., 1 June, 1830; d. in Athens, Greece, 16 Dec., 1871. She became interested in missions, and in 1858 married M. D. Kalopothakes, who studied medicine and theology in New York city. He returned to Greece, his native land, as a Protestant missionary, accompanied by his wife, who acquired the Greek language, and assisted him in editing a weekly paper. She labored as a missionary, and exercised a wide influence among the Greek women. During the last three years of her life she translated books from the English, and edited a juvenile paper that was published in Greek.