Alice Fish Moffett

Alice Fish first traveled to Korea in 1897, sponsored by her home church and the Benicia Presbyterial.^[6] She worked there as a Presbyterian medical missionary and Bible study teacher until her death in 1912, except for furloughs in 1902, 1906, 1908, and 1910.^[1][5] She reported about her efforts in Korea in Woman's Work, an American church periodical.^[7] She married a fellow American missionary, Samuel Austin Moffett, and assisted his work in Pyongyang, as founder of a theological seminary and first president of the Presbytery of Northern Korea.^[8] On their visits to the United States, both Moffetts spoke to church groups about their work.^[9][10]

Mary Alice Fish married Samuel Austin Moffett in 1899, in Seoul.^[8] She had two sons, James and Charles, who were young children when she died from dysentery soon after childbirth with a stillborn daughter in 1912, aged 42 years, in Pyongyang.^[1][3][11]

Moffett's widower remarried in 1915, to her first cousin, Lucia Hester Fish.^[5] Both of her sons became Presbyterian ministers, and Charles was a missionary in India for 14 years.^[12] The Moffett Korea Collection at the Princeton Theological Seminary includes correspondence involving Alice Fish Moffett.^[13]