Belle Caldwell Culbertson

Belle Caldwell Culbertson (, Caldwell; February 23, 1857 – August 4, 1934) was an American author and philanthropist, active in social and religious reforms. She served as president, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbytery of Washington City; president, Woman's Inter-Denominational Missionary Union of the District of Columbia; and president, Washington Auxiliary Mission to Lepers. Other positions included: Trustee, Anti-Saloon League; Trustee, International Reform Bureau; vice-president, Mothers' Congress of D.C.; and member, Executive Board, Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.). Her siblings were: Theresa Caldwell, Harry B. Caldwell, George Newman Caldwell, Gertrude Caldwell, William Newman Caldwell, Harry B. Caldwell, and M. Belle Caldwell.

Culbertson was educated at the Female Seminary, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. they returned to the U.S.

She served as a correspondent for the religious press. She was also a translator of German fiction, notably, "Sunnyheart's Trial" (published December, 1910, in the Southern Observer) and "A Christmas Story for Children" (translated from the German of Emmy von Rhoden, which ran as a serial in the Lutheran Observer, 1910).

In religion, she was a member of the Wallace Memorial United Presbyterian Church.

Selected works Periodical literature "The Smallest Republic in the World", 1906 "Work for the Slavic Immigrants in the Synod of Baltimore", 1906 "The Schauffler Missionary Training School", 1907 "The Open Door", 1907 "The Pressing Need that the Gospel be Given to the Jews in the Yiddish Tongue", 1908

Translations "Sunnyheart's Trial" (1910) "A Christmas Story for Children" (1910)