Julia Lore McGrew

Julia Lore McGrew (1849–1942) was an American physician and medical missionary in India. Affiliated with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, she was, in 1876, the first to provide medical missionary services in Moradabad.

Early life and education Anna Julia Lore was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 17, 1849. Her father, Dallas Dayton Lore, D.D. (1815–1875), joined the Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1837. In 1840, he was nominated as a missionary to Africa, but circumstances prevented his entering upon the work. In 1847, he went as a missionary to Buenos Aires, where, two years after, Julia was born. McGrew's mother, Rebecca (née, Toy) (1819–1903), accompanied her husband to Buenos Aires, and here they remained seven years. with the first class that included women. she offered herself to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. At the executive committee held in Philadelphia in the spring of 1874, she was accepted as medical missionary for India, sent out by the New York Branch. whom she had met in the U.S. before leaving for India, and who was afterward sent out as a missionary by the parent Board. After marriage, she continued her medical missionary work. and extending her work to neighboring villages which she visited, She then spent three years in Cawnpore (1880–1883). and was buried at Kingwood, West Virginia.

Selected works "Concerning Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law", The Female missionary intelligencer, 1878 "The Goddess Kali and Her Worshipers", The Heathen Woman's Friend, 1888. "Trees in Legend and History", Woman's Missionary Friend, 1913