Sister Emma Francis (1875-1945) opened work at Ebenezer Home for Girls, at Frederickstad, Virgin Islands, in 1908. In 1922 she was received by the ULCA Philadelphia Motherhouse, becoming the first African-American deaconess. She helped organize Transfiguration Lutheran Church, New York City, and was matron of the Queen Louise Home, 1927-1945.

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