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Henry H. Riggs

Rev. Riggs was born in Sivas in 1875 to a family of missionaries stationed in the Ottoman Empire. He grew up in the area, traveling to the United States to attend Carleton College in Minnesota and Auburn Seminary. He was president of Euphrates College in Harpoot from 1903 to 1910. After a break, he resumed missionary work in Harpoot in 1912, where he stayed until 1917. He worked as a teacher and evangelist among Armenian refugees in Beirut from 1923 to 1940. Rev. Riggs died in Jerusalem in 1943.

Henry Morgenthau

Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856–1946) was a prominent German-born American lawyer, businessman, and diplomat best known for his role as the United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Serving in Constantinople from 1913 to 1916, he became one of the most critical eyewitnesses to the Armenian Genocide, aggressively sound the alarm to the U.S. State Department and organizing vital humanitarian relief through the Near East Relief foundation. His historic warnings and detailed accounts of the state-sponsored atrocities were later published in his landmark memoir, Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story (1918), establishing him as a pioneering figure in the history of international human rights advocacy.