The daughter of Alexandre Nicolas Odin, municipal secretary, and Jeanne Marie Gachet, she was born
Henriette Odin in
Montagny in the
canton of
Vaud and moved to
Lausanne with her parents three years later. In 1835, she left for Canada with
Louis Roussy. Opposed by the
Catholic clergy in Quebec, she settled in Grande-Ligne, where the clergy had less influence. During the
Lower Canada Rebellion, the patriotes viewed the missionaries as sympathetic to their English opponents and Feller and her converts fled to the United States. Following the Rebellion, Feller found that she was better received in Grande-Ligne; her group also gained some sympathy in the United States which helped them raise funds in support of the mission. In 1836, she founded with Louis Roussy the
Institut Feller for the training of pastors. In 1839, she chose to affiliate with the Foreign Evangelical Society of New York in the United States. In 1847, she was
baptized by immersion with her husband and became a member of the Canadian
Baptist Missionary Society. Feller came down with
pneumonia in 1855 which led her to rest in the southern United States and later Switzerland without much improvement. In 1865, she became paralyzed and was confined to her room. She died in Grande-Ligne, Quebec at the age of 67. == References ==