Edith Parker Johnson was born in Charlestown Mass, Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Basar University. She completed a short-term midwifery course at Sloane Maternal and Child Hospital in New York and learned disinfection, obstetrics, neonatal care, maternal care, and patient bed making.

Parker was appointed a Korean missionary with her husband Johnson and arrived in Daegu on December 25, 1897. And she worked at Jejungwon and served with her husband by taking care of patients. In particular, she took the lead in preventing malaria by selling "Quinine," a special drug for malaria, called "Geumgye-rap," with missionary Seo Ja-myung, and also ran an early sewing class to teach girls. With this opportunity, she launched Shinmyeong Girls' Primary School, the first women's elementary school in Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do, with missionary Marda Scott Bruen.

Quinine called Geumgye-rap

Children who lived in Daegu, 1911

She married Johnson and had four children, and on November 15, 1912, she resigned from all missionary work due to her husband's poor health and returned to the United States. She lived with her husband in Los Angeles, California, and was called by God in 1958.