Burnham, Mary D.

Mary D. Burnham of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the founder and first president (ca. 1872-1880) of the Dakota League of Massachusetts, a branch of the Women's Auxiliary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church (later, the Women's Department of the Board of Missions). The League was founded to provide financial support, clothing, and supplies to American Indians in the Western United States through Episcopal missionaries, and to distribute pamphlets regarding missionary work to members of affiliated Church parishes.

From the description of Mary D. Burnham papers relating to the Dakota League, 1866-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702160584

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