Snow, Lydia Vose Buck, 1820-1887
Biographical notes:
Congregational missionary; wife of Rev. Benjamin Galen Snow; sailed from Boston to become missionaries of American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Micronesia; arrived in Hawaii Mar. 1852; left Honolulu on schooner Caroline in 1852 with fellow missionaries such as Luther Halsey Gulick and his wife Louisa Mitchell Lewis Gulick. The Snows started a mission on the Micronesian island of Kosrae (earlier known as Kusai, Kusaie, or Strong's Island) and were stationed at Ponape (later name: Pohnpei) from 1852-ca. 1877; following her husband's death in 1880, Snow resumed her missionary work in Kosrae; because of poor health, returned to U.S. in 1882.
From the description of Papers, 1851-[198-]. (American Congregational Association). WorldCat record id: 70978972
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Subjects:
- Congregational churches
- Missions, American
Occupations:
- Missionaries
- Women missionaries
Places:
- Hawaii (as recorded)
- Robbinston (Me.) (as recorded)
- Micronesia--Pohnpei (as recorded)
- Micronesia--Kosrae (as recorded)
- Kosrae (Micronesia) (as recorded)
- Honolulu (Hawaii) (as recorded)
- Pohnpei (Micronesia) (as recorded)
- Micronesia (as recorded)
