Ephraim Roberts papers circa 1775-1968

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College. In the 19th century it was the largest and most important of American missionary organizations and consisted of participants from Protestant Reformed traditions such as Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and German Reformed churches. Before 1870, the ABCFM consisted of Protestants of several denominati...

Farrington family

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Doane, Edward P.

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Green, Jonathan S. (Jonathan Smith), 1796-1878

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Wetmore, C. H. (Charles Hinckley), 1820-1898

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Roberts, Myra Farrington, 1835-1912

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Lyman, David Belden, 1803-1884

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Roberts family

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Gulick, L. L. (Louisa Lewis), 1830-1894

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Dole, Charlotte Close Knapp, 1813-1874

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Bond, Elias

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Damon, Samuel Chenery, 1815-1885

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Samuel Chenery Domon was editor of "The Friend," a serial devoted to temperance and mariners, from 1845 to 1884. From the guide to the Excerpt from our log-book, circa 1848-1849, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Samuel Chenery Damon (1815-1885) graduated from Amherst College in 1836 and Princeton Seminary in 1838. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1841 and served as a missionary to Hawaii for the American Seamen's Friend Society from 1841 until hi...

Pierson, Nancy A.

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Doane, Sarah Wilbur

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Halsey, Luther, 1794-1880

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Sturges, A. A.

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Snow, B. G. (Benjamin G.)

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Benjamin Galen Snow (1817-1880) was born in Brewer, Me., and graduated from Bowdoin College and later Bangor Theological Seminary. Snow was ordained and began missionary work for the American Baptist Council of Foreign Missions (A.B.C.F.M). He was first stationed at Kusaie, Micronesia, and then on Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands. Snow remained in the South Pacific until 1877, with the exception of a three-year hiatus. From the description of Benjamin Galen Snow papers, 1866 [manuscript]...

Lyman, Sarah Joiner, 1805-1885

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Coan, Titus, 1801-1882

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Presbyterian missionary to Hawaii. Born in Killington, Connecticut, studied at the Auburn Theological Seminary, N.Y., and ordained in 1833. Sent to Patagonia as a missionary from 1833-34. Married Fidelia Church (1810-1872) upon his return to the United States in 1834. Went to Hawaii in 1835 where he lived and worked the rest of his life. From the description of Papers, 1830-1872. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58660720 Presbyterian clergyman and ...

Farrington, Daniel, fl. 1856-

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Bingham, Hiram, 1789-1869

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Roberts, Ephraim Peter, 1825-1893.

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Ephraim Peter Roberts was born at Danbury, Vermont, October 23, 1825. After completing studies at Williams College in 1854, he entered Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine, and was ordained by the Congregational Church at Bangor on July 28, 1857. On Septermber 8, 1857, he married Myra Holman Farrington of Holden, Maine, born there September 22, 1835. Both having been certified as missionaries by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, they sailed from Boston on Oct...