Elizabeth T. Ayer papers, 1868-1892.

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Elizabeth T. Ayer papers, 1868-1892.

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Letters, biographical sketches, and other papers documenting the work of Presbyterian missionaries and teachers Frederick and Elizabeth Ayer, especially their work among Ojibwe Indians in northern Minnesota.

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Ayer, Frederick, 1803-1867.

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Taylor, Jonathan H.

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Ayer, Elizabeth Taylor, 1803-1898

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Elizabeth Taylor Ayer was born in Massachusetts in 1803. FRederick Ayer was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts that same year. Elizabeth went to Mackinac, Michigan in 1828 as a missionary teacher among Ojibwe Indians. She was there married to missionary Frederick Ayer in 1831 and the two traveled in 1832 to Sandy Lake, Minnesota, where they opened a school for the Ojibwe, the first such school opened in what later became Minnesota. They went on to open another such school at Pokegama, Minnesota,...