Diaries and correspondence of David Woosley, 1896-1940.

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Diaries and correspondence of David Woosley, 1896-1940.

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The small group of items includes two diaries kept by David Woosley while he was a Moravian missionary to the Cahuilla, Cupeño, and Luiseño Indians of southern California. Woosley would travel to the Pala Indian Reservation, the Pechanga Reservation, the Potrero Indian Reservation, and the Fort Yuma Reservation, as well as La Jolla, Rincon, Temecula, and Banning, California, to teach Sabbath School and conduct church services. In his diaries, Woosley includes details regarding his interaction with other missionaries, including William H. Weinland, his experiences with the Indians, their attitude towards Christianity, and their attendance at his church services. One of the diaries contains lists of children that attended Sabbath School at La Jolla and Pechanga from 1908-1911. The other items in the group are several letters, from 1940, written by various missionaries regarding the 50th anniversary of the Moravian's mission work in southern California; an incomplete booklet entitled "Proceedings of the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen" for the year 1914 (Woosley is author of one of the entries); and a photograph of the faculty and staff of the Moravian Theological Seminary taken in 1896.

10 items.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Moravian Theological Seminary

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Weinland, William H.

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Biography William Henry Weinland (1861-1930) was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He attended Moravian schools and was graduated from Moravian College and Theological Seminary in preparation for a life of professional ministry. In 1884 Weinland volunteered for an exploratory expedition into Alaska with Henry Hartmann, a Moravian missionary based in Canada, to determine an appropriate site for a mission. A settlement along the Kusko...

Society of the United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen

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Moravian Church

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The Moravians came to the United States in 1735 primarily to preach the gospel to the Indians. Although the Moravians had contacts with many Indian tribes, they did most of their work among the Delawares. They followed this tribe westward from Pennsylvania to Ohio, to Canada, to Indiana,and finally to Kansas. They also worked among the Mahicans in New York and Connecticut, and among the Cherokees in Georgia and Oklahoma. The work lasted until 1900, for a total of over 150 years. From...

Woosley, David.

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David Woosley attended the Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the 1890s and was later sent to Escondido, California as a Moravian missioinary. From the description of Diaries and correspondence of David Woosley, 1896-1940. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122386502 ...