Correspondence, 1827-1878.

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...

Greene, David, 1797?-1866

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Secretary, American Board of Missions, Boston, Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1837-1843. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852580 ...

Williamson, John Poage, 1835-1917

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John Poage Williamson (1835-1917); Missionary to the Dakota Indians for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. from 1860 to 1898, preaching in their native language, which he had learned as a child. He worked at many sites, including: the Lower Sioux Agency, Minn., 1860-1862; Fort Snelling, 1862-1863; Crow Creek, S.D., 1863-1866; Santee Agency, Neb., 1866-1869; and the Yankton Agency, S.D., 1869-1898. Williamson also acted as the Special U.S. Agent for the Flandreau Indians, 1873-1878. In 1871, h...

Williamson, Thomas S. (Thomas Smith), 1800-1879

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Potter, Joshua

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Hopkins, Robert, 1816-1851.

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Stevens, Jedediah Dwight, 1798-1876?

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Treat, Selah Burr, 1804-1877

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Aiton, John Felix, 1817-1892.

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Hall, Sherman, 1800-1879

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Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891

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American pioneer; first Governor of Minnesota. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to William L. Marcy, 1853 Mar. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664016 Fur trader; soldier; politician; Governor of Minnesota, 1850-1860. From the description of Papers, 1815-1830. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17998041 Henry Sibley was a general in the Confederate Army. From the de...

Hancock, J. W. 1816-1907.

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Boutwell, William Thurston, 1803-1890

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Missionary. From the description of William Thurston Boutwell diary, 1832. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423094 ...

Ayer, Frederick, 1803-1867.

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Pond, Gideon H. (Gideon Hollister), 1810-1878

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Pond, Samuel W. 1808-1891.

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Huggins, Alexander G., 1802-1866

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Alexander Huggins and Lydia Pettijohn were married in Ohio in 1832. They came to Minnesota in 1835 under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) of the Presbyterian Church and served as missionary assistants under Thomas S. Williamson at the Dakota Indian missions at Lac qui Parle (1835-1846) and Traverse des Sioux (1846-1852). In January 1852, Alexander Huggins apparently conveyed to townsite developers part of the land that was ...

Pettijohn, Jonas, b. 1813.

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Ely, Edmund Franklin, 1809-1882

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Edmund Franklin Ely was born in Wilbraham Massachusetts on August 3, 1809. He was a choir director, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Albany, New York, and began his ministerial studies (1828). He was appointed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1832 and left New York, arriving in La Pointe, Wisconsin the following year. From that time until 1849 he served Ojibwe missions in Fond du Lac, Pokegama, and Sandy Lake, Minnesota. His diaries indicate that he was in a...

Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883

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Stephen Return Riggs, a Presebyterian missionary, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, on March 23, 1812, the son of Stephen and Anne (Baird) Riggs. He studied at Jefferson College and the Western Theological Seminary in 1833 and 1834, and he was licensed to preach in 1836. He came to what is now Minnesota under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1837, settling first at Lake Harriet (in what is now Minneapolis). Later he was sent to th...

Boutwell, Hester Crooks, 1817-1853

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Adams, Moses N. (Moses Newton), 1822-1902

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Moses N. Adams was born on February 14, 1822 in Rockville, Adams County, Ohio, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Baird Adams. Following a common school education, he attended Ripley (Ohio) College (ca. 1839-1845) and the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio (1845-1848). He received his ministerial license on May 5, 1847 and was ordained by the Cincinnati Presbytery on June 14, 1848. He was then appointed as an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) missi...

Williamson, Jane Smith, 1803.

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