Thomas H. Roberts circular letters and photograph, 1885-1887.

Webb, Edward, 1819-1898

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kh323k (person)

Lincoln University, Pa.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c57r2m (corporateBody)

Ashmun Institute was founded in 1854 by John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, with the purpose of preparing freedmen to christianize Africa; named after Jehudi Ashmun, the first governor of Liberia, it was the first college established in the U.S. to have as its original purpose the higher education of youth of African descent; interracial and international; renamed Lincoln University in 1866, becoming the first educational institution named for the assassinated president; first recorded ...

Roberts, Thomas H., 1861-1889

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n90jbx (person)

Thomas H. Roberts, an ordained missionary with the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., engaged in evangelistic work in Liberia (1885-1889). Roberts, a native of the Vey tribe in Liberia, was sent to Lincoln University (Pa.) by the Presbytery of West Africa in 1873. He remained at Lincoln until 1885, when he was ordained a minister of the PCUSA and the BFM appointed him to the Liberia Mission. After serving at Brewerville, Roberts was sent ...

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Liberia Mission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hb4fg3 (corporateBody)

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xm267s (corporateBody)

The first Presbyterian missionaries to Japan arrived in Yokohama in 1859. Despite hostility experienced by the missionaries throughout the closing decades of the 19th century, mission activities continued to expand. After 1906, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church transferred its work in Japan to the PCUSA Board of Foreign Missions. The mission's work was primarily educational and evangelistic. Because of the extensive system of Japanese hospitals and primary schools, the Board made no effort to c...