Alonzo Barnard papers, undated, 1858-1899.

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Alonzo Barnard papers, undated, 1858-1899.

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Photocopies of an undated reminiscence, a post card (1895), and three letters (1858, 1895, 1899) of an early (1840s-1850s) Presbyterian missionary to the Ojibwe Indians in what is now northern Minnesota and North Dakota.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 7317510

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Ayer, Frederick, 1803-1867.

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Schell, J. P. (James Peery), 1845-1932

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Clergyman. From the description of Papers of James Peery Schell, 1907-1929. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233110117 James Peery Schell was born on January 29, 1845, in Iowa City, Iowa. He married Margaret Melissa Plumer on January 5, 1875, in Emsworth, Pennsylvania. He devoted his life to the Lord's service, traveling all over the western United States, and even as far as Europe, preaching and recording his experiences. He kept daily journals of his wor...

Barnard, Alonzo, 1817-1905.

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Alonzo Barnard was born in Peru, Bennington County, Vermont on June 2, 1817. He moved with his family to Ohio and was educated at Oberlin College. Recruited at Oberlin by Presbyterian clergyman Frederick Ayer for missionary work among the Ojibwe, Barnard was one of the founders of the "Oberlin" mission at Red Lake (1843). Several years later (in 1846), following a brief tenure at the Leech Lake mission, he started a mission at Cass Lake, where he was ordained (in 1847) by Ayer. In 1...