Marjorie Cunningham diary, 1861-1863.

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Marjorie Cunningham diary, 1861-1863.

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Photocopies of a diary written by a teacher at the Hazelwood Mission, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, including during the U.S.-Dakota Conflict (1862). The photocopies constitute only a portion of Cunningham's diary. While working at the mission's boarding school, she writes about missionaries Alexander Huggins, Reverend Stephen R. Riggs and Dr. Thomas S. Williamson and Dakota member John Otherday, who offered assistance during the Dakota Conflict.

0.15 cu. ft. (1 folder in partial box).

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Cunningham, Marjorie

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Otherday, John, -1869

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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...

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

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