[Diary], [1866-1868].

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[Diary], [1866-1868].

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Ms. diary kept by Harriet B. Clark Caswell Broad during 1866-1868, containing personal and professional accounts of her life as a missionary to the Seneca Nation on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in Cattaraugus, N.Y.

[346] p., bound ; 21 x 18 cm.

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Caswell, Harriet S., 1834-

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Christian missionary and teacher to the Seneca Indians in the 1850s. Born in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, she later became a teacher and missionary to the Seneca Indians of the Cattaraugus Reservation in western New York. She married, but was soon widowed. When she remarried, she settled around Newfane, Vermont. Involved in missions on a national scale, Caswell became editor of the Home Missionary and National Secretary of the Bureau of Women's Work, and authored Our life ...