Minnesota files, 1847-1882 [microform].

Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Wright, Sela Goodrich, 1816-1906.

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Sela Wright was born in Oberlin, Ohio (July 21, 1816), the son of John and Betsy (Goodrich) Wright, and was educated at Medina Academy and Oberlin College (1841). He joined the newly organized Western Evangelical Missionary Society which later merged with the Union Missionary Society of New York and became the American Missionary Association. He was ordained as a Congregational clergyman at the Red Lake Mission, Minnesota (1843) and served there as a missionary to the Ojibwe Indian band until 18...

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...

Spees, Francis.

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Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873

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Merchant and antislavery leader. From the description of The papers of Lewis Tappan [microform], 1809-1903. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852969 Abolitionist from New York State; assisted the Amistad slaves; among the founders of the American Missionary Association in 1846, which began more than 100 anti-slavery Congregational churches throughout the Midwest, and after the American Civil War, founded numerous schools and colleges to aid in the educatio...

Cushman, Charles Metcalf, 1829-1906.

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Bardwell, John P., [ca.1801]-1871.

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Cravath, E. M.

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Whipple, George, 1805-1876

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American Missionary Association

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Known chiefly for its educational work among African Americans, the American Missionary Association also worked with other ethnic groups. From the description of American Missionary Association records, 1820's-1870's (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 668992371 ...

Jenkins, Jenkin, 1803-1886

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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...

Lewis, William

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Epithet: MD, of Kingston-onThames British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000361.0x000214 Epithet: Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x00031b Epithet: of Selby British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000361.0x00021d William Lewis was born in Pro...

Spencer, David Bradley

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