Henry Harris Jessup (1832-1910) was an American Presbyterian mi ssionary, author, and a founder of the American University of Beirut. He was born at Montrose, Pennsylvania, son of the jurist William ...

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George BARKER (1789-1861) son of Nathaniel BARKER of Wimbish near Saffrom Walden, Essex, was educated at Gosport Public School, became a Congregational Minister, joined the London Missionary Society an...

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Boston King A man who overcome great adversity This profile meant to Honor his contributions to Canada, and Sierra Leone What we know of Boston King: A Slave in Colonial America, Boston sided...

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Link to 1880 census (on Heritage Quest) [might not work for everyone]: Minister, Baptist Missionary

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Chalkley was probably the most influential Quaker minister in America during the eighteenth century. Thomas Chalkey is the Quaker Minister that converted many on Nantucket to Quakerism. CHALKLEY,...

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Lost his mother at age 7, his father at age 16. Served under Jonathan Haraden 1780-81 on privateer ships CATO and PICKERING. Graduated Dartmouth in 1785. Married JUNE 1786. Congregational minister in B...

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Arthur Buckminster Fuller (August 10, 1822-December 11, 1862) was a Unitarian clergyman who endeavored to give the Unitarian Church appeal to all social classes and championed the important liberal ref...

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from the Waco Times-Herald February 18, 1904 Gatesville, Tex., Feb. 10.-- Rev. P. B. Chandler died at his home near this place Monday evening. He came to Texas as a missionary in 1846 and has ever ...

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Lorenzo Lyons or "Makua Laiana" (1807 – 1886) was an early missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was a songwriter who composed "Hawaiʻi Aloha", which was inducted into the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fa...

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Justin Perkins (Holyoke, Massachusetts, March 5, 1805-Chicopee, Massachusetts, December 31, 1869) was an American Presbyterian missionary and linguist. He was the first citizen of the United States t...

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Arthur Henderson Smith (July 18, 1845 – August 31, 1932) (Chinese name 明恩溥 Ming Enpu) was a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions famous for spending 54 years as a mi...

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Miron Winslow (11 December 1789 - 22 October 1864) was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to American Ceylon Mission, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where he established a mi...

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William Thomas Lopp (June 21, 1864 – April 10, 1939), known better professionally as W. T. Lopp, and to his family as Tom Lopp, was a member of the Overland Relief Expedition in Alaska, then a U.S. t...

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Rev. David B. Lyman Was born in New Hartford, Ct., July 28, 1703, and was a son of a farmer, David Lyman, who was son of David of Bethlehem, who married Mary Gitteau, of Huguenot descent. He was gr...

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Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck, M.D. (August 13, 1818 – November 13, 1895) was an American missionary and translator of the Bible into Arabic. He was born at Kinderhook, NY, and educated at Jefferso...

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Eli Smith (1801–1857) was an American Protestant Missionary and scholar, born at Northford, Conn. He graduated from Yale in 1821 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1826. He worked in Malta unti...

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The early history of the Syria Mission needed a historian. Syria and Palestine were then a "terra incognita," and the American Church needed men of careful observation and facile pens, to report on w...

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Levi Parsons was the uncle and namesake of Levi Parsons Morton, 22nd Vice President of the USA. Parsons was born July 18, 1792, graduated at Middlebury, 1814, sailed November 3, 1819 with Pliny Fis...

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Jonas King (born in Hawley, Massachusetts, 29 July 1792; died in Athens, Greece, 22 May 1869) was a Congregational clergyman from the United States who worked as a missionary, mainly in Greece. His a...

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Charles McEwen Hyde (1832–1899) was a Congregationalist missionary who arrived in Hawaii in 1877. He was instrumental in establishing and supporting schools to educate and train the Hawaiian populati...

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Alice Gordon Gulick, who attended Mount Holyoke from 1863 to 1867, and taught philosophy at the College from 1868 to 1870, was part of this tradition. After marrying the Reverend William H. Gulick in...

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Samuel Nott (11 September 1788 – 1 June 1869) was one of the pioneers of American foreign missions. He was one of the first five foreign missionaries under American Board of Commissioners for Foreign...

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Harriet Newell was born Harriet Atwood at Haverhill, Massachusetts in Oct 1793. She was part of the first wave of Christian missionaries to go overseas from the United States. She died less than a ye...

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Samuel Newell (1784-1821) was one of the pioneers of American foreign missions. He was the missionary under American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to India and Ceylon, where he founded ...

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Gordon Hall (8 April 1784 - 20 March 1826) was one of the first two American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionaries to Bombay, then-headquarters of Bombay Presidency. He was instrum...

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John Thomas Gulick (1832–1923) was an American missionary and naturalist. He is credited with some of the first modern evolutionary study, starting with a collection of Hawaiian land snails. Life...

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Sidney Lewis Gulick (1860–1945) was an educator, author, and missionary who spent much of his life working to promote greater understanding and friendship between Japanese and American cultures. ...

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. Luther Halsey Gulick Sr. (1828–1891) was a missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii, and several other places. Although educated in medicine, in later life he became a newspaper editor while several of ...

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Peter Johnson Gulick (March 12, 1796 – December 8, 1877) was a missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii and Japan. He was patriarch of a family that also carried on the tradition of missionary work, and i...

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) Jump to: navigation, search William Goodell (1792–1867) was an American missionary. He was born at Templeton, Mass., educated at Phillips Academy (Andover), Dartmouth College, and Andover Theolog...

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The Rev. William Montague Ferry was a Presbyterian pastor. In the 1820's, he and his wife, Amanda White Ferry, ran the mission school at the community on Mackinac Island, Michigan, which included the...

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Cythia Farrar (b. April 20, 1795, Marlborough, New Hampshire, d. January 25, 1862, Ahmednagar, India) was one of the first unmarried American women sent overseas as a missionary. She lived and worked...

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Titus Coan (1801–1881) was an early American Christian Missionary to the Hawaiian Islands. Early life and family Titus Coan was born on February 1, 1801 in Killingworth, Connecticut, the son ...

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Thomas Davidson Christie (21 Jan 1843 - 25 May 1921) was a Civil War veteran and a missionary and educator in Turkey from 1877 to 1920. He was born in Sion Mills, County Tyrone, Ireland, the son of J...

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) Rev. Daniel Sabin Butrick, sometimes Buttrick, (August 25, 1789 – June 8, 1851) was commissioned in 1817 as a minister of the Word of God to the heathen, in the service of the American Board of Com...

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Elijah Coleman Bridgman (April 22, 1801 – November 2, 1861) was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign M...

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Dan Beach Bradley M.D. (July 18, 1804 – June 23, 1873) was an American Protestant missionary to Siam from 1835 until his death. He is credited with numerous firsts, including: bringing the first Thai...

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Adoniram Judson, Jr. (August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became the first Protestant mi...

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Samuel Chenery Damon (1815–1885) was a missionary to Hawaii, pastor of the Seamen's Bethel Church, chaplain of the Honolulu American Seamen's Friend Society and editor of the monthly newspaper The Fr...

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Samuel John Mills Jr. (April 12, 1783 – June 16, 1818) was an American missionary. Born at Torringford, Connecticut, his father was Congregational minister Samuel John Mills (1768–1833) and mother wa...

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Reverend Elihu Spencer was a patriot of the American Revolution for New Jersey with the rank of Chaplain. DAR Ancestor #: A106900 ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------...

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Samuel Kirkland (December 1, 1741 – February 28, 1808) was a Presbyterian minister and missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora peoples of present-day western New York State. Kirkland graduated ...

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Gideon Hawley (1727–1807) was a missionary to the Iroquois Indians in Massachusetts and on the Susquehanna River in New York. Biography He was born in the Stratfield section of Stratford, now...

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Harvey Rexford Hitchcock (March 13, 1800 – August 25, 1855) was an early Protestant missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii from the United States. With his three sons, he and his wife started a family t...

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Joseph Marion ("Jay") Tanner (March 26, 1859 – August 19, 1927) was an American educator and a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He has been described as "one of...

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) John Morrison Birch (May 8, 1918 – August 25, 1945) was an American military intelligence officer and a Baptist missionary in World War II who was shot by armed supporters of the Communist Party of...

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Pierre-Jean De Smet (30 January 1801 – 23 May 1873), also known as Pieter-Jan De Smet, was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), active in missionary work amon...

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Gerrit Parmele Judd (1803–1873) was an American physician and missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii who later became a trusted advisor and cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III. Life Judd was bor...

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Dr. Leonard Wilbur established a mission hospital in the province of northern China now known as Shanxi. Leonard, his wife (Jean Spaulding) and two children (Ruth and Lyman) survived invasions by Chine...

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David Coit Scudder Born on 27 October 1835 at Boston, Mass., the son of Charles and Sarah Lathrop (Coit) Scudder. He is not descended from John Scudder, but rather from a Scudder of the early days of t...

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Ida Belle Scudder M.D. was a radiologist and medical missionary born in 1900 and graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1925. Ida B. Scudder trained in radiology before moving to Vellore, India for mo...

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Dr. Marilyn Scudder born in 1939, Daughter of Lewis R. Scudder, Hope College ’31, graduated from Kodaikanal International School in 1956, Hope College in 1960, and received M.D. from the University of ...

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In 1920, Dr. Galen Fisher Scudder, a graduate of Princeton University and the Cornell Medical School and the son of Dr. Lewis R. Scudder arrived in India and was made Medical Superintendent of the Rani...

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Dr. Lewis R. Scudder (Hope College 1931) and his wife Dorothy B. Scudder, a doctor and nurse respectively, served as medical missionaries with the Arabian Mission (affiliated with the Reformed Church i...

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Ethel "Beth" Talcott Scudder was born May 17, 1904 in Kodaikanal, India to Ethel Talcott (Fisher) and Lewis Rousseau Scudder. The Scudders were missionaries of the Reformed Church of America (RCA). Bet...

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In the early 1890s in India, before Ida Scudder had even decided to study medicine, she was summoned one evening to attend several women in childbirth whose husbands refused to allow the presence of ...

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Henry Martyn Scudder (5 February 1822 – 4 June 1895) was a missionary under American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America to Jap...

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Rev. Dr. John Scudder, Sr. (September 3, 1793 - January 13, 1855), M.D., D.D., founded the first Western Medical Mission in Asia at Ceylon and later became the first American medical missionary in Indi...

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) Rev. James Blair was a Scottish born clergyman in the Church of England, best known as the founder and first president of the College of William and Mary. He was the uncle of U.S. Constitution sign...

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Henry Muhlenberg From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (an anglicanization of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg) (September 6, 1711 – October 7, 1787), was a German Lutheran pa...

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) From the History of Plainfield William studied for the ministry, graduated at Williams College in 1819, studied divinity at Andover, offered his services as a missionary, and was ordained at New ...

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Abner Wilcox (1808–1869) was a missionary teacher from New England to the Kingdom of Hawaii. Life Abner Wilcox was born April 19, 1808 in Harwinton, Connecticut. His father was Aaron Wilcox (1770...

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In June 1853 two ordained Hawaiian ministers, Rev. James K. Kekela and Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha, and their wives, and two deacons and their wives, were chosen by the Hawaiian Missionary Board to sail on ...

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Saint Marianne Cope, O.S.F., also known as the Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi, (23 January 1838 - 9 August 1918) is a Roman Catholic Saint, and was a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Syracuse, N...

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Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham II (August 16, 1831–October 25, 1908), was a Protestant Christian missionary to Hawaii and the Gilbert Islands. Born in Honolulu, Bingham was the sixth child o...

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Lorrin Andrews (1795–1868) was an early American missionary to Hawaii and judge. He opened the first post-secondary school for Hawaiians called Lahainaluna Seminary, prepared a Hawaiian dictionary an...

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Lucy Goodale Thurston (1795–1876) and her husband, Asa Thurston (1787–1868), were in the first company of American Christian Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. Lucy Goodale was born on October 2...

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Asa Thurston (1787–1868) and Lucy Goodale Thurston (1795–1876) were in the first company of American Christian Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands. Asa Thurston Born in Fitchburg, Massachuse...

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Jeremiah F. Evarts (February 3, 1781 – May 10, 1831) was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian r...

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) David Bacon (1771 – August 27, 1817) was an American missionary in the then unsettled territory of Michigan. He was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. He worked primarily with the Ottawa and Chippewa ...

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Name: Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp Pioneer Dutch missionary and protagonist of racial equality in South Africa Variations of the name: None Origin of the name: Dutch (Van der Kamp): topographic ...

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"My grandfather was an itinerant Episcopal Methodist minister. After preaching ineffectively against Mormonism in Utah, he ended up in Denver, where he established the first Methodist Episcopal church....

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Edwin Quayle "Ted" Cannon, Jr. (May 6, 1918 – April 6, 2005) was a Utah politician and businessman and was a prominent leader and missionary in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Ch...

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Janath Russell Cannon (October 28, 1918 – July 5, 2007) was a counselor to Barbara B. Smith in the general presidency of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Chu...

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) Richard Armstrong (1805–1860) was a missionary from Pennsylvania who arrived in Hawaii in 1832. Along with his wife Clarissa, he served in mission fields of the Marquesas Islands and in the Kingdom...

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Rev. John Cargill K.B. ca 1681 - 1732, emigrated 1708 - Minister of Southwark Parish, Surrey Co VA 1708 - 1732 Brief Biography John Cargill was a student of theology at the University of Glasgow, S...

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DR. ELIZUR AND ESTHER BUTLER MISSIONARIES TO THE CHEROKEE INDIANS Buried in the grave sixty feet south of this point is Esther Post Butler. Born in Connecticut on September 15, 1795, ...

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DR. ELIZUR AND ESTHER BUTLER MISSIONARIES TO THE CHEROKEE INDIANS Buried in the grave sixty feet south of this point is Esther Post Butler. Born in Connecticut on September 15, 1795, Post mar...

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Samuel Austin Worcester (19 January 1798 – 20 April 1859), was a missionary to the Cherokee, translator of the Bible, printer and defender of the Cherokee's sovereignty. He was a party in Worcester v...

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Luther Rice (1783–1836), was a Baptist minister who, after a thwarted mission to India, returned to American where he spent the remainder of his career raising funds for missions and advocating for t...

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Samuel Lieberkühn (1710-1777), the son of a goldsmith, studied theology at Halle and Jena, where he came into contact with Herrnhut (Bohemian and Moravian Brethren: II). Appointed as a missionary to th...

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Christian Jakobus Protten (1715–1769), son of a Togolese mother and a Danish father, studied theology in Copenhagen from 1727 to 1735 and then accompanied Nicolaus von Zinzendorf to Herrnhut. He return...

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Georg Schmidt (1709–1785), first Protestant missionary in South Africa. Schmidt, an educated butcher, joined the Herrnhut community (Bohemian and Moravian Brethren). While traveling as an itinerant pre...

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Hiram Bingham (1789–1869), was leader of the first group of Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian islands. Bingham was descended from Deacon Thomas Bingham who had come ...

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Christian David (1692–1751), a carpenter, as a Catholic stimulated by secret Protestants and Jews, he studied the Bible and converted to Protestantism in Berlin in 1715. Awakened in 1717 under the infl...

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Matthias Stach was a Moravian missionary in Greenland. He founded the settlements of New Herrnhut (modern Nuuk) (with Christian Stach, and Christian David in 1733) and Lichtenfels. Source Wikiped...

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David Nitschmann (1695–1772), the son of Georg Nitschmann (born 1662), an agriculturalist, was a carpenter; he emigrated to Herrnhut in 1724 and accompanied Nicolaus von Zinzendorf to Copenhagen in 173...

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Johann Leonhard Dober (1706-1766), a potter who was first in Herrnhut in 1725; in 1732 he went with D. Nitschmann as the first Moravian missionary (Bohemian and Moravian Brethren) to St. Thomas, West I...

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Hans Poulsen Egede (født 31. januar 1686 i Harstad, død 5. november 1758 i Stubbekøbing på Falster i Danmark), var en norsk prest av dansk avstamning, kjent som Grønlands apostel. Han var sønn ...

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Jason Lee arrived in the Oregon territory in 1834. Jason Lee (June 28, 1803 – March 12, 1845), an American missionary and pioneer, was born on a farm near Stanstead, Quebec. He was the first of the O...

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Modeste Demers arrived in the Oregon Territory in 1838. Modeste Demers (1809–1871) was a Roman Catholic Bishop and missionary in the Oregon Country. A native of Quebec, he traveled overland to the Pa...

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Narcissa Whitman arrived in the Oregon Terittory in 1836. Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (March 14, 1808 – November 29, 1847) was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the st...

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Came to Plymouth Mass about 1635. His ancestry traces back to Sir John Bourne, Secy of State to Queen Mary (1553-1558). This is known because of the "chervon party per pale" in the BOURNE Coat of Arms....

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Was so named to express his father's wish. (Isaiah 7:3 means - a remnant shall return (to carry on work)) Successfully carried on his father's work among the Indians. In the 17th century, missionar...

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websites about him: following bio from: Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875-September 4, 1965) was born into an Alsatian family which for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and ed...

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David Livingstone was born on the 19 March 1813, 8 miles south of Glasgow, one of seven children. As a young child he worked tirelessly on the cotton mills from 6am to 8pm and then studied hard at the ...

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William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was a British politician, a philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he beg...

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St. Patrick of Ireland Saint Patrick (Latin: Sanctus Patricius, Irish: Naomh Pádraig), born in Kilpatrick near Dumbarton in Scotland c. 387 – died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland 17 March, 460/1. He wa...

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Wikipedia: English Wikipedia: Deutsch Nikolaus Ludwig Reichsgraf von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf war von 1716 bis 1719 studierte an der Universität Wittenberg in Rechswissenschaft. Von 1721-1732 wa...

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