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Early Church Mission: North America Mission

Benson, Jerome Messenger

1810 November 5 – 1877 April 17

Clark, Hiram

1795 September 22 – 1853 December 27

Gould, Samuel

1786 August 15 – 1869 December 30

Martindale, William Addington

1814 June 11 – 1873 February 16

McGaw, James

1824 August 27 – 1872 January 15

Stoddard, Lyman

1795 February 8 – 1854 December 12

Thomas, Preston

1814 February 15 – 1877 July 11

Young, Joseph

1797 April 7 – 1881 July 16