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Eastern States Mission

Andrus, Milo

1814 March 6 – 1893 June 19

Banks, John

1806 February 6 – 1862 June 15

Lamb, Abel

1801 March 9 – 1874 August 14

Lewis, Philip Bessom, Sr.

1804 January 16 – 1877 November 13

Peck, Martin Horton

1806 May 27 – 1884 June 17

Pratt, Orson

Birth Name: Pratt, Orson, Sr.

1811 September 19 – 1881 October 3

Savery, Samuel

1814 November 8 – 1898 September 24

Spencer, Orson

1802 March 14 – 1855 October 15

Trost, William

Alternate Name: Frost, William

1801 July 28 – 1887 April 30