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Australasian Mission

Dowdle, Absalom Porter

1819 June 1 – 1897 June 5

Ford, Thomas

1836 January 1 – 1863 February 28

Goulding, Daniel

1831 March 31 – 1905 August 1

Johnson, Thomas Smith

1818 January 1 – 1895 October 6

Snow, Zerubbabel Levi

1809 March 29 – 1888 September 27

Stewart, Andrew Jackson

1819 September 12 – 1911 December 7

Witbeck, John Crane

Alternate Name: Whitbeck, John Crane

1827 March 1 – 1907 September 26