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Swiss and German Mission

Grover, Joel

1849 March 11 – 1886 May 13

Horne, Joseph Smith

1842 May 14 – 1937 March 2

Maeser, Karl Gottfried

1828 January 16 – 1901 February 19

Schoenfeld, Edward

1832 March 8 – 1914 September 29

Snell, George H

1845 November 25 – 1896 January 18

West, Chauncey Walker, Jr.

1849 August 3 – 1894 October 6

Wilcken, Carl Heinrich, II

Alternate Name: Wilcken, Charles Henry, II

1831 October 6 – 1915 April 9