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Eastern States Mission

Bennion, Samuel Roberts

1842 November 10 – 1915 November 16

Bitton, John Evington

1830 April 12 – 1905 January 15

Boyer, Philip Henry

1839 November 4 – 1905 June 6

Brewerton, Charles

1831 November 10 – 1908 October 22

Brinton, Caleb Dilworth

1848 November 21 – 1936 February 21

Campbell, Francis Eugene

1849 May 6 – 1922 September 19

Coltrin, Zebedee

1851 June 15 – 1918 April 3

Cook, John

1822 November 29 – 1909 September 25

Cummings, Benjamin Franklin, Jr.

1855 August 22 – 1918 March 11

Cummings, Marlow L

1855 May 5 – 1934 May 12

Druce, John

1818 June 18 – 1897 October 7

Ford, John, Jr.

1843 August 27 – 1928 October 21

Groesbeck, John Amberson

1849 July 14 – 1904 October 10

Grow, Henry

1817 October 1 – 1891 November 4

Hall, James Edward

1850 October 10 – 1928 March 31

Harris, Martin Henderson

1820 September 29 – 1889 February 14

Jackson, William Whalley

1831 September 20 – 1895 November 3

Jenne, William Henry

1849 April 22 – 1927 October 9

Jones, Nathaniel Vary, Jr.

1850 November 9 – 1921 April 18

Kimball, Heber Parley

1835 June 1 – 1885 February 8

McAllister, John Daniel Handley

1851 January 9 – 1908 October 28

Mendenhall, William

1815 April 8 – 1906 June 3

Midgley, John George

1857 December 20 – 1930 November 15

Morton, Thomas Fincher Harry

1832 September 27 – 1899 April 8

Musser, Amos Milton

1830 May 20 – 1909 September 24