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Name

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Title

Early Church Mission: North America Mission

Alger, John

1820 November 5 – 1897 February 4

Deitrich, Delormay

1837 November 19 – 1888 March 14

Doxey, Alma Thomas

1854 July 14 – 1932 February 29

Ellwood, Robert Snodin

1826 December 7 – 1912 September 1

Farnsworth, Alonzo Lafayette

1841 October 22 – 1931 May 16

Gardner, Neil

1841 June 24 – 1906 July 6

Hatch, Lorenzo

1854 September 17 – 1926 February 13

Hintze, Ferdinand Friis

1854 May 13 – 1928 March 9

Huff, James Henry, Sr.

1837 July 24 – 1903 October 16

Losee, Abraham

1814 September 16 – 1887 October 25

Malin, James Elijah

1839 September 10 – 1909 October 26

McNeil, John Corlett

1823 January 10 – 1909 August 20

Merkley, Christopher

1808 December 18 – 1893 May 2

Stewart, James Zebulon

1844 October 31 – 1931 June 16

Stokes, William

1821 June 15 – 1878 December 31

Tenney, Ammon Meshach

1844 November 16 – 1925 October 28

Young, Franklin Wheeler

1839 February 17 – 1911 January 22