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Name

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Title

Southern States Mission

Argyle, Joseph

1818 September 12 – 1905 September 26

Barnett, Henry Westlake

1831 November 17 – 1917 November 15

Bartholomew, Henry Dexter

1852 May 9 – 1928 February 3

Beck, Jonas Nuttall

1838 June 20 – 1907 June 22

Belnap, Hyrum

1858 March 24 – 1938 September 18

Benson, Frank Andrus

1853 October 13 – 1937 May 5

Berrett, Robert Griffen, Jr.

1831 June 23 – 1890 May 7

Bills, Gordon Silas

1854 March 18 – 1932 March 20

Bliss, Charles Henry

1860 January 9 – 1907 July 24

Butler, George Harvey

1858 December 23 – 1936 August 18

Butterfield, Samuel

1855 February 27 – 1930 October 19

Carver, George Henry

1854 November 11 – 1922 June 21

Clawson, Rudger

1857 March 12 – 1943 June 21

Cowley, Matthias Foss

1858 August 25 – 1940 June 16

Crawford, George McIntosh Troup

1843 November 12 – 1906 April 27

Crowley, Squire G

1852 February 20 – 1920 January 20

Dunbar, David Cameron

1858 February 28 – 1938 November 19

Edlefsen, Edlef Backsenblohm

1860 April 21 – 1931 October 2

Farr, Thomas

1854 March 16 – 1936 September 28

Fife, William Wilson

1857 August 16 – 1897 August 31

Garn, Martin Daniel

1858 November 25 – 1920 October 5

Gibson, John William

1856 November 1 – 1948 March 8

Hansen, Andrew Janus

1852 August 6 – 1932 November 4

Hardy, Leonard G

1852 June 21 – 1938 June 19

Harker, Benjamin

1851 September 18 – 1884 August 10