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Title

Northern States Mission

Alder, Reuel Johnson

1886 March 17 – 1958 September 5

Alleman, John William

1885 January 26 – 1936 October 6

Alston, Joseph

1861 September 22 – 1924 December 31

Andersen, George Andrew

1882 August 29 – 1949 December 16

Andersen, James Alfred

1885 February 28 – 1945 April 10

Anderson, Abraham

1883 September 8 – 1954 June 5

Anderson, John Sven

1874 February 13 – 1963 September 22

Anderson, Joseph Morgan

1872 May 1 – 1927 February 15

Armstrong, James Arthur

1883 April 13 – 1969 January 27

Atwood, Walter Simeon

1882 January 2 – 1968 April 7

Baird, Wilford

1882 October 17 – 1966 August 3

Ballantyne, Zachariah Ferrin

1884 August 14 – 1970 July 15

Banks, John Elmer

1882 September 8 – 1921 April 7

Bartlett, Ashley

1880 April 19 – 1979 December 10

Beal, David Nelson

1863 November 15 – 1946 June 18

Beazer, William Ephraim

1879 February 11 – 1952 April 7

Beecher, Frank

1885 December 10 – 1919 January 1

Belnap, Francis E

1880 June 20 – 1966 January 4

Bennion, Laura

1872 December 1 – 1948 December 13

Benson, Frank Taft

1883 April 23 – 1923 February 19

Benson, Marcus Joseph

1865 April 23 – 1949 June 13

Benson, Yeppa

1866 April 1 – 1929 November 27

Bergener, Otto August Emil

1857 October 1 – 1932 September 28

Biesinger, George Leonard

1879 May 8 – 1960 May 20

Bigelow, Milton Eugene

1879 February 2 – 1964 March 18