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Sources

Title

British Mission

Abel, Thomas Ammon

1889 March 1 – 1957 March 7

Adams, Edsel Hyrum

1889 March 14 – 1956 November 21

Adams, Orval Webster

1884 April 10 – 1968 May 18

Adamson, James Murray

1887 June 13 – 1915 October 29

Adamson, John

1849 May 22 – 1915 October 29

Affleck, Robert Charles

1893 January 10 – 1918 April 8

Allen, George

1891 February 20 – 1930 September 2

Allen, James Jenkins

1886 October 8 – 1954 December 31

Allen, Louis Lowe

1885 October 17 – 1943 November 26

Allen, Wilford Ehlers

1889 September 15 – 1951 November 10

Allington, Walter Henry

1873 December 20 – 1964 October 18

Anderson, Alexander

1887 June 18 – 1918 September 29

Anderson, George Edward

1860 October 28 – 1928 May 9

Anderson, Niels James

1884 June 20 – 1958 June 12

Anderson, Reuben Christian

1892 December 17 – 1985 March 3

Anderson, Thomas

1888 June 24 – 1963 October 16

Anderson, Virgil Ballantyne

1893 October 8 – 1973 January 24

Andrews, William James

1877 May 26 – 1936 March 9

Archibald, Allen Hendry

1883 September 27 – 1950 July 22

Ashdown, Franklin Dee

1887 October 3 – 1983 May 17

Athay, Henry Elzo

1890 April 18 – 1941 March 21

Atkin, Joseph Thompson, Jr.

1892 November 20 – 1963 August 3

Atkin, William, Jr.

1893 November 22 – 1973 April 15

Bagnall, Joseph Frobisher

1870 November 22 – 1942 May 10

Bair, Henry Eugene

1889 September 1 – 1969 October 7