Tahitian Mission

Date Formed
1844 April 30
Location Formed
Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
Organization Type
Ecclesiastical
Organization Area
Pacific
Alternate Names
Society Islands Mission
Organization Participants in Database
242

Organized as the Society Islands Mission May 1844. Missionary work ceased by 1852 when Addison Pratt departed the islands. 

In January 1892 missionaries from the Samoan Mission, Joseph W. Damron and William A. Seegmiller, arrived in Tahiti. The Society Islands Mission was reorganized later that year. In 1907 it was renamed the Tahitian Mission.

By 1930 the mission consisted of four districts: Tahiti, Tubuai, Upper Tuamotu, and Lower Tuamotu. 

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Noah Rogers Set Apart as Mission President

1843 May 23 – 1845 July 8

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Formed in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

1844 April 30

Addison Pratt Called as Mission President

1845 July 8 – 1847 March 28

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Benjamin Franklin Grouard Called as Mission President

1847 March 28 – 1850 July 7

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Addison Pratt Departed from Home as Mission President

1849 October 9 – 1852 May 16

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James Stephens Brown Set Apart as Mission President

1892 April 8 – 1893 July 8

Joseph Warren Damron, Jr. Called as Mission President

1893 July 8 – 1895 May 11

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Frank Atkinson Cutler Called as Mission President

1895 April 4 – 1896 September 14

Daniel Thomas Miller Set Apart as Mission President

1896 June 18 – 1899 July 12

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William Henry Chamberlin, Jr. Called as Mission President

1899 July 8 – 1900 March 1

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Edward Spackman Hall Called as Mission President

1903 February 28 – 1907 August 21

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Frank Atkinson Cutler Set Apart as Mission President

1907 July 30 – 1908 September 27

Franklin Junius Fullmer Set Apart as Mission President

1911 September 6 – 1914 June 27

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Ira Hyer Called as Mission President

1914 June 27 – 1915 April 9

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Ernest Crabtree Rossiter Set Apart as Mission President

1915 February 16 – 1919 July 17

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Leonidas Hamlin Kennard, Jr. Set Apart as Mission President

1920 January 9 – 1922 August 22

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Ole Bertrand Peterson Set Apart as Mission President

1922 June 30 – 1925 May 5

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Herbert Brown Foulger Called as Mission President

1925 May 5 – 1926 April 7

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Alma Gardner Burton Set Apart as Mission President

1926 May 12 – 1929 May 28

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George William Burbidge Set Apart as Mission President

1929 April 8 – 1933 July 19

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Le Roy Mallory Set Apart as Mission President

1933 June 28 – 1937 February 25

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Thomas Lambert Woodbury Set Apart as Mission President

1936 December 10 – 1938 January 26

Kenneth Richards Stevens, Sr. Arrived in the Field as Mission President

1938 July 24 – 1940 August 7

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Eugene Mousley Cannon Departed from Home as Mission President

1940 July 17 – December 16

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Ernest Crabtree Rossiter Set Apart as Mission President

1941 May 15 – 1945 January 3

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Edgar Bentley Mitchell, Jr. Set Apart as Mission President

1945 January 3 – 1949

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Franklin Junius Fullmer Called as Mission President

1949 – 1950 February 23

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Le Roy Mallory Set Apart as Mission President

1949 December 12 – 1952 March 21

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Tahitian (1844 - ?) Profile
Tahitian (1844 - ?) Profile
Missionaries to Tahiti
Missionaries to Tahiti
Mission Conference, December 1939
Mission Conference, December 1939
Tahitian Mission Home
Tahitian Mission Home
Missionaries to Tahiti
Missionaries to Tahiti
Tahiti missionaries, March 1906
Tahiti missionaries, March 1906