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Peter Parker – missionary and doctor in 19th-century China; Ellen M. Stone - missionary, teacher, author remembered for the Miss Stone Affair; Arthur Henderson Smith – missionary and author, more than 50 years in China; Betsey Stockton – missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave who was one of the first American single women to go on a foreign ...
Father Damien – missionary to Hawaii known for working with the lepers; Anton Docher – French missionary in New Mexico, defender of the Native Americans; Louis William Valentine Dubourg – missionary to the US; Francis Xavier Ford – missionary to China, martyr and Servant of God; Joseph Freinademetz – nineteenth-century canonized ...
Joseph Beech – missionary to Sichuan, Western China; George John Bond – missionary to China and Japan; Henry Augustus Buchtel – did missionary work in Bulgaria, also a Governor of Colorado. Charles Cowman – missionary to Japan; Lettie Cowman – missionary to Japan; Henry Hare Dugmore – Wesleyan missionary and translator in South Africa
This is a list of notable Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as medical missionaries.
Samuel Wilson (missionary translator) (c.1812 – after 1840) - from Tahiti (English) to Samoa; William Charles Cotton (1813–1879) - from England to New Zealand; Octavius Hadfield (1814–1904) - from Isle of Wight to New Zealand; John Geddie (missionary) (1815–1872) - from Canada to Vanuatu; Charles Hardie (c.1816 – after 1843) - from ...
1964 – Young missionary and pilot Jerry Douglas Witt; [394] is presumably shot down over the mining town of Minas Las Coloradas, Zacatecas Mexico while dropping Gospels of St. John from his Cessna 170B, killing him and a young Mexican national who was with him; In separate incidents, rebels in the Congo kill missionaries Paul Carlson, Phyllis ...
Cicero Washington Pruitt (1857–1946) - One of the first missionaries to Northern China, ordained minister at the age of fourteen, and textual translator; James A. Ranaldson (1789–1849) - Minister, founder of the Alabama Baptist Convention, missionary, and church founder.
Missionaries preaching under kukui groves, 1841. This is a list of missionaries to Hawaii. Before European exploration, the Hawaiian religion was brought from Tahiti by PaŹ»ao according to oral tradition. Notable missionaries with written records below are generally Christian.