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Missionaries -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Cyrus Byington Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS B99
Scope and Content Note

Letters written by Cyrus Byington to relatives in Massachusetts, while serving as a missionary to the Choctaw tribe near Eagle Town, Ark. 1 volume containing typescript copies of 31 letters.

Dates: 1819-1861

Samuel Newton Broadsides

 Collection
Identifier: MS N487
Scope and Content Note

Undated broadsides, printed and circulated or posted at unidentified locales, advertising the Reverend Mr. Newton's free lectures on the Osage, Choctaw, and Cherokee Indians, among whom he served as a missionary for the American Board of Foreign Missions, and on the newly founded Far West Seminary in Washington County, Arkansas.

Copies, made from original printed broadsides preserved in the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Dates: circa 1884

Pipkin Family Narratives

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1309
Scope and Content Note

Included are typed transcripts, prepared by the donor, of two personal narratives: E.L. Compere, Border Missionary, by Jane Lyon (Compere) Pipkin, written in 1944; and Autobiography of William Minor Pipkin.

Dates: 1944, undated

Edward Stibili Pietro Bandini: Missionary, Social Worker, and Colonizer Research Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2237
Scope and Content Note

This collection contains research materials on Sunnyside and Tontitown, Arkansas that were compiled by Edward Stibili during his research for Pietro Bandini: Missionary, Social Worker, and Colonizer, 1852-1917 (2017). Collection materials are predominantly photocopies of books, periodicals, archival sources, and correspondence; the collection does not contain original 19th- or 20th- century documents.

Dates: 1795-2015; Majority of material found within circa 1894-1915