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American Home Missionary Society

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The American Home Missionary Society (AHMS or A. H. M. Society) was a Protestant missionary society in the United States founded in 1826. [1]

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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations.

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American Missionary Association

The American Missionary Association (AMA) was a Protestant-based abolitionist group founded on September 3, 1846, in Albany, New York.

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Anson Green Phelps

Anson Green Phelps (March 24, 1781 – November 30, 1853) was an American entrepreneur and business man from Connecticut.

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Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church

The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC), as it exists today, is the remnant of a small denomination, which was formed from the Synod of the South, a division of the Associate Reformed Church.

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Broadway United Church of Christ

Broadway United Church of Christ is a Congregationalist Church located on West 86th Street, between Broadway and West End Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Charles Beecher

Charles Beecher (October 1, 1815 – April 21, 1900) was an American minister, composer of religious hymns and a prolific author.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to spread Christianity.

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Clarissa Munger Badger

Clarissa Munger Badger (1806–1889) was a mid 19th century American botanical illustrator best known for three volumes of flower paintings accompanied by poetry.

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Congregational church

Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.

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Congregationalism in the United States

Congregationalism in the United States consists of Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition that have a congregational form of church government and trace their origins mainly to Puritan settlers of colonial New England.

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Deseret News

The Deseret News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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Eleazar Lord

Eleazar Lord (September 9, 1788 – June 3, 1871) was an American author, educator, deacon of the First Protestant Dutch Church and first president of the Erie Railroad.

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Elyria, Ohio

Elyria is a city in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area and the county seat of Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River in Northeast Ohio 23 miles southwest of Cleveland.

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First Congregational Church (Salt Lake City, Utah)

The First Congregational Church of Salt Lake City, Utah is a Congregational church affiliated with the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches.

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First Presbyterian Church (Chicago)

The First Presbyterian Church (Chicago) was the first Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

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George H. Atkinson

George Henry Atkinson (May 10, 1819 – February 25, 1889) was an American missionary and educator in what would become the state of Oregon.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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Horace Lyman

Horace Lyman (November 16, 1815 – March 31, 1887) was a reverend and professor of mathematics in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Ira Hobart Evans

Ira Hobart Evans (April 11, 1844 – April 19, 1922) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and received the Medal of Honor.

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John Jay Shipherd

John Jay Shipherd (March 28, 1802 – September 16, 1844) was an American clergyman who co-founded Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio in 1833 with Philo Penfield Stewart.

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John Waldo Douglas

John Waldo Douglas (April 14, 1818 – September 24, 1883) was an American Presbyterian minister.

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Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs

Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, II (September 28, 1821 – August 14, 1874) was a Presbyterian minister and a prominent African-American officeholder during Reconstruction.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States

The National Council of Congregational Churches of the United States was a mainline Protestant, Christian denomination in the United States.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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Nebraska Territory

The Territory of Nebraska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until March 1, 1867, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Nebraska.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Oberlin, Ohio

Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, southwest of Cleveland.

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Olivet College

Olivet College is a private liberal arts college located in Olivet, Michigan, United States, south of Lansing and west of Detroit.

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Olivet, Michigan

Olivet is a city in Eaton County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Oregon City, Oregon

Oregon City is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan area.

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Plan of Union of 1801

The Plan of Union of 1801 was an agreement between the Congregational churches of New England and the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America for mutual support and joint effort in evangelizing the American frontier.

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Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) was the first national Presbyterian denomination in the United States, existing from 1789 to 1958.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.

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Reformed Church in America

The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a mainline Reformed Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States.

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Reuben Gaylord

Reuben Gaylord (April 28, 1812 – January 10, 1880) was the recognized leader of the missionary pioneers in the Nebraska Territory, and has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska."Punchard, G. (1865) "Congregationalism in Nebraska," History of Congregationalism from about A.D. 250 to the Present Time. Hurd and Houghton.

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Stephen Van Rensselaer

Stephen Van Rensselaer III (November 1, 1764January 26, 1839) was a New York landowner, businessman, militia officer, and politician.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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Theodore S. Peck

Theodore Safford Peck (March 22, 1843 – March 15, 1918) was an American Civil War veteran who received the Medal of Honor.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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William Patton

William Patton (August 23, 1798 - September 9, 1879), was a pastor, abolitionist, and the son of patriot Robert Patton.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Home_Missionary_Society

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