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    The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810...
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    generally Christian. Several groups were sent from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The first ABCFM company arrived on March 30, 1820...
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    Haystack Prayer Meeting (category History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts)
    of the people of Asia. Within four years of that gathering, some of its members established the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)...
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  • S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. New York: Presbyterian Church Board of Foreign Missions. 1899. Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian...
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  • Carl Heine (category Date of birth not in Wikidata)
    minister in 1906, he worked for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) and what is now the United Church of Christ – Congregational...
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    provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, and Guangxi; and Japan also had influence in Fujian. As the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions wrote...
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    1826–1827 were: the American Education Society, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Bible Society, the American Sunday School...
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  • located in Üsküdar borough of Istanbul, Turkey. The school was established by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1876. Today, it is...
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    Swiss-born American missionary sent to Hong Kong and China by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to start the Hong Kong Mission (later...
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  • Samuel John Mills (category People of the American colonization movement)
    licensed to preach in 1812. While one of the group that helped form the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Mills served as a missionary in...
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    David Olyphant (category American people of Scottish descent)
    an American trader in the Far East and "the father of the American Mission to China". He was an elected member of the American Board of Commissioners for...
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    Arthur Henderson Smith (category People of Connecticut in the American Civil War)
    was a Christian missionary and a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, noted for spending 54 years as a missionary in China...
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    New England theology (category History of Christianity in the United States)
    furnished the impetus for social change which birthed the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, established a series of colleges from Amherst...
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    Kahramanmaraş (category Recipients of the Medal of Independence with Red Ribbon (Turkey))
    the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 4,500 Turks were killed during the battle. In modern Turkey, data on the ethnic makeup of the...
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    James Redhouse (category Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    commissioned by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for his dictionary. His work was later used as the basis for many Turkish–English...
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  • 16 May 1858) was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) and was one of the first three missionaries...
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  • American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions one; and Lutherans one. In the same year, 1872, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Episcopal missions converted...
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    Whitman massacre (category Pre-statehood history of Washington (state))
    arrival of the members of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). These relations set expectations among the Cayuse for how exchanges...
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    John Dunbar (missionary) (category American Presbyterian missionaries)
    Meeting took place, the birthplace of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and the symbolic origin of the entire antebellum missionary...
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  • Levi Spaulding (category American Protestant missionaries)
    was a missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and led a team of American missionaries to choose...
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  • support and co-operation of the American Marathi Mission, Bombay, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, Minneapolis, Minnesota...
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    Mark Hopkins (educator) (category Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees)
    his death was president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions—the foreign missions board for American Congregationalists, Presbyterians...
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    Sybil Moseley Bingham (category American educators)
    an American teacher in the Hawaiian Islands, a member of the first company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions...
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    Elijah Coleman Bridgman (category Use American English from July 2023)
    first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. One of the first...
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    Cephas Washburn (category American Congregationalist missionaries)
    for Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College and a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Dwight Mission...
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    Miron Winslow (category American Ceylon Mission)
    1789 – 22 October 1864) was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to the American Ceylon Mission, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where...
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  • Kiribati Uniting Church (category Members of the World Communion of Reformed Churches)
    Christian missions until the latter half of the 19th century. Protestant missionaries (e.g., Hiram Bingham) sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign...
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    Rufus Anderson (category American Ceylon Mission)
    (1804–1880) on January 8, 1827. He worked at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) as an assistant while studying at Andover...
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  • by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which established Congregationalist churches across the islands. An association of atoll churches...
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    Philip Delaporte (category American lexicographers)
    ABCFM Board (1911). Annual report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Vol. 101–104. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions...
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