biography
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| lived:
| (1803–45)
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| biography:
| Missionary and Oregon pioneer, born in Stanstead, Canada (then part of Vermont). He led a Methodist mission to the Flathead Indians (1834) and settled near present-day Salem, OR. He contributed to the creation of a provisional government for Oregon (1843), then returned to his home town (1844) after being removed from leadership of his mission. |
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