biography
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| lived:
| (1838–89)
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| biography:
| Minister and educator, born in Perry Center, New York, USA. He studied at Andover Theological Seminary (1868). Known as the ‘Father of Congregationalism’ in Dakota Territory, he founded Yankton Academy (1872), which became Yankton College (1881), the first college in the upper Mississippi R valley. He was president of the college (1881–9) and is credited with establishing the public education system in South Dakota. South Dakota placed his statue in the US Capitol. |
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