biography
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| lived:
| (1802–47)
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| biography:
| Physician and missionary, born in Rushville, New York, USA. He established a mission near present-day Walla Walla, WA (1836), and after returning E he brought over 900 settlers to Washington (1843). Following a measles epidemic in which many Indians died but most whites survived, he and his wife were killed by Cayuse Indians. |
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