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|a Parker, Samuel,
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|a Transcripts of letters to and from Samuel Parker. One letter is from Samuel Parker from Lexington, Missouri, to his family on his journey in April 1835. The second letter, addressed to his wife is sent from St. Louis in August of 1835. He describes meeting the Flatheads, the Nez Perce, and the Spokane Indians. The third letter is by Narcissa Whitman addressed to dear brothers and sisters and was sent in July 1836 from "beyond the Rocky Mountains." Narcissa Whitman talks about her future home and the journey. The final letter is sent from Jane Prentiss to Mrs. Samuel Parker, dated September 1838 and talks about the Whitmans and the Spaldings. This letter says "copy of a letter owned by Mr. Alexander Mack of New York," but it is not known when it was transcribed. There is no indication of the location of the original copies of the other letters.
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|a Samuel Parker, first Presbyterian missionary in Oregon, was born in Massachusetts in 1779. We was educated at Williams College and the Andover Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1812. He taught and preached in New York until 1833. He married his second wife, Jerusha, with whom he had three children in 1815. He answered a call for missionaries in 1834 and traveled to Oregon Country with Marcus Whitman in 1835. He scouted locations for missions in Oregon selected sites for the American Board of Foreign Missions. After informing the board of the sites, he was rejected for serving as a missionary himself because of his age. He died in Ithaca in 1866.
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