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BOARDMAN, GEORGE DANA (1801–1.831)

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BOARDMAN, See also:GEORGE See also:DANA (1801–1.831) , See also:American Baptist missionary, was See also:born at See also:Livermore, Me., and educated at See also:Waterville See also:College and See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary. In 1825 he went to See also:India as a missionary, and in 1827 to See also:Burma, where his promising See also:work among the Karens was cut See also:short by his See also:early See also:death. His widow married another well-known Burmese missionary, Adoniram See also:Judson. His son, GEORGE DANA BOARDMAN, the younger (1828–1903), made the voyage from Burma to See also:America alone when six years of See also:age. He graduated in 1852 at See also:Brown University, and from the See also:Newton Theological Institution in 1855. He held Baptist pastorates at See also:Rochester (1856-1864), and at See also:Philadelphia, and was See also:president of the American Baptist Missionary See also:Union. 188o–1884. At Philadelphia he is said to have taken his See also:congregation through every See also:verse of the New Testament in 643 Wednesday evening lectures, which occupied nearly eighteen years, and afterwards to have begun on the Old Testament in similar See also:fashion. Among his published See also:works are Studies in the See also:Model See also:Prayer (1879), and Epiphanies of the Risen See also:Lord (1879).

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