David Abeel (1804 - 1846)

Born 12 Jun 1804 in New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States

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Died 4 Sep 1846 at age 42 in Albany, Albany, New York, United States

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Biography

"ABEEL, DAVID: Missionary; b. at New Brunswick, N. J., June 12, 1804; d. at Albany, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1846. He was graduated at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1826; in 1829 he went to Canton as chaplain of the Seaman's Friend Society; and in 1831-33 he visited Java, Singapore, and Siam for the American Board. Returning to America by way of Europe in 1833, he aided in founding in England a society for promoting the education of women in the East. He went back to China in 1838 and founded the Amoy mission in 1842. He published a Journal of his first residence in China (New York, 1835), The Missionary Convention at Jerusalem (1838), Claims of the World to the Gospel (1838)."-source: Find A Grave

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13936800/david-abeel

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHZC-Y2W

• Wylie, Alexander Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese (American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai, China, 1867), page 72-75.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Abeel