The Whitmans sent really good reports back to the 13 colonies, stirring up great interest and bringing lots of settlers and other missionaries West. To Oregon!!!
Because, the Whitmans were spreading disease, by accident
Well, the Whitmans are a family, and the Mormons are a religion, so they can't really be compared. I know Whitmans who are Mormon, though.
Jason Lee and the Whitmans were white missionaries that built the first permanent dwellings in Oregon. Before that, it was mostly fur traders and other merchants in the area on a temporary basis.
Yes, the story of John Sager is true. He was a young member of the Sager family who traveled the Oregon Trail and was orphaned along the journey. John was eventually cared for and adopted by another family, the Whitmans, who were missionaries.
Although the American Board for Foreign Missions sent the first American missionaries to the PNW (the Whitmans and the Spaldings), the first missionary to the PNW was in fact Spokane Garry, who left eastern Washington in 1825 for the Red River Mission in Canada and returned in 1829 as a converted Christian who independently taught his tribe from the Bible.
Whitman would likely be in favor of freedom of speech.
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well... most of the time the families of the church, that the missionaries go to, the families make the missionaries food, such as breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even snacks.
Pentecostals and Baptists constitute the majority of bible-based Christian missionaries in Nepal.
David Livingstone, Mary mackillop, Fred hollows.....
Whitmans