Names
The most famous pioneer of colonial times
Daniel Boone
America’s first missionary to a foreign land
George Liele
first to discover gold in California on Sutter’s ranch
James Marshall
English founder of the Methodist church
John Wesley
Minuteman, patriot, preacher
Lemuel Haynes
Wrote the first major American dictionary
Noah Webster
the Father of American Missions
Adoniram Judson
Famous missionaries to Oregon. She was the first white woman to travel west of the Rockies.
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
One of the most famous circuit riders
Peter Cartwright
Preached to wounded Confederate soldiers and to the Virginia General Assembly
John Jasper
McGuffey Readers
William McGuffey
founded the African Baptist Missionary Society of Richmond; was a missionary to Liberia
Lott Carey
my task was to open Japan for trade with the US. I conducted the first Protestant worship service in Japan
Commodore Matthew Perry
Founder of the first black denomination
Richard Allen
Started New Your City’s first Sunday school
Catherine (Katy) Ferguson
my students became know as “circuit-riding preachers”
Francis Asbury
President Jefferson sent us to explore the Louisiana territory
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Johnathan Goble
Two English hymn writers whose words were popular during the Second Great Awakening
Watts and Wesley
President during the War of 1812
Thomas Jefferson
One of the best known circuit riders
Peter Cartwright
the Shoshone Indian guide to Meriwether and Lewis
Sacagawea
Opened Japan for trade and my “treaty” opened Japan to Christian missionaries
Townsend Harris
A founder of the American Bible Society and leader of the “haystack prayer meeting”
Samuel J. Mills
Saved important papers and Washington’s portrait
Dolly Madison