SPALDING, Henry H

[s. 717] : Born at Bath, N. Y., 1804; graduated 1833, and Lane at Western Reserve College, Theological Seminary, 1835; ordained August the same year; appointed by the ABCFM in 1836 mi ionary to the Nez Perces Indians, with his wife. Dr. and Mrs. Whitman, and William B. Gray. In a company of fur traders they traveled on horseback nearly 2,200 miles beyond the Mi ouri River, to Fort Wall a Wall a, a trading post of the Hudson Bay Company, which they reached September 3, 1836, being four months and six days on from Liberty, Mo., to that place. journey the The mi ion was broken up by the ma acre Whitman and others in 1847. Mr. of Dr. Spalding, who was in the vicinity, providentially escaped. The murderers were on his track. Hiding by day, he made his way night after night, barefooted, over sharp rocks and thorns, until, almost Then, with dead, he reached a place of safety. In his family, he left the mi ion field for a time. 1862 he resumed his work, but remained only a few years. In 1871 he renewed his labors under the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mi ions, in which he continued till his death, which occurred at Lapnor, Idaho, August 3, 1874. Tho his labors were interrupted, he accomplished a great work among the Indians. Over 900 of the Nez Perces and Spokanes were added to the church through He prepared a translation his instrumentality. of the Gospel of Matthew and a collection of Nez Perces hymns. At the time of his death he had a translation of the Acts well advanced. 717