JOHN, Christian Samuel. Frobersgrun, Thuringia 11.8.1747 — 1813. Rev. German Pietist Missionary in South India. Son of Rev. Julius Gerhard John and Catharina Dorothea Pyriaus. After school in Greiz studied theology at Halle. Ordained priest in Copenhagen before sailing to India. Worked as teacher from 1771 in Tranquebar. He was…
JANVIER, Levi. Pittsgrove (or Daretown), NJ 25.4.1816 — Anandpore (or Sabathu) 25.3.1864. Rev. U.S. Presbyterian Missionary in the Pañjāb. Son of Rev. George Washington Janvier (1784–1865) and Margaret Fries. Graduated 1835 from Princeton and worked as teacher. Ordained priest. D.D. Married and left for India in 1841. Worked in Fatehpur,…
HOWELL, William. Madras (?) 1.11.1790 (1789?) — Madras c. 1867. Rev. Missionary. Son of the elder William Howell (d. 1803), a soldier who had arrived in India in 1789, and his wife (died perhaps in 1793). Educated in Madras. When 14 apprenticed as Assistant Surveyor in Madras Survey under Major…
HOOPER, John Stirling Morley. Stirling, Scotland 12.4.1882 — Stratford-upon-Avon 2.5.1974. Rev. British Wesleyan Missionary in India. Son of John Henry Hooper. Studies at Oxford (Corpus Christi College, B.A. & M.A.). Came to India in 1905 and worked as missionary priest in Madras. From 1930 Headmaster of Wesley Higher Secondary School in Madras.…
HOLLER, Helmuth Peter. Holstein 8.6.1871 — 19??. Rev. U.S. (German-born) Missionary in India. Studies at Berlin and Kiel. Ph.D. In 1895 came to the U.S.A. Ordained Lutheran priest 1896. Two years minister in Nebraska, then 1897-1900 Principal of Rajahmundry Seminary (in Andhra Pradesh). Back from India he was Professor and…
HENRIQUES, Henrique (-quez, Anrique Anriquez, Aṇṭiṟīkku Aṭikaḷār). Vila Viçosa, Evora 1520 — Punnaikkayal, dt. Tōttukkuṭi 6.2.1600. S.J. Portuguese Priest and Missionary, in India 1546-1600. Born in a Sephardic Jewish family. Rejected by Franciscans because of his Jewish background he studied Canonic Law at Coimbra and in 1545 joined the S.J.…
HEDBERG, Samuel Enoch (Enok). Bellö near Jönköping 19.9.1871 — Lund 17.4.1945 (1947?). Rev. Swedish Missionary in India. Son of Samuel Fredrik Olofsson (1849–1957) and Anna Lena Andersdotter, a modest tenant family. Educated at mission school in Johannelund. Went in 1905 to Central India, where his elder sister Hanna already worked…
HARRISON, H. J. 1??? — 1???. Rev. Missionary. Educated at Bishop’s College in Calcutta. In 1841 missionary in Barrioore near Calcutta, also studies at Bishop’s College. Around 1847 assisted as Catechist Rev. Driberg in founding the new Nurbudda Mission for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. One contemporary…
HALLAM, Ebenezer Charles Bethlehem. Worcester 1.1.1833 — Lakemont, Yates County, NY 9.1.1915. British (Canadian) Missionary in India. Son of Samuel Hallam (1801–1888) and Ann Chamberlin. Educated at King Edward’s Grammar School, Birmingham, and Kormal’ School, Toronto. Ordained Baptist Priest 1855. From 1857 worked in Orissa, in 1863-67 in America, then…
GRAHAM, John Anderson. De Beauvoir near London 8.9.1861 — Kalimpong 1942. Very Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in Sikkim. Son of David Graham (from Dunbartonshire, d. 1867), a customs officer, and Bridget Nolan (from Ireland), a religious home. The family moved soon to Scotland. The loss of father forced him to…