Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger

Autobiography & journal of Rev. Joseph Badger, 1840.

1 v. (100 p.) ; 32 cm.

English

The manuscript was later published, with many omissions and revisions, as A Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger (Hudson, Ohio: Sawyer, Ingersoll, 1851).

Ex libris Frank T. Siebert. Purchased from Sotheby's on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 1999.

Joseph Badger, one of the earliest Christian missionaries to Ohio.

Joseph Badger's holograph manuscript memoir gives a short history of his ancestors in America, his participation in the Revolutionary War, education at Yale, ministry at Blandford, Massachusetts, journey to the Western Reserve in 1800, and his work with Native American tribes and settlers in the Western Reserve. At the end of his account is a history of the settlements in the Western Reserve.

June 01, 2002

Joseph Badger, Autobiography & Journal of Rev. Joseph Badger. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Joseph Badger, Autobiography & Journal of Rev. Joseph Badger. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Autobiographies.