1. Cephas Washburn was a Christian missionary and educator who worked with the Cherokee of northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma.
12 Facts About Cephas Washburn
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Cephas Washburn's parents were Josiah W and Phebe Washburn.
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Cephas Washburn's father was a farmer, and Cephas seemed destined to follow in that occupation.
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Cephas Washburn graduated from the University of Vermont, and the Andover Theological Seminary.
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The Royalton Congregational Association in Randolph, Vermont, licensed Washburn to preach in January 1818.
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Cephas Washburn served as a missionary to the Cherokee Indians at Brainerd Mission, Tennessee, for a short while.
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Cephas Washburn migrated with them westward, arriving in Arkansas in 1819.
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Cephas Washburn founded Dwight Presbyterian Mission near present-day Russellville in 1820 to serve the newly arrived Cherokee.
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Cephas Washburn served as the primary Indian missionary in the Arkansas region until he resigned in 1850.
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Cephas Washburn died at Little Rock, Arkansas, on March 17,1860, of pneumonia, while traveling to Helena, Arkansas, for an evangelical meeting.
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Cephas Washburn is buried at the historic Mount Holly Cemetery in downtown Little Rock.
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Cephas Washburn's granddaughter Mabel Washbourne Anderson was a noted Cherokee writer.