29 Facts About Eugenio Kincaid

Eugenio Kincaid was an American Baptist missionary who labored for two periods in Burma.

At the age of 33, Kincaid was sent by Baptist Board of Foreign Missions to preach the gospel in Burma.

Eugenio Kincaid's tombstone is found in Girard Kansas where he retired for his health and died.

Eugenio Kincaid worked as a teacher in Pennsylvania before joining a Baptist Church and deciding to study theology.

Eugenio Kincaid was strongly inclined to preach for the salvation of the people in Burma after hearing a sermon from Luther Rice, a fellow missionary of Adoniram Judson.

Eugenio Kincaid then assumed the pastorate of the Baptist Church in Galway, New York.

Eugenio Kincaid was well liked by the congregation but he did not feel contented to remain there.

Eugenio Kincaid was the editor of The Literary and Evangelical Register.

Eugenio Kincaid married Miss Almy Goff and had two sons, Eugenio Wade Kincaid and Judson Kincaid, as well as three children who died in childhood.

In 1832, Eugenio Kincaid moved to Rangoon which was still under Burmese control.

Eugenio Kincaid took charge of the mission schools and with the help of native missionary assistants he maintained many of the public services of the mission.

Nevertheless, a church was planted by the end of a year and Rev Eugenio Kincaid was permitted to preach to hundreds of thousands of people during the three years he was there.

Rev Eugenio Kincaid met many Shan merchants in Ava and he made a plan to visit and learn the habits and characters of these people and other ethnic nationalities.

Since it was impossible to procure men and provisions needed for further excursion, Eugenio Kincaid decided to return to Ava.

Rev Eugenio Kincaid requested for an audience with the new king and was received cordially.

Under the threatening circumstances and fear of the approaching war, Rev Eugenio Kincaid decided to go to more promising fields of Tenasserim.

Eugenio Kincaid made a long exploration trip through the mountains near Mergui.

Eugenio Kincaid saw countless number of tracks of rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, monkey, wild hog, and deer.

Eugenio Kincaid stopped in tribal villages and preach and baptized the converts.

Eugenio Kincaid then turned towards the British controlled province of Arakan.

Rev Eugenio Kincaid accompanied by Rev L Stilson set off to Chetza's domain, seventy six miles away and Rev Stilson established the Khami Mission station, learned their language and reduced it to writing.

Eugenio Kincaid returned to Moulmein in the early part of 1851 and proceeded to Rangoon.

Barbara Kincaid took refuge on a British merchant ship as she was a British subject and Eugenio Kincaid was asked, because of his knowledge of Burmese, to accompany the British delegation to the provincial governor.

Rev Eugenio Kincaid went to Prome and made many excursions to the surrounding area and many Burmese and Karens were baptized.

Rev Eugenio Kincaid accepted the proposal because Barbara Eugenio Kincaid needed a change of climate for her feeble health and there were some misunderstandings between the Baptist Board of Missions and a number of the missionaries in the field, with regard to policies and field of labor, etc.

In 1857, Eugenio Kincaid carried the royal letter, enclosed in an ivory box lined with crimson velvet, and proceeded to Washington, DC to present it to President James Buchanan.

In 1857, Rev Eugenio Kincaid left his family in America and returned to Burma by way of England, the Mediterranean and overland route from Alexandria to Suez and oversea through Gulf of Suez to Ceylon, Calcutta and Burma.

From 1857 to 1865, Eugenio Kincaid served at Prome, primarily among the Karen and Shan peoples.

In failing health, Eugenio Kincaid returned to the United States in 1866, retiring first as a supply preacher in Philadelphia and later in Girard Kansas; he died there on April 3,1883.