Anderson, Rufus. Memorial Volume of the First Fifty Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Boston: Published by the Board, 1863. Fifth Edition. [11814]
Purple pebble cloth bordered in blind, the Board's device stamped on both boards, light edgewear with a few dings, joints are fine, spine faded, 9 x 6 inches. Striking engraved frontispiece of "Deceased Secretaries" of the Board, [i]-xiv, [1]-464 clean pp. with bibliography and index. Very good. Hardcover.
Includes a 12 pp. bibliography of Board publications. Includes lists of missionaries and their stations.
Rufus Anderson brings all of his knowledge and experience of missions and missionaries to bear on this project which he "regards as among the closing labors of his somewhat protracted official life..." p. vi. He has access to the reminiscences and private writings of all of the principal persons involved in the formation and subsequent ministry of the ABCFM and makes good use of them in this memorial volume.
Rufus Anderson (1796-1880), American Congregational minister, born at North Yarmouth, Maine. Mr. Anderson graduated at Bowdoin College (1818), and at Andover theological seminary (1822), being ordained as a minister in 1826. He served as assistant secretary (1824-32) and secretary (1832-1866) of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions. He lectured on foreign missions at Andover, and visited missions all over the world, including those in the Mediterranean, in India, and in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii.)
