Vinton book
Subtitle: copy
By: compiled by John A. Vinton, Alfred O. Treat, A. M. Chapin,  and others
Publisher: transcriber and typist not identified
Published: 1944
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Subjects: Missionaries; Biography; American Missions; History; American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Description: These volumes consist of typescript transcriptions of two volumes of the Missionaries of the A.B.C.F.M. Memorandum, 1885-1910, begun by the Reverend John A. Vinton, and continued by Dr. Alfred O.Treat, and Miss A.M. Chapin, and others unknown. The first volume was broken into three parts (volumes 1-3), and the secons consists of volume 4.
Notes: Caption title.

Includes indexes.

Typescript. New York, N.Y. : American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

"Reverend John A. Vinton, then of South Boston, later of Winchester, Massachusetts, compiled in 1869 brief biographies of missionaries of the American Board from the beginning of the Board's history till 1869, writing them in longhand in a blank book. Mr. Vinton died November 13, 1877. The biographies were brought down to 1878 by Dr. Alfred O.Treat. From 1878 to 1886 the notices were prepared by Miss A.M. Chapin. In copying the Vinton Book, we have divided it into three volumes."--Preface to volume 1.

"This volume is a typewritten copy of Missionaries of the A.B.C.F.M. Memorandum, 1885-1910, which is the second of two volumes of handwritten biographical memoranda about the missionaries of the American Board. The first volume was copied after 1910; this volume is being copied in 1967. These volumes are also known as the Vinton Book after the Reverend John A. Vinton, who wrote the major part of the first handwritten volume, the format of which was used in this second volume. His work was carried on, after his death, by Dr. Alfred O. Treat, Miss A. Chapin, and others until a card filing system was adopted."--Preface to volume 4.

Bound in tan library buckram, imprinted title in black on covers.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1 :; title: Africa -- Asia (Eastern): China, Japan -- Asia (Southern): India and Ceylon -- Papal lands, Austria, Italy, Spain, Mexico ; -- Volume 2 :; title: The South American Indians -- The Sandwich Islands -- Micronesia -- East Indian Islands: Borneo, Java, Sumatra -- Mission to Patagonia -- Exploring mission to South America ; -- Volume 3 :; title: The Near East: Armenia, Persia, Mission to Nestorians, Syria, Turkey (including European Turkey, the Balkans ; -- Volume 4 :; title: 1885-1910.