Title: Forty years of pioneer life
Subtitle: memoir of John Mason Peck D.D.
First published: 1864
Description: John Mason Peck (1789-1858) was a Baptist missionary on the Illinois frontier who evangelized; established numerous churches, Sunday schools and Bible societies; and established institutions for training preachers and teachers. The editor wrote that he drew upon fifty years of Peck’s collected correspondence (1808 -1858) as well as 53 volumes of his journals to write this memoir.
Subjects: Baptists, Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, Correspondence, Missionaries, Diaries, Clergy, Pioneers
Places: Mississippi River Valley, United States, Missouri, Illinois
People: John Mason Peck (1789-1858)