History of Spokane County Washington United States of America

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Myron Eells, clergyman, was born at Tshinakain, Walker's Prairie, Spokane county, Oregon, Oct. 7, 1843; son of the Rev. Cushing and Myra (Fairbank) Eells, missionaries. He was graduated from Pacific university, Oregon, in 1866, and from the Hartford theological seminary in 1871. He was ordained as a Congregational minister at the Fourth church, Hartford, Conn., June 15, 1871, and was pastor at Boise City, Idaho, 1871-74, under the American home missionary society. He was assistant pastor at Snohomish, W.T., 1874-76, and became pastor under the American missionary association in 1876. In this capacity he organized churches at the following places in Washington Territory and state: Seabeck, 1880, Dungeness, 1882, Holly, 1891, Riverside, 1897, and Brinnon, 1897, and had pastoral charge of all these churches in 1899. He was elected a trustee of Pacific university in 1878 and of Whitman college in 1888, and received from the latter the degree of D.D. in 1890. He was made a member of many scientific societies and a corresponding member of the Anthropological society, Washington, D.C., and of the Victoria institute, London, England. He superintended the ethnological exhibit of Washington at the World's Columbian exposition in 1893. He is the author of: Chinook Jargon Hymns (1878); Life of S. H. Marsh, D.D. (1881); History of the Cougregational Association of Oregon and Washington (1881); Indian Missions (1883); Ten Years at Snohomish (1886); Twana, Chamakum and Clallam Indians (1889); Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon Language (1893); Indians of Puget Sound (1894); Father Eells (1894); and several pamphlets.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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