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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Arms

1802–89

American missionary and physician. From Wilmington, Vermont. Graduated from Andover in 1833. Accompanied Titus Coan to assess the possibility of establishing a mission in Patagonia, November 1833 – January 1834. Later stationed in Singapore and Sambas, Borneo. Released from the service in 1838.

Sources

Coan 1880, pp. 10–11

Goodhue 1891, p. 77

Missionary Herald 36 (1840): 25

Bibliography

Coan, Titus. 1880. Adventures in Patagonia: a missionary’s exploring trip. With an introduction by Rev. Henry M. Field. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.

Goodhue, Jonathan E. 1891. History and genealogy of the Goodhue family in England and America to the year 1890. Rochester, NY: E. R. Andrews.

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