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Michigan Abel Bingham
Many of his friends urged him to leave the place, but he replied, " I never yet have deserted my post in time of danger, and will not now." The officers deemed it prudent to keep a guard around the house every night for several months. Tanner was never seen afterward, and nothing is positively known of his fate, though it was rumored by some old Red River Indians "that on such a moon (corresponding with the month of January, after his disappearance), he came among them, and after a few moons passed away "—(died.)
Mr. B. had associated with him at different times assistant missionaries, some of whom were afterwards appointed to the foreign field, and others to the Mississippi, among the Cherokee's. His son, Rev. Adoniram Judsou Bingham, who graduated at Madison University in 1848, was associated with him for a short time.
Early Michigan Preachers
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