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Michigan Abel Bingham
Mr. James D. Cameron, a half-Indian from Toronto, an Episcopal missionary on the Canada side, having changed his views, joined the mission, and was appointed assistant to the Tequaminon band, where he was still laboring when Mr. Bingham left the Sault. He was a fine Greek and Hebrew scholar, besides speaking three or four different languages fluently. He translated portions of the New Testament into Indian.
It was a happy time in the family of Mr. B. when any of them had an opportunity to make a visit " below," as it was called, and visit the friends that were left behind. On one of these occasions, Mrs. Bingham was wrecked on the steamer Albany, near Thunder Bay on Lake Huron, late in November, and narrowly escaped death, the passengers being carried on the backs of the sailors, from the small boats to an island near by. No lives were lost, and everything saved, And on another, one of the family escaped as by a miracle from being a passenger on the ill-fated steamer Atlantic, that went down on Lake Erie with nearly all on board.
Early Michigan Preachers
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