Missionar der Cherokee-Indianer; Sekretär der American Education Society; Amerikan. Theologe, Missionar
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Further Biographical Data1794-1832
ActivityMissionar (gnd)
Theologe (gnd)
CountryUSA
Geographic NoteUS (iso3166)
Names
HeadingCornelius, Elias used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Variant NameCornelius, E.
Sources
Found inLOC-NA. — BLC. — Brit. biogr. Arch.
Imprint SourcesLa doctrine de la Trinité. - 1839
Reverend Elias Cornelius (1794-1832) was an American missionary. He opened an early school for American Indians, and took several future Cherokee leaders to be enrolled in the ABCFM school in Cornwall, Connecticut.His father, also named Elias Cornelius, was a physician in the American Revolutionary war. [credited to James B. Longacre from a paiting by Metcalfe / Frontispiece of Bela Bates Edwards (1842) [1833]. Memoir of the Rev. Elias Cornelius. Boston: Perkins & Marvin. https://books.google.com/books?id=zz4AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP6 -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reverend Elias Cornelius.jpg]