A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language

ISBN: 9781330432501 出版年：2016 页码：626 Cyrus Byington Forgotten Books

This eminent scholar and missionary, whose name is inseparably connected with the later history of the Choctaw nation, was born at Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Mass, March 11, 1793. He was one of nine children, and his parents were in hum ble circumstances, but industrious and respected. His father was at one time a tan ner, and subsequently a small farmer. Necessarily, therefore, his early education Was limited.