De Schweinitz, Edmund A.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID ZEISBERGER, The Western Pioneer and Apostle of the Indians.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1870. Item #66593

747p, cloth, light wear to head and tail of spine, bumped corner, good - very good. First edition. USIANA D-273. Thomson. 324:"Valuable not merely to the general reader, but for the student of Moravian History among the Indians." Zeisberger (1721-1808) was born in Moravia and raised at a Moravian colony in Georgia. He lived on the frontier as a missionary to the Indians and in 1772 established Schoenbrunn in the Tuscarawas Valley and Gnadenhutton a year later. He started the first church and first school in Ohio and spent the last years of his life in Goshen, Tusc. Co.

Price: $175.00