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Last name Gambold
Display name Gambold
Gender u
Affiliations Moravians
Bio notes In 1801, at the invitation of Cherokee leaders, the Salem Moravians established Spring Place Mission in northwest Georgia, near Chatsworth. Brother John Gambold, a minister and hat maker by profession, and Sister Anna Rosina Gambold, a botanist and former headmistress of the Bethlehem Female Seminary, served in the mission from 1805 until 1821.

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Life of Thomas Eddy