American Home Missionary Society
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Identifies RWO
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found: Dict. of Amer. hist., 1940(under Missionary societies, Home: American Home Missionary Society established 1826 by members of Congregational, Presbyterian, Associate Reformed, and Dutch Reformed churches; successive withdrawals left society entirely Congregational after 1861; name changed 1893 to Congregational Home Missionary Society)
found: NUCMC data from Presby. Hist. Soc., Phila., for Philadelphia Home Missionary Society. Records, 1848-1863(American Home Missionary Society)
found: Drury, C.M. Presbyterian panorama, c1952:p. 67, etc. (American Home Missionary Society, although interdenominational in character, was recognized for about ten years by the Presbyterian General Assembly as a semiofficial agency of the Church; after schism in 1837 New School churches continued their home missionary work for a number of years through the American Home Missionary Society)
found: MWA/NAIP files(before 5/12/1826 called United Domestic Missionary Society)
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Change Notes
1985-06-05: new
2002-01-05: revised
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