Farmer, Ferdinand, 1720-1786
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Weissenstein (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
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Missionaries
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found: Schmid, Johanna. Amerikanisierung oder Gegenkultur? : Jesuiten aus den deutschen Provinzen in Maryland und Pennsylvania 1740-1833, 2013:page 181 (Ferdinand Steinmeyer; German Jesuit active in Lancaster and Philadelphia, where he went by the name Farmer) PDF on accompanying CD-ROM (Ferdinand Farmer)
found: New Catholic encyclopedia. Second edition:volume 5, page 628 (Farmer, Ferdinand; German Jesuit missionary; birth name was Ferdinand Steinmeyer; born at Weissenstein in Württemberg, October 13, 1720; died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 17, 1786; worked in China before being sent to America in 1752; he is sometimes called the father of the Catholic Church in New York and New Jersey)
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2015-06-15: new
2015-06-16: revised
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