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The Hunsperger/Hunsberger/Huntsberger/Huntzberger families originally of Canton Bern, Switzerland. By about 1720 three brothers, Hans, Jacob and Ulrich Hunsperger, were living in Franconia Twp., Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania. Hans had no known descendants. Therefore descendants in these books are mainly those of Jacob and Ulrich's. Includes other Huntzberger/Hunsberger etc. families that cannot be connected to these three brothers at this time. Family members have migrated all over the United States and Canada.
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was the country's first creator of overseas Christian missions. Founded in 1810 and supported by a coalition of Calvinist denominations, the ABCFM established the first American missions in India, China, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and many other places. It was America's largest missionary organization in the nineteenth century, and its influence was immense. Its missionaries established the first Western schools and hospitals in many parts of the world, and they successfully promoted women's rights and other ideals from the Enlightenment. They also transformed oral languages such as Zulu, Hawaiian, and Cherokee into writ...
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