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    1. [Mo-Absts] MO ABSTRACTS Mo Baptists
    2. HISTORY OF MISSOURI BAPTISTS Published 1934 Missionaries to Brazil ANNE LUTHER BAGBY was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1859; moved to St. Louis where she was converted and baptized in 1870; attended the public schools of St. Louis; graduated from Lexington Female College; taught two years at Baylor College, Texas; married W. B. BAGBY and went to Brazil under appointment of Foreign Mission Board in 1880, where she still lives and labors. She is the first person born in Missouri to become a foreign missionary. Miss NINA EVERETT was born in Missouri; appointment for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by the Foreign Mission Board in 1885; returned in 1887. Miss MAGGIE RICE was appointed from Missouri to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by the Foreign Mission Board in 1887 and died there in 1888. Mrs EMMA MORGON GINSBURG was born January 16, 1865, in Owensboro, Kentucky. In 1880, she removed with her father's family to St. Louis, Missouri. In 1882 she entered the high school at Boonville from which she graduated in 1883. She was received into the Baptist Church at Louisiana, Missouri, and upon hearing of the death of Maggie Rice, offered herself as a missionary to Brazil. She sailed from Newport News, June 16, 1889, for Rio de Janeiro under appointment of Foreign Mission Board. She was married in August 1893, to Rev. SOLOMON L. GINSBURG, and since then has been the efficient helper of this enthusiastic missionary. Norma

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