Forty years of pioneer life

By John Mason Peck

Subjects: Clergy, Diaries, Biography, Pioneers, Correspondence, Missionaries, Baptists, Frontier and pioneer life

Description: John Mason Peck (1789-1858) was a Baptist missionary on the Illinois frontier who evangelized; established numerous churches, Sunday schools and Bible societies; and established institutions for training preachers and teachers. The editor wrote that he drew upon fifty years of Peck’s collected correspondence (1808 -1858) as well as 53 volumes of his journals to write this memoir.