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Kaunameek. His later mission work was taken up and continued by his brother.
Authority: Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1894.
38 Reverend Samuel Austin Worcester (p. 105): This noted missionary and
philologist, the son of a Congregational minister who was also a printer, was
born at Worcester, Massachusetts, January 19, 1798, and died at Dark Hill, in the
Cherokee Vat ion west. April 2D. 1859. Having removed to Vermont with his father
while still a child, he graduated with the honors of his class at the state university
at Burlington in 1819, and after finishing a course at the theological seminari at
Andover was ordained to the ministrj in 1825. A week later, withhisnewh wedded
bride, he left Boston to begin mission work among the Cherokee, and arrived in
October at the mission of the American hoard, atBrainerd, Tennessee, where he
remained until the end of 1827. He then, with his wife, removed to Sew Echota,in
i leorgia, the capital of the < Iherokee Nation, w here he was the principal worket
establishment of tl Ph(enix, the first newspaper printed in the Chei
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language and alphabet. Iii this labor his inherited printer's instinct came into play,
for he himself supervised the casting of the new types and the systematic arrangement
of them in the case. In March, 1831, he was arrested by the < leorgia authorities for
refusing to take a special oath of allegiance t< i the state. 1 [e was released, but was rear-
rested soon afterward, confined in the state penitentiary, and forced to wear prison
garb, until January, 1833, notwithstanding a decision by the Supreme