Tefft, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1813-1885

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Benjamin Franklin Tefft was born in Floyd, New York, 20 August, 1813 and died in Brewer, Maine, 16 September, 1885. He was graduated at Wesleyan University in 1835, taught four years in Maine Wesleyan Seminary, and then, entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was pastor at Bangor, Maine, in 1839-1841. He then taught in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and in 1842 accepted a charge in Boston, but his health failed in 1843, and after travelling in the south and west he was for three years professor of Greek and Hebrew in Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University. In 1846 he became editor of the books and magazines of the Methodist book concern in Cincinnati, where he conducted the "Ladies' Repository" in 1846-1852, and in 1851-1854 he was president of Oenesee College, Lima, New York, also editing in 1852-1854 the "Northern New Yorker," published at Canandaigua. He was pastor of different churches in Bangor, Maine, from 1858 till 1861, when he was made United States consul at Stockholm and acting minister to Sweden, and in 1864 he was commissioner of immigration from the north of Europe for the state of Maine. In 1861 he was appointed Chaplain of the First Calvary Maine Volunteers. In 1866 he became pastor of a church in Portland, and from 1873 till 1878 he edited "The Northern Border," published at Bangor, Maine. During the last two years of his life he was in feeble health. Besides pamphlets, lectures, addresses, and contributions to current literature, Dr. Tefft was the author of several books.

From the description of Papers, 1836-1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 55988856

Methodist Episcopal clergyman, chaplain of the 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment, and acting U.S. minister to Sweden, 1862-1864. In 1864 he acted as immigration agent for the Michigan-based Pewabic, Franklin, and Quincy mining companies.

From the description of Benjamin F. Tefft letterbook, 1861 and 1864. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 78962850

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associatedWith Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914. person
associatedWith Emery, Charles. person
associatedWith Franklin Mining Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891. person
associatedWith Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. person
associatedWith Morrill, Lot M. (Lot Myrick), 1812-1883. person
associatedWith Pewabic Mining Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Pond, Enoch, 1791-1882. person
associatedWith Quincy Mining Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) corporateBody
associatedWith Seward, Frederick William, 1830-1915. person
associatedWith Tefft, Henry F. person
associatedWith United States. Army. Maine Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) corporateBody
associatedWith Washburn, Israel, 1813-1883. person
associatedWith Weston, James Partelow, 1815-1888. person
Place Name Admin Code Country
Michigan--Keweenaw Peninsula
Sweden
United States
Michigan
United States
Sweden
Subject
Education
Copper mines and mining
Foreign workers
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Birth 1813

Death 1885

English,

Swedish

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