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Dr. Eugene Celadon van Cooten
Born
1820 (1820)
Died
1851 (aged 30–31)
Nationality
Dutch
Education
Islington Institution
Medical career
Profession
doctor, surgeon, medical missionary, missionary
Eugene C. Van Cooten (1820-1851) was a Dutch surgeon and missionary.[1] He worked at Islington College, a part of the Church Missionary Society College, Islington in London and traveled to the Badagry mission in Nigeria in March 1850.[2] He was among the first missionaries to work at the Yoruba mission in Badagry within the Church Missionary Society.[3] He served from 1850 to 1851.[3] Along with classmates, E. G. Irving and A. A. Harrison, they sacrificed their lives for their missionary work.[1] He died in 1851.[4]
^ abChurch Missionary Society. "Chapter VII: Forty Years Ago." One Hundred Years: Being the Short History of the Church Missionary Society, 3rd ed., Church Missionary Society, 1899, pp. 85.
^Stock, Eugene. "Three Missions and Three Bishops ." The History of the Church Missionary Society: Its Environment, Its Men and Its Work, Church Missionary Soc., 1899, p. 117.
^ abSchram, Ralph. "The Missionary Movement in the West ." A History of the Nigerian Health Services with an Introduction by Sir Samuel Manuwa, Ibadan University Press, 1971, pp. 59–78.
^"Van Cooten Voices." Eugene Celadon Van Cooten b. Abt 1820 d. 13 Mar 1851 Badagry, Yoruba, Nigeria: Van Cooten Genealogy, www.vc.id.au/gen/getperson.php?personID=I60&tree=vc.
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Eugene C. VanCooten (1820-1851) was a Dutch surgeon and missionary. He worked at Islington College, a part of the Church Missionary Society College, Islington...