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Henry Richard Hoisington (23 August 1801 – 16 May 1858) was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) and was one of the first three missionaries who established mission station at Madura, commencing American Madura Mission in South India as an offshoot of the Jaffna Mission in Ceylon, also known as Ceylon Mission.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

He translated The Oriental Astronomer: Being a Complete System of Hindu Astronomy.[6]

  1. ^ Jensen, Herman (2002). Madura Gazetteer. Genesis Publishing Pvt Ltd. pp. 77–78. ISBN 978-81-7020-969-0.
  2. ^ Evangelical Alliance for the United States of America (1848). The Christian union, and religious memorial. S. Hueston. p. 55.
  3. ^ "Mission in India has staff of 1000". Retrieved July 12, 2012. American Madura Mission was founded in the winter of 1834 by three men--Henery Richard Hoisington, of Vergennes, Vt; William Todd, Marcellus, N.Y; and Levi Spaulding, Jaffery, N.H.
  4. ^ "American Ceylon Mission" (PDF). images.library.yale.edu. pp. 1–35. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
  5. ^ Wilder, Royal Gould (1861). Mission schools in India of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. A. D. F. Randolph. pp. 340–360.
  6. ^ a b Shavit, David (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 241. ISBN 0-313-26788-X.

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