Spalding, Eliza (1807–1851)
Spalding, Eliza (1807–1851)
American missionary. Born Eliza Hart, Aug 11, 1807, near Berlin, Connecticut; died of TB, Jan 7, 1851, near Brownsville, Oregon; dau. of Levi Hart (farmer) and Martha (Hart) Hart; m. Henry Harmon Spalding, Oct 13, 1833 (died 1874); children: Eliza Spalding (b. 1837, the 1st white child born in what is now Idaho); Henry Hart Spalding (b. 1839); Martha Jane Spalding (b. 1845); Amelia Lorene Spalding (b. 1846).
One of the 1st white women to cross the Rocky Mountains by wagon train, traveled West with Marcus and Narcissa Whitman to establish Presbyterian missions (1836); with husband, established a Protestant mission among the Nez Percé Indians in eastern Oregon Territory, now Washington State.
See also Women in World History.
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