Background
Labaree, Benjamin was born on March 21, 1834 in at Columbia, Tennessee, United States. Son of Review Doctor Benjamin (president Middlebury College, Vermont) and Eliza P. (Capen) Labaree.
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Benjamin Labaree
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Graduate Middlebury College, 1854, Andover Theological Seminary, 1859. (Doctor of Divinity, Marietta and Middlebury, 1887). Ordained in Congressional ministry, 1860.
Career
Missionary American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Persia from 1860. Father of Review Benjamin Woods Labaree, who was murdered by Kurds in Persia, March 9, 1904, whose death was the occasion of important diplomatic transactions between United States and Persia. Translated the Four Gospels into Azerbaijan Turkish.
Superintendent mission press. Editor Rays of Light and other literature (Syriac). Revised Old and New Testament in modern Syriac.
Connections
Married Elizabeth Edwards Woods, June 5, 1860.
