Berkshire County MA Archives Biographies.....Pixley, Rev. Benton July 27, 1783 - April 11, 1835
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Author: William W. Graves

"The First Protestant Osage Missions 1820 - 1837", page 243, by Wm.W. Graves. 

Biography:
Rev. Benton Pixley was one of the very active missionaries that came to Harmony in
1821. He was one of the first to learn the Osage Language, and make use of it in his
work. He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts July 27, 1783. Served as
principal of the Montpelier, Vermont Academy. Was ordained April 19, 1816, served as
pastor of the Congregational church at Williamstown, Vermont, from 1816 until 1821,
when he joined the mission family organized for the Harmony Mission.He worked among
the Osage at Harmony until part of the tribe moved to the Neosho river, and he
followed them and established the Neosho Mission near the present town of Shaw in
Neosho county, Kansas. After a controversy with the Indian agent and some of the
Osage he left there in 1829 and located near Independence Missouri where he preached
for the white people. He was released from the Missionary work January 31, 1831, and
is said to have died at Independence, Missouri, April 11, 1835. He was married to
Lucia F. Howell August 27, 1812. The wee the parents of six children: Harriett
Newell, Levi Parsons, Mary Jane (Mrs. Madison Meador), Lucia Francis, Flora Ann.
A.B. Some of these children were born at the Neosho Mission and were the first white
children born in what is now the state of Kansas. 



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