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3 unusual facts about Samuel Wells Williams


Samuel Wells Williams

On the June 15, 1833, and still in his twenties, he sailed for China to take charge of the printing press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Guangdong, China.

Around 1875, he completed a translation of the Book of Genesis and the Gospel of Matthew into Japanese, but the manuscripts were lost in a fire before they could be published.

Samuel Williams

Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884), linguist, missionary and Sinologist from the United States



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