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This is the day that … Edward McKendree Bounds was born in 1835, in a small log cabin in Missouri, USA.
His father was a leading figure in “the social, economic and religious fibre of the town” … but he died when Edward was in his mid-teens.
After studying law, 21 year-old Edward practised for three years [...]

This is the day that … John Mason Peck set out on his missionary tour to St Louis, Illinois.
It was 1817 … and St Louis was “a rough river town with a few clusters of houses. A Christian witness was almost unknown.”
Peck had been born 27 years earlier (on 21 October, 1798) in Connecticut. Brought [...]