Adoniram Judson - American Baptist missionary who labored almost 40 years in Burma (now called Myanmar).
- born August 9 1788 in Malden, Massachusetts
- son of a Congregational minister
- graduate of Rhode Island College (now Brown University)
- participates in formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- commissioned as a foreign missionary by the Congregational Church
- married Ann Hasseltine February 5, 1812
- converted to Baptist views and baptized in Calcutta, India September 6, 1812
- moved to Burma in 1813
- imprisoned for 21 months during war between England and Burma
- wife Ann died in Amherst, Burma on October 24, 1826
- completed translating Burmese Bible in 1834
- married Sarah Hall Boardman, widow of fellow missionary George Boardman, April 1834
- wife Sarah died in St. Helena, Burma September 1, 1845
- married writer Emily Chubbuck June 2, 1846
- died and buried at sea in the Bay of Bengal April 12 1850
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