James Osborne Arthur
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About James Osborne Arthur
Lived 1887 – 1971 (aged 83–84).
Reverend James Osborne Arthur, Sr. (1887–1971) and his wife Katherine Arthur (1883–1960) were missionaries for the Reformed Church of America. While missionaries they photographed Native Americans in the American Southwest.
He was at the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska in 1913 and among the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apaches in the Whitetail section of the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico from 1914 to 1919. Their images were inherited by their granddaughter, Barbara Jane Arthur Jacobs, and were donated to the National Museum of the American Indian by Barbara Jacobs and her son Dr. James A. Jacobs in 2007.
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James Osborne Arthur was born in 1887.
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James Osborne Arthur died in 1971.
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