About Stephen Johnson
Lived 1803 – 1886 (aged 82–83). Stephen Johnson was an American missionary.
Stephen Johnson (Chinese 詹思文 or 杨顺) (Griswold, Connecticut, 15 April 1803-Gouverneur, New York, 1886) was an American Presbyterian missionary in China. He graduated Amherst College in 1827, then Auburn Theological Seminary 1829-1832. In 1847 he founded the first Christian mission in Fuzhou where he remained till 1853 when he returned to America.
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American missionary
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Stephen Johnson was born on 15 April 1803 in Massachusetts.
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Stephen Johnson died in 1886.
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Stephen Johnson was a missionary.
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Stephen Johnson was American.
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