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1817-1892 Adoniram Judson Chaplin Baptist Pastor     MA/NY Adoniram Judson Chaplin was born in Danvers, MA, 15 February 1817, to Marcia O’Brien and Jeremiah Chaplin, the first president of Maine Literary and Theological Institute (now Colby College). He was the first child born to this couple and was followed by four sisters and one brother, Jeremiah […]

1814-1855 Adoniram Judson Copeland Congregational Minister    ME/IL We have discovered only two notations on this first namesake for Adoniram Judson, Jr., and they only tease us to know more about this pioneer to Illinois. Adoniram Judson Copeland was born in Brewer, March, 1814. After graduation [from Bowdoin College] he entered the Theological Seminary in Bangor