Moses Merrill Mission and Oto Village - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Moses Merrill Mission and Oto Village - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Moses Merrill Mission, also known as the Oto Mission, was located about eight miles west of Bellevue, Nebraska. It was built and occupied by Moses and Eliza Wilcox Merrill, the first missionaries resident in Nebraska. The first building was part of facilities built in 1835 when the United States Government removed the Otoe about eight miles southwest of Bellevue.Federal Writers Project. (1939) Nebraska: A guide to the Cornhusker state, Nebraska State Historical Society. pp. 268-269. Merrill's goal was to convert the local Otoe tribe to Christianity; he had learned the language and translated the Bible and some hymns into Otoe. Read more on Wikipedia
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