A. J. Hunsacker

The fourth general Missionary, and the first to bear the commission of the Baptist Convention of the North Pacific Coast, successor of the Baptist Missionary and Education Society, was Rev. A. J. Hunsacker.  He was a Scotch Englishman, born in Illinois in January, 1834; cane to Oregon with his parents in 1847; was converted in 1853; licensed in 1869, and ordained in 1871.  After several successful pastorates, he was called into the general work in 1879, and continued in it for four-and-one-half years, becoming the second general missionary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society for the North Pacific Coast in October, 1881, when that society and the Convention entered into co-operation.  brother Hunsacker was among the most influential men in planning and carrying forward our mission work in those early days, and stands second to no other general missionary in laying foundations upon which his successors could erect the larger structure of denominational growth.

Baker, J.C. (1912) -- Baptist History of the North Pacific Coast:  Philadelphia, American Baptist Publication Society, p. 449.

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