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Justin Perkins (
Holyoke, Massachusetts,
March 5,
1805-
Chicopee, Massachusetts,
December 31,
1869) was an
American Presbyterian missionary and
linguist. He was the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran, and he became known for his work among the people there as an "apostle to
Persia".
Biography
He was born in the Ireland Parish of West
Springfield, Massachusetts, in an area now within the city of
Holyoke, Massachusetts. He was the son of William Perkins and Judith Clough Perkins, and a descendant of a John Perkins who arrived in Massachusetts in 1631 and eventually settled in
Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1633. He spent his early years on the farm. At the age of eighteen, he'd a
religious experience and enrolled at the Westfield Academy. He then spent a year teaching at the
Amherst Academy, two years studying at the
Andover Theological Seminary, and one year as a tutor at Amherst College, before being
ordained a
Presbyterian minister in the summer of 1833. At roughly the same time, on July 21, 1833, he married Charlotte Bass of
Middlebury, Vermont, with whom he'd eventually have seven children. Six of those children would die in Persia, and the only survivor, Judith, would die shortly after returning to the United States.
In Persia
In September, 1833, he set sail for Persia as a missionary for the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, his specific appointment being for the remaining members of the
Assyrian Church of the East in northwestern Persia.. Perkins was taught by Qasha Auraham and Mar Yohannan, the latter the Assyrian Church of the East bishop of Urmia. Mar Yohannan visited the USA with Perkins in 1843.. Perkins' mission there would continue for 35 years. He then began preaching, generally with the full consent of the local Assyrian church clergy, and often in their churches. He also established a boy's school there, which was the first school to use the
learning by teaching method in central Asia. He shortly followed this with several other schools for boys and girls in the surrounding villages, and, later, at the express request of the Muslim government, established similar schools for the Muslim population.
(1841), and Missionary Life in Persia
(1861).
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