Adirondack Life

Solitary Man

he search for a “colporter missionary for the Adirondack Mountains” was advertised in Baptist newspapers as far west as Chicago in June 1904. Placed on behalf of the American Baptist Publication Society by the Lake George and the Essex and Champlain Baptist associations, the ad called for a man who understood horses, was “robust in health;

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