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Founded 1854 Closed 1854
Previous Mission Names
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Mission Summary
Elam Luddington, Levi Savage Jr., Chancy West, and Benjamin F. Dewey were called at a special conference held 28 and 29 August 1852 to serve in China, Siam, Australia, and India. Of the four men called to Siam, only Elam Luddington actually served in the country. The others spent several months laboring in India and Burma before returning home. Elder Luddington served four months in Bangkok before leaving for Hong Kong and then back to California. He arrived home in Utah in 1855.
Sources
Siam Mission history, 1852-1855, Church History Library.
Chronological history of the mission containing information about missionaries, members, and units, compiled from mission reports, journals, news articles, and other documents.
Reed B. Haslam,
The Light Breaks on Southeast Asia (Sandy, Utah: HTown Publishing, 2012).
R. Lanier Britsch,
From the Far East: The History of the Latter-day Saints in Asia, 1851-1996 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998), 32-33.
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