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Name: SMITH, John (Dr.)
Birth Date: 1853
Death Date: 11 May 1877 Kagei, dysentery
First Date: 1876
Last Date: 1877
Profession: Medical missionary
Area: Nyanza
Book Reference: CMS
General Information:
CMS 1876 - Age 23. Of Liverpool. MB, CM Edinburgh. The friend and fellow-worker of Mackay in Ragged Schools etc. in Edinburgh. 1876, May 25 to Eastern Equatorial Africa - Nyanza - Mission as Medical Missionary. 1877, May 11 died at Kagei. "My noble and good brother is taken from us, so gentle and kind, and a capital physician; I shall never look on his like again," Memoir of Mackay by his sister, p. 47. Service 1 year.