Sheldon Jackson
Sheldon Jackson
Sheldon Jacksonwas a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and political leader. During this career he travelled about one million milesand established more than one hundred missions and churches, mostly in the Western United States. He is best remembered for his extensive work in Colorado and thereater during the final quarter of the 19th century in the massive, rugged, and remote Alaska Territory, which in 1959 would become the 49th U.S. state of Alaska, and his efforts to suppress Native American languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
CountryUnited States of America
The training of the schools should be extended to the heart as well as the mind and hand.
The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.
Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.
I must work the works of Him Who sent me while it is yet day.