Lovell Ingalls

Lovell Ingalls (1808 – 5 March 1856)[1][2] was a ninetheenth century American missionary and a member of the American Baptist Mission to Burma.[3] He was married to Marilla Baker Ingalls.[4]

History

Ordained in 1837, Lovell Ingalls spent 17 years as a missionary, working alongside noted missionary Adoniram Judson, before returning to the U.S. following the death of his first wife, Marcia Dawes Ingalls.[5][2] He kept a diary, which later was published and is a primary source of information about missionary work of that era.[6] While in America he met Marilla Baker, who had long been interested in foreign missions. The couple married and went to Myanmar in 1851. Ingalls died in 1856, survived by his wife and Amelia, his daughter from his first marriage. [6] Marilla Baker brought the child to America for her education, and returned to continue her work as a missionary in Burma, where she died in 1902. Amelia Lovell remained in America, where she married, had children, and died in 1903.[7]

His correspondence is part of the International Ministries - Missionary Correspondence Collection of the American Baptist Historical Society Archives, available at Mercer University.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Marilla Baker Ingalls". Baptist Bible Tribune. 2011-10-25. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ingalls, Lovell (1808-1856) - American Baptist Historical Society". libraries.mercer.edu. Retrieved 2026-06-06.
  3. ↑ "Ingalls, Marilla Baker (1828-1902) | History of Missiology". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-20.
  4. ↑ Anderson, Gerald H. (1999). "Ingalls, Marilla Baker". Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 318. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8. Retrieved 4 June 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ↑ Kaloyanides, Alexandra (July 2016). ""Show Us Your God": Marilla Baker Ingalls and the Power of Religious Objects in Nineteenth-Century Burma". Religions. 7 (7): 81. doi:10.3390/rel7070081. ISSN 2077-1444.
  6. 1 2 "Online Burma Library: The Journal of Lovell Ingalls, 1838-1839".
  7. ↑ Personal Notes: Mrs. Amanda Lovell Bogue - Baptist Missionary Magazine. American Baptist Missionary Union. February 1904. p. 67.
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