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Horden, John
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1828 - 1893
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First Bishop of Moosonee.
John Horden was born in Exeter, England in 1828, and educated at St. John's School. In 1851, he married Elizabeth Oak, and the couple had six children. He was a missionary for the Church Missionary Society at Moose Fort, Ontario from 1851 to 1872, and was ordained both deacon and priest in 1852. He was consecrated Bishop of Moosonee in 1872, and published A grammar of the Cree language, as spoken by the Cree Indians of North America in 1881. He passed away in Moose Factory, Ontario 1893.