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To Save on Time I've desided to write up the Biographical on Benton Pixley.
Rev. Benton Pixley was one of the very active missionaries that came to Harmony in 1821. He was one of the first to learn the Osage Language, and make use of it in his work. He was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts July 27, 1783. Served as principal of the Montpelier, Vermont Academy. Was ordained April 19, 1816, served as pastor of the Congragational church at Williamstown, Vermont, from 1816 until 1821, when he joined the mission family organized for the Harmony Mission.He worked among the Osage at Haremony until part of the tribe moved to the Neosho river, and he followed them and established the Neosho Misson near the present town of Shaw in Neosho county, Kansas. After a controversy with the Indian agent and some of the Osage he left there in 1829 and located near Independence Missouri where he preached for the white people. He was released from the Missionary work January 31, 1831, and is said to have died at Independence, Missouri, April 11, 1835. He was married to Lucia F. Howell August 27, 1812. The wee the parents of six children: Harriett Newell, Levi Parsons, Mary Jane (Mrs. Madison Meador), Lucia Francis, Flora Ann. A.B. Some of these children were born at the Neosho Mission and were the first white children born in what is now the state of Kansas.
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