Note 58 — Front matter

Rev. William Hamilton and Rev. Samuel McCleary Irvin, Presbyterian missionaries to the Iowa and Sauk and Fox Indians located near the mouth of the Great Nemaha river. They established what was known as the Ioway and Sac Mission Press at their station in 1848, issuing therefrom several volumes now of great rarity including An Ioway Grammar and The Ioway Primer, the latter in two editions. (See illustration). For a complete list of their writings see Pilling, Bibliography of the Siouan Languages, p. 31 et seq. There is an autobiography of Hamilton in Nebraska State Historical Society Reports, Vol. I, 1885, first series.