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Cyrus Byington

McCurtain County
Location: in Eagletown Cemetery north of US-70
Topics: Arts; Education; Religion/Philosophy; Social/Cultural; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Byington established Stockbridge Mission at Eagletown in 1834 where he produced the Dictionary of the Choctaw Language. The federal government finally published the grammar book in 1915. It is recognized as one of the greatest contributions to the field of American ethnology.


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