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Return to: Rev. Sheldon Jackson - In 1884, 12 years after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia, a Presbyterian minister named Sheldon Jackson offered himself and was selected as Alaska's General Agent of Education.

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Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D., LL.D., Vice President Alaska Geographic Society, May 15, 1899

Title taken from image. Image: Photo by La Roche, Seattle. Alaska State Library - Historical Collections.

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