John And Edith Kilbuck
John Henry Kilbuck (May 15, 1861 – 1922) — sometimes spelled Killbuck — and his wife, Edith Kilbuck (née Romig; April 16, 1865 – 1933), were Moravian missionaries in southwestern Alaska in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. John H. Kilbuck was the first Lenape to be ordained as a Moravian minister. They served the Yupik people and made their language that of the Moravian Church in their area.
John was the great-grandson of the Delaware (Lenape) chief Gelelemend, who signed the Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778), the first American Indian treaty with the recently declared United States. Edith was the daughter and grand-daughter of Moravian missionaries in Kansas.
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