MUSKHOGEAN LANGUAGES. 



57 



Loughridge (R. M.) ami others — Cou- 

 tiniKMl. 



[ ] Opniivkv liera, ] Cauc 



coyvte. i The jiospcl accordiii;i; to i 

 John, I traushiteil ] from the original 

 Greek | iuto the Muskokco language, | 

 New York: \ American Bible Society, 

 I instituted in the year MDCCCXVI. 

 I 1875. 



Title Tcrso blank 1 1. text in Mnskokoc pp. 

 3-73, 103. 



Copies seen : Congress, Eamos, rilling, 

 Powell . 



Robert MoGill LongUridge, D. D., was born 

 at Lavirensville, S. C, December 24, 1809. His 

 fatber, James Loughridge, was a native of the 

 north of Ireland, and his mother, Deborah Ann 

 McGill, a native of South (,'arolina. "When ho 

 was fourteen years of ago his fatlier moved to 

 Alabama. When twoutyono years of ago, 

 having determined to enter the miuistrj', after 

 a few months' study under his pastor, be en- 

 tered the Mesopotamia (Ala.) Academy, and 

 four years afterwards (November, 1834) Miami 

 University, at Oxford, Ohio, from which ho was 

 graduated in 1837. He then spent one year at the 

 Theological Serainarj- at Princeton, N. J., and 

 two years in private stiidj' under his pastor, at 

 lilu taw, Ala., being licensed to preach April 9, 

 1H41. 



Having been selected by the Presbyterian 

 Hoard of Foreign Missions to visit the Creeks 

 .and to ascertain their attitude toward the min- 

 istration of the gospel .amongst them, on Nov- 

 vomber 2, 1811, he started for the Indian Terri- 

 tory, and there made arrangements for teaching 

 and prcacliing among the Creeks, after which 

 he returned to ALabama. On the 15th of Octo- 

 ber, 1842, he was ordained to the full work of the 

 ministri' as a missionarj' to the Creek Indians. 

 On the 5th of February, 1813, he arrived with 

 bis wife at the Verdigris Landing, and imme- 

 diately est.ablished a school at the town of 

 Kowetah. The Kowetah Boarding-School be- 

 came very popular and gradually increased in 

 numbers, until finally it was not onlj' itself en- 

 larged, hut the Tullahasseo Manual Labor 

 School was established, of whicli ]\Ir. Lough- 

 ridge was made superintendent. The Tulla- 

 h.assee school continued in a very prosperous 

 condition untiljuly 10, 18G1, when it w.as sud- 

 denly- suspended because of the w:ir between 

 • the States. The Kowet.ah school was also 

 brought to a close and never .again opened. 

 Mr. Loughridge tliereupon moved to the Chero- 

 kee Xation, and subsequently to Texas, where 

 lor aoveriil years he was eng.iged in the min- 

 istry. 



In December, ISSO, Mr. Loughridge and his 

 wife were reappointed by the Foreign Board as 

 missionaries to the Creek Indians in the Indian 

 Territory. The Tullaliassee Boarding-School 

 building having accidentally been burned, tlio 



Loughridge (R. M. ) — Continued. 



Nation determined to rebuild on a larger scale, 

 and to locate it at AVoalaka. Accordingly a 

 lai'ge brick buihUng was erected and placed 

 under the care of the I'resbytoiian Board of 

 Foreign Mi.ssions. Mr. Loughiidge was ap- 

 pointed superintendent, and opened tlic school 

 with the full number of one hundred pupils in 

 November, 1882. After two years' service in 

 that capacity he resigned, and has since de- 

 voted himself to preaching in various places 

 among tlic people and to the preparation of 

 books in the Creek or Muskoki language. 



Ludewig (Hermann Ernst). The | litera- 

 ture I of I American aboriginal lan- 

 guages. I By 1 Hermann E. Ludewig. | 

 Witli additions and corrections | by 

 professor Wm. W. Turner. | Edited by- 

 Nicolas Triibner. | 



London : i Triibner and co., GO, Pater- 

 noster row. I MDCCCLVIII [1858]. 



Half title " Triibner's bihliotheca glottiua I " 

 verso blank 1 1. title as above verso printer ' 

 1 1. pp. v-viii, contents verso blank 1 1. editor's 

 advertisement pp. is-xii, biographical memoir 

 pp. xiii-xiv, introductory pp. xv-\xiv, text 

 pp. 1-24G, index pp. 247-250, errata pp. 257-258, 

 8'. Arranged alphabetically l)y f.arailies. Ad- 

 denda by Wm. W. Turner and Nicolas Triib- 

 ner, pp. 210-246. 



Contains ali.st of grammars and vocabularies, 

 and among others of the following peoples ; 

 Chickasaw, p. 39; Choctaw, pp. 46,218; Creek 

 orMuskohgee.pp. 127, 232; Hitchiteo, p. 81; 

 Seminoles, pp. 169, 238. 



Co2>ies seen : Congress, Earaes, Pilling. 



At the Fischer s.ale a copy. No. 990, brought 

 5s. Gd. ; at the Field sale. No. 1403, $2.63 ; at the 

 Squier sale. No. 699, $2.62 ; another copy. No. 

 1906, $2.38. Priced by Leclerc, 1878, No. 2075, 

 15 fr. The Pinart copy, No. 565, sold for 25 fr., 

 and the Murphy copy. No. 1540, for $2.50. Priced 

 by Clarke, 1880, No. 6751, $4 ; by Ivoehler, 10 1*1. 



Dr. Ludewig has himself so fully detailed the 

 plan and purport of this work that little more 

 remains for me to add beyond the mere state- 

 ment of the origin of mj- connection with the 

 publication, and the mention of such additions 

 for which I am alone responsible, and which, 

 during its progress through the press, luivo 

 srradually accumulated to about one-sixth of 

 the whole. This is but an act of Justice to the 

 memory of Dr. Ludewig; bec.auseat the timeof 

 his death, in December, IS.'te, no more than 172 

 pages wore printed off, and these constitute the 

 only portion of the work which had the benefit 

 of his v,alu.ablo personal and tin.al revision. 



Similarity of pursuits led, during my stay in 

 New York in 1855, to an intimacy with Dr. 

 Ludewig, during which ho mentioned that he, 

 like myself, I:ad been making bibliographical 

 memoranda for years of all books which serve 

 to illustrate the history of spoken language. 



